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Poolside with Slim Aarons
Like its predecessors, Once Upon a Time and A Place in the Sun, Poolside with Slim Aarons offers images of jet-setters and the wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. Yet this new collection of stunning photographs of the rich and well-connected “doing attractive things” in their favorite playgrounds has a new twist.
The main character is pools and everything that goes with them—magnificent, suntanned bodies; well-oiled skin; bikini-clad women; yachts; summer cocktails; sumptuous buffets; spectacular locations; and most of all: fun. Poolside is not so much a Who’s Who of society, aristocracy, and celebrity—although C. Z. Guest, Lilly Pulitzer, Cheryl Tiegs, Peter Beard, and many who have appeared in the previous books are here—as it is about leisure time and how the rich make use of it. This is a more intimate peek into very private lives, to which Slim Aarons was given unprecedented access in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties.
From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury, and grandeur prevail.
Manufacturer: Abrams Books
Price Range: $30.00 - $75.00
 Poolside with Slim Aarons
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| User Reviews |  | poolside fun
rating: 3
fun book with loads of great shots. Has shots of my hometown even making it tastier to me.
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Very disappointed
rating: 1
I waited for this book and it finally went on sale, but what a disappointment it was. It is just big pictures. I thought there would be more of a story with each picture, but nothing. Don't waste your money.
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A peek into the jet-set pool set
rating: 4
A superb coffee-table photo book that should be in every home that can boast an in-ground swimming pool. While the images show American and European jetsetters at poolside during the 1950s to the 1990s, it does inspire us slugs in the middle class to work to achieve that oh-so ethereal (in-ground) swimming-pool lifestyle that typifies having "made it" in the modern age. Pour yourself a martini and then sit by the pool as you enjoy this book. You don't have to just dream it. Go ahead--live it. Just ask the late actor Burt Lancaster's character in the 1968 film "The Swimmer". Then you, too, can swim home.
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SINGULAR AARONS
rating: 3
Slim Aarons was given rare access to the super rich and he captures them perfectly in all their shallow excess: all vacuous looks and gorgeous scenery. His images are famous of course, as much for the famous people as for the art of photography. This book is not to the level of, The Place in the Sun, mainly because, as that book was comprehensive the one is..well..about being poolside with the Euro trash and American trust fund baby's. Personally, I kinda like the voyeurism his images provide, and it makes you feel glad, even with all their wealth and jet setting lives, that you are not one of them; to look back on your life and know that all you did was spend money and jet set would be pathetic indeed. Overall, good book, interesting text and quality images, but the other book on Aarons is better.
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Trading on a good reputation....
rating: 2
This book is unfortunately not as enjoyable as other collections of his photos and really quite boring. Whereas Once Upon A Time and A Place In The Sun evoked an era and gave you either a voyeuristic peek into the lives of old money,some great photography, or both, this book gives very little of either. I was hoping for equally compelling and thematically consistent imagery here but unfortunately the title misses the mark. I wish the editor/publisher had been more discriminating.
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