Style guru
George Allen ‘Slim’ Aarons was a photographer with style. He dressed with style, he styled his shoots beautifully and his images of high society simply ooze style. So, it’s incredibly apt that the latest book of his work is named Style. Aarons, who died in 2006, actually served as a war photographer during World War II when he was in the US military. With typical Aarons wit, he’s on record as saying that shooting combat images taught him the only beach worth landing on was ‘decorated with beautiful, semi-nude girls tanning in a tranquil sun.’
Throughout the 1950s Aarons gained a reputation as a photographer, and a man, who could be trusted. He was welcomed into the inner circles of Hollywood and high society in the US and Europe. His images from the mid-1950s onwards dominate the book and allow us to get a privileged look at the lives and loves of the jet-set, movie stars and high society.
The introduction to the tome has been
