Slim Aarons: Once Upon a Time | 
 enlarge | Author: Slim Aarons
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 133600
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 10.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0810946033
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2092
EAN: 9780810946033
ASIN: 0810946033
Publication Date: December 1, 2003
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Condition: Brand new book - May have a remainder mark.
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Book Description
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons has established his place in the pantheon of great postwar photographers. It was Aarons who perfected, if not invented, the environmental portrait while photographing the international elite in their exclusive playgrounds during the jet-set decades of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, carrying out his self-described mission: to document "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." This luxurious book is the ultimate insider's view of the lifestyles of the wealthy, privileged, and powerful. Aarons's first book in nearly 30 years (his long-out-of-print A Wonderful Time is a collector's item fetching more than $1,000 a copy) is an eagerly anticipated publishing event. Presenting Hollywood royalty, European aristocracy, the grande dames of high society, captains of industry, media moguls, statesmen, and luminaries of various stripes, across a vast geography of opulent and glamorous settings, Slim Aarons's photographs-some 250 of which are included here-define the Beautiful People and document a lost era of style, grace, and grandeur.
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Reveries February 10, 2006
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
ONCE UPON A TIME is an apropos title for this photomontage of a book. Slim Aarons has the enviable job as a photographer of capturing the rich and famous in their haunts around the world. Now that doesn't seem like a worthy topic for a book, especially now that the factions between the rich and not rich are taking a lot of space in the media. But taking this book as a memento of a time lost, a time when leisure meant beautiful places, elegant food and drink and fashion, passages to spas such as Portofino just for the beauty of the views, turning the pages of this book with that state of mind results in some lovely reveries of how things used to be.
Slim Aarons followed the genteel folk around the globe and while his 'portraits' are not the usual stiff and staid formats, his glimpses of people within the environs is unparalleled. For many the views of the scenery, landscapes, seascapes, wondrous architecture, the concert halls, all captured in alluring light, will be the highlight of this volume. The overall feeling of browsing through Aarons' memoir-like photographs is one of traveling back in time, almost with a fairytale like imagery.
For armchair historians, sociologists, and lovers of foreign places this book will satisfy. Though the locales depicted herein still exist (for the most part) they were never as romantically inclined as Aarons makes them. Grady Harp, February 06
 Rehash of previous work January 3, 2006
Country Girl (Long Valley, NJ United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was so disappointed. This book is about 80% material that was previously published in a much classier book, A Wonderful Time. Readers lucky enough to have the earlier book should not waste their money on this rehash.
slim aarons: once upon a time September 2, 2005
Ann G. Caffrey (morro bay, ca, usa)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Enjoyable reprint which gives a look at the charms, lifestyle, beauties and characters of about a half century ago..looks as if some of the photos from the original edition were not included, but not sure. Aarons is a bold and creative photographer, that's for sure. Thanks.
 a WASPs nest of photos! May 18, 2005
DanR (Boise ID)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very nice, a bit WASP heavy but what do you expect for the time? A fun look into a world gone by.
Wow! Was I born too late? May 12, 2004
C. J. Allen (Orefield, PA USA)
13 out of 28 found this review helpful
Mr. Aarons...what a treasure! I won't bother with many words...just...wow is enough!
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