A WONDERFUL TIME
AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE GOOD LIFE
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons: A WONDERFUL TIME. AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE GOOD LIFE. New York: Haper & Row, 1974. First edition. Small folio. Blue cloth stamped in gold. Photographically printed dust jacket. Unpaged. Color illustrations. Textblock edge lightly mottled. Dust jacket has two, short closed tears, one at the spine crown and the other on the rear panel. A remarkably well-preserved copy that has neither gift inscriptions nor price-clipped. Rare thus. A very good or better copy. 10.5 x 13.5 hardcover book with color photographs of the Good Life. From the dust jacket:"Captures magnificently the life of America's elite from coast to coast, in Bermuda, the Caribbean, and Acapulco . . . Drawing from thousands of pictures taken since World War II on assignments for Holiday, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Vogue, Travel & Leisure -- many never published before -- with a narrative of is experiences and impressions while photographing American aristocrats on their estates and at play at their favorite resorts."
Slim Aarons (1916 - 2006) -- in his PDN obituary Daryl Lang wrote, "The world of Aarons's photographs, where wealthy people lounge poolside, looking effortlessly beautiful, became an iconic look often mimicked in advertising." Aaron's work appeared in Life, Town & Country and Holiday magazines. He never used a stylist, or a makeup artist.
Aarons made his career out of what he called "photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." "I knew everyone," he said in an interview with The (London) Independent in 2002. "They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them." Alfred Hitchcock's film, Rear Window, whose main character is a photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, is set in an apartment reputed to be based on Aarons's apartment.
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