Once Upon A Time

Slim Aarons
9780810946033
Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time

Slim Aarons
9780810946033
Publisher Harry N. Abrams 2003
Edition Hardcover , 240 pages
Genres Fashion photography , Portrait photography , Landscape photography
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It was Slim Aarons who perfected, if not invented, the environmental portrait while photographing the international elite in their exclusive playgrounds during the postwar heyday of the jet-set: his self-described mission, to document attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places. This book is the ultimate insider’s view of the lifestyles of the wealthy, privileged, and powerful.

From the end of World War II through the 1980s, Aarons photographed the rich and famous, the beautiful and the celebrated. His postwar portraits form a virtual genealogy of wealth, privilege, and talent – in al its manifestations: Hollywood royalty, European aristocracy, the grande dames of high society, captains of industry, media moguls, statesmen, and stars of every sort. Though upholding the glamorous image of wealth, power, talent, and beauty, he saw himself as a journalist whose duty it was to inform, and this led him to develop the environmental portrait – photographing his subjects at home, at work, at play, and mingling with each other. Indeed his subjects are almost always shown in a setting synonymous with their station in life. And in a host of memorable portraits, across a vast geography of resorts, spas, estates, palaces, elegant apartments, and other glamorous settings, Slim Aarons’s photographs define that legendary class known as the Beautiful People and documents a lost era of style, grace, and the good life.

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Book title Once Upon A Time
Photographer Slim Aarons
ISBN 13 9780810946033 /
Publisher Harry N. Abrams
Publish year 2003
Genre Fashion photography Portrait photography Landscape photography
Book format Hardcover
Pages 240 pages

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