Poolside With Slim Aarons

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Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. In a career that spanned six decades, Aarons’ camera lens moved from soldiers to stars and celebrities.

As an added flourish, there was Slim’s fixation on the tiny design elements that would give each frame an extra layer of texture, color, nuance. If you look at a beach scene or a pool scene or a party, and there’s somebody in a red bathing suit or a red sweater who has their back to you, that’s probably her—there to add color,” explains Mary.

Beautiful book with beautiful pictures of the good life and of a pastime when people weren't as vulgar or classless. This is a more intimate peek into very private lives, to which Slim Aarons was given unprecedented access in the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties.

According to those who worked with him and knew him best, Slim knew his place as a documentarian, a chronicler—albeit, at times, one skilled in artful interventions. The tree is inexplicably anchored to the bottom of the pool, and at the highest point of the tree is a Christmas star, glinting in the California sun. 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.Poolside Gossip is Slim Aarons’s iconic 1970 photograph of California society women enjoying a leisurely day by the pool. Several documentary interviewees postulate that if Aarons's true origins had been known, his career would have been unlikely to succeed within the restricted world of celebrity and WASP privilege his photography glamorized. Young Slim, evidently not knowing what had become of either parent, had been raised at different times by an aunt in the tristate area, an orphanage, and with his grandmother and cousins in New Hampshire. It’s a book that provides a glimpse into times past- the 60s and 70s when people sat by pools baking in the sun, drinking beautiful cocktails and eating scrumptious food- with amazingly fit bodies and no sunburn.

At the start of World War II, he enlisted in the Army, became a photographer for Yank magazine, and often found himself behind the wheel of a jeep, shuttling photojournalists from Life to the front.My son asked me if I’d heard of the photographer Slim Aarons and I remembered looking at his photographs of beautiful people by beautiful pools 40 years ago - so I looked him up at the library and found this book focused on just that- beautiful people by beautiful pools. Lita Baron approaches on the right Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Helen Dzo Dzo. Inevitably, his new companions, pleased at how flattering they appeared when Slim’s pictures were published, would make introductions for him to their friends: a studio head, a Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac.