american photographer slim aarons was best known for shooting beautiful people in beautiful places doing beautiful things. his contrived, albeit beautiful, portraiture provide romanticized viewings of the rich and famous in settings like snowmass, st. tropez, marbella, biarritz, and bermuda. his chichi 1974 book called A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life remains popular among people of all walks of life. for more slim aarons photographs jump over to Photographers Gallery.
Phillipe, Duc De Magenta et Marquis De MacMahon outside Chateau Sully in Autun with fiancee Amelie Drummond, 1968
a garden party in Miami in 1970
A Thomas Taylor and Bing Crosby on the Pebble Beach golf course in 1977
Hugh Hefner with his Bunnies at the Playboy Key Club in Chicago
British photographer Lord Lichfield with Marina Lante della Rovere, Ines Torlonia, Signoria Gancia, in Porto Ercole, Italy in 1970
Princess Bianca at her Gstaad chalet, 1985.
A party at the Kaufmann house in Palm Springs, 1970
Douglas Fairbanks Junior, Oscar de la Renta, and standing behind him Emilio Pucci. On the other side of the table T Reed Vreeland stands behind the host in the red shirt, Pat de Cicco. Acapulco, 1966****
*This photograph is a reproduction of the Renoir painting Luncheon of the Boating Party: see it here.
thanks for the tip, BW!
William F. Buckley near Gstaad with John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977
*This photograph is a reproduction of the Renoir painting Luncheon of the Boating Party: see it here.
thanks for the tip, BW!
W. Clifford Klenk with wife Hope
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971
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Mies is german not american
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