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The Christmas list
Slim Aarons: A Place in the Sun by Christopher Sweet (Editor), Slim Aarons
Ah, the beautiful people! Their faces and circumstances change, individually and historically, but they seem always to be with us. Aarons’ images constitute the ultimate glamour photography. Presented by location, from Monaco to Europe, Africa, Bermuda, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the U.S., they show the rich and famous at play. Aarons never used a stylist, a makeup artist, or anything but natural light (if you were rich, famous, and ugly, you stayed away from the places Aarons photographed), and since the settings encouraged swimwear, it is astonishing how beautiful these people were. Astonishing, too, is the electric intensity of the colors, even when visual details are smudged by distance and softened focus. They don’t take pictures like this anymore.
$47.25 http://www.amazon.com/ Publisher: “Harry N. Abrams, Inc.” (December 1, 2005)