Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time is a luxurious collection of iconic photography capturing the glamorous world of the international elite during the jet-set decades of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.
Across some 250 photographs, Slim Aarons takes readers inside a vanished world of private estates, magnificent pools and gardens, yachts, parties, and exclusive resorts, documenting the wealthy, privileged, and powerful at play.
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons has earned his place among the great postwar photographers. He perfected, if not invented, the environmental portrait while photographing the international elite in their own surroundings, carrying out his famously self-described mission to document "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." The result is an extraordinary record of midcentury style, fashion, travel, architecture, and society.
Join the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. Visit novelist Elizabeth Bowen at Bowen's Court, her ancestral home in County Cork, Ireland. Jump on a speedboat with actor George Hamilton and his beautiful friends. Pulitzer, Vanderbilt, Hearst, and Ford are just some of the celebrated names who populate Aarons's remarkable world.
Hollywood royalty, European aristocracy, grandes dames of high society, captains of industry, media moguls, and statesmen appear against a sweeping backdrop of fabulous homes, boats, pools, gardens, and glamorous destinations. Together, these photographs define the legendary class known as the Beautiful People and preserve a lost era of style, grace, privilege, and grandeur.
Both a classic Slim Aarons volume and a spectacular coffee-table book, Once Upon a Time is made for displaying, collecting, and gifting. An irresistible visual escape for lovers of photography, fashion, travel, interiors, and midcentury style, it offers the ultimate insider's view of how the jet set lived, dressed, entertained, and played.
