Slim Aarons

Photographs of Mid-Century High Society

Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was a New York–born photographer who called his subject “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.” He started as an Army photographer and combat photographer during World War II, then spent decades shooting socialites and celebrities in Palm Beach, Palm Springs, and the Riviera. His best-known image is Poolside Gossip, taken in 1970 at the Kaufmann Desert House. Getty Images bought his archive in 1997.