Slim Aarons’s Chlorine Dreams
Some call them shallow. Others call them the Leisure Class. But to us, the subjects in the late bon vivant's new volume of tanning, wading, floating, gossiping, diving, and imbibing jet-setters just makes us wish for bigger paychecks. Poolside with Slim Aarons (Abrams, $75, 240 pages, with a forward by William Norwich) is a lap dance of beautiful people dipping into their vast fortunes at luxurious resorts and private homes set beside and inside what Jed Clampett called the "see-ment pond."
Matthew Strmiska
November 14, 2007
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Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, Greece, 1961, above.
With locales ranging from Monaco to Mexico, and Italy and the Caribbean in between, Poolside with Slim Aarons is an extension of the affluent-fixated photographer’s prior publishing endeavors, A Privileged Life: Celebrating Wasp Style and A Place in the Sun. To many it may be pure fantasy, as most Wasps are pasty-white, out of shape, slightly inbred, dreadfully dull, and tip like they were living in the Depression era. But who doesn’t need the photographic equivalent of a tall glass of Pimm’s with a cucumber garnish during these slush-piled wintry months of discontent? —Steve Garbarino
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