For 50 years, he did just that, using his charm and charisma to coax the rich and beautiful to pose for him in elaborate settings that reflected their elite status. He would run across the most stylish and sophisticated women in the world, so of course, they would have their own ideas about how to pull themselves together. But now, some 15 years after his death, experts and audiences are revisiting and reinterpreting the photographer’s vast body of work. Waldron, who also works as a Getty curator, said that only 6,000 of the approximately 750,000 images have been digitized so far. In the winter of 1954, the attractive person doing the attractive thing in the attractive place was Lorita (or Rita), his new wife, formerly an assistant at Life, swimming beneath the Hollywood sign and a Christmas tree.

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The book presents the women who most influenced Aarons’s life and work—and the other remarkable personalities he photographed along the way, including Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy, Diana Vreeland, and Marilyn Monroe, all featured in unforgettable photographs. And while Aarons moved with ease through the society’s most exclusive circles, he retained his objectivity and remained “very grounded,” Waldron said.The book presents the women who most influenced Aarons’s life and work—and the other remarkable personalities he photographed along the way—including Audrey Hepburn, the Duchess of Windsor, Diana Vreeland, Esther Williams, Marianne Faithful, and Marlene Dietrich, all featured in unforgettable photographs. On the gram, you get what you give, and so it’s peculiar for the app to have had such an impact on a nonuser. Swanson on Swanson was the product of a literary quadrangle with all the emotional complexity—and sexual tension—of her immortal comeback vehicle, Sunset Boulevard. GALERIE PRINTS is delighted to present The Slim Aarons Collection Over 900 of his exquisite images now available to have as beautiful Open Edition or Limited Edition Estate Stamped Collectors prints. Faithfull and Jagger had attended an open-air performance by the Chieftains before a banquet at the castle, the Georgian estate of the Honourable Desmond Guinness, conservationist and author.

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Those holiday playgrounds where the old-monied set clinked Champagne glasses with oligarchs of modern industry and pretty young things with Hollywood stars in their eyes. Painter and sculptor Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman, grandniece of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum, Palm Beach, 1964. But while Aarons did some conventional fashion shoots in his early career, he eschewed the genre’s norms. If he had to arrange more than a few people from on high, he favoured using a bullhorn, if available, and could never resist jovially booming to all down below, ‘This is the voice of God! His sunny portraits of postwar affluence captured the habits and habitats of the elite—and of the wider stylish class, whose socialites commingled with bohemians and trendsetters.I have seen many of these photos over the years in various publications or references, but to have them all gathered in one location was spectacular! The photos also chart luxury fashion’s evolution through the decades, from the formality of the postwar years to 1990s patterned ski jackets. He was driven by a journalistic curiosity about how the world’s most privileged people lived, said Shawn Waldron, who co-wrote “Slim Aarons: Style.