SLIM AARONS Photographer Slim Aarons (right) on board a yacht off Capri, Italy, September 1968. #2926933
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Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons established his place in the Pantheon of great post-war 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 ranging from the ‘50s to the ‘90s, carrying out his self-described mission: to document “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.”
Slim Aarons worked mainly for lifestyle publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous after serving as a photographer for the US military magazine during World War II. His work has been included in the publications Town and Country, Holiday, Harper’s Bazaar, Venture, and LIFE. Slim Aarons is internationally known for the positive portrayals he gave to the people he photographed and was invited to high-society gatherings for exactly this reason. His subject matter covered American and European society as well as nobility and both minor and major stars of the day.
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Front Cover Image: The Lure of Lamu. The resort of Kiwayu Mlango wa Chanu in the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya, February 1987. The resort is run by Governors’ Camp of the Masai Mara. #101912743
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AERIAL MIAMI BEACH
ARTURO PANI’S VILLA
A helicopter carrying tourists hovers over the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, Florida, April 1972. #56419542
The swimming pool at Arturo Pani’s villa, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968. #77440421
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MONTE CARLO BEACH CLUB Guests around the pool at the Monte Carlo Beach Club, Monaco, August 1970. #95738220
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BAHAMAS SPEED WEEK
BEACH AT ST. TROPEZ
Gordon Butler’s Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray at the Bahamas Speed Week at the Oakes Course, Nassau, December 1963. #596326925
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977. #53397493
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ANTIGUA BEACH CLUB
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
The beach club at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies, 1960. #88655949
August 1982: Marina Fernandez de Cordova in Marbella with Prince Hubertus Hohenlohe. #3163539
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CAPRI BAY
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1958: Faraglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri. #3248972
BERMUDA IDYLL
CANNES WATERSPORTS
Mrs Frank McMahon and guests around the pool at her seaside home in Bermuda, 1977. #53438284
Holidaymakers water skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. #475371027
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CAPOTE’S HOUSE
GUESTS AT VILLA NIRVANA
American writer Truman Capote’s house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. #74319209
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978 #77550046
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CAPRI TAN
CONCA DEI MARINI
1968, A kneeling sunbather shows off her rings and pendant on a beach in Capri, Italy. #51246667
A bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984. #670809361
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FARAGLIONI ROCKS
HOTEL DU CAP-EDEN-ROC ROOFTOP
Faraglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri, August 1974. #56475765
Guests around the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1978. #483570127
HOTEL TAORMINA The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975. #670809329
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HOTEL DU PALAIS BIARRITZ
THE LURE OF LAMU
The curved beachside pool at the Hotel du Palais Biarritz, Biarritz, France, September 1985. #475371025
The resort of Kiwayu Mlango wa Chanu in the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya, February 1987. The resort is run by Governors’ Camp of the Masai Mara. #101912743
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FINDING A SPOT
FUNK IN TUSCANY
A sunbather at the seaside-style pool of Jacques Couelle’s home ‘Monte Mano’, on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, August 1973. #77440278
Marta Marzotta playing a James Brown album on an Italian Brionvega Radiofonograph RR126 stereo system, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969. #88155289
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PORTOFINO
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1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. #51246670
LA CONCHA CLIENTELE
ROQUEBRUNE-CAP-MARTIN
Guests at the La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. #77442067
The Monte-Carlo Beach Hôtel on the Pointe de la Vieille in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France, August 1981. #475371099
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MOTORBOATS IN ANTIBES
PORTOFINO HARBOUR
Motorboats moored on the coast near the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969. #483570365
The harbour in the Ligurian town of Portofino, August 1977. #56454462
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LAGUNA BEACH
PORTO ERCOLE WINDSURFING
Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. #89440730
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. #88048079
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ROVING STONE
TULLIO ABBATE
February 1989: British rock star Mick Jagger holidays on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. #3248994
Tullio Abbate, of Abbate Boats, at the back of yacht as it is moored at a property on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, in June 1983. #155762988
TREASURE CAY Treasure Cay resort on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, March 1986. #71109962
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BUGGY ON THE BEACH
SCOTTI’S YACHT
Friends enjoy a day out driving a beach buggy in Acapulco, 1975. #745216003
Guests on board Italian Count Hannibal Scotti’s yacht, ‘Scotland Cay’, Monte Carlo harbour, Monaco, August 1981. #95738185
SARAH MARSON WILLIAMS Sarah Marson Williams enjoys a cocktail on the beach at the Hilton Hotel, Needhams Point, Barbados, April 1976. #968906402
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A COLOURFUL CREW
COLOURFUL CREW
A group of colourfully dressed friends on board the Calypso clothing store owned boat, Bermuda, June 1970. #745216001
A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970. #95738179
LIDO LIFE
NICELY COIFFED
A waiter serves fruit to bathers, including socialite, Louisa del Musso (kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. #745210113
A poodle enters a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France, 1970. #745210115
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AT THE WHEEL
CALETA BEACH, ACAPULCO
Friends enjoying a sailing holiday in the Bahamas, 1967. #745210111
A couple walk on Caleta Beach holding hands, Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. #745210117
WAITING IN THE SHADE
POSITANO BEACH 1
A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967. #745209353
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at Positano, Italy, 1979. #745210173
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MONTE CARLO
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Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975. #745216007
OLIMPIA HRUSKA
SNORKELLING IN SARDINIA
Swedish model Olimpia Hruska, wearing a bikini, poses against a rock on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, 1964. #745208851
A woman wearing a swimsuit walks into the sea holding diving flippers and a snorkel, in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, 1964. #766994977
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OCHO RIOS, JAMAICA
MARBELLA CLUB
Guests relax by the swimming pool at John Young’s villa ‘Plantana’, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, March 1971. #968906526
A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain, 1976. #968906400
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IL CANILLE Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. Il Canille is the villa owned by Italian tailor and fashion designer Umberto Tirelli (1928-1992). #155762888
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MARBELLA HOUSE PARTY
POOLSIDE IN KENYA
Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain,1967. #968906546
A woman sits at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958. #968906500
MARIETINE BIRNIE, BLUE LAGOON
MARIETINE BIRNIE
Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. #968910696
Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. #968906452
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MARBELLA CLUB
KASIMIR KORYBUT
Guests relax by the pool of the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain, August 1980. #968906498
Kasimir Korybut and Michelle Vaughan begin a raft ride up the White River in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971. #968906408
SNORKELLING IN MALTA
SNORKELLING IN THE SHALLOWS
A group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta, 1959. #968906516
A group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta, 1959. #968906522
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STOCKING ISLAND, BAHAMAS
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A high angle view of people swimming next to the ketch ‘Traveler II’ , Stocking Island, Bahamas, 1964. #968898944
YACHTING CREW IN LYFORD CAY
LAS BRISAS
Crew members tend to the rigging while sailing in Lyford Cay, Bahamas, April 1966. #968906454
The coastline near Warren Avis’ villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, January 1978. #84113320
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ANDROS ISLAND
BERMUDA, 1957
A family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. #968906432
A unidentified woman stands in a garden wearing a strapless blue dress, Bermuda, 1957. #968898334
ISLAND PARADISE August 1984: Topless swimmers on a rocky promontory of the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. #3438891
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SNORKELLING IN THE SHALLOWS
A NICE SPOT FOR LUNCH
A group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta, circa 1959. #745209357
A group enjoy a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda, 1957. #745209093
ARRIVING IN STYLE
YACHTING IN LYFORD CAY
circa 1960: Mike Phipps arriving for lunch at the Guinness house in Manalapan, Palm Beach. #3089639
A group of friends enjoy a day sailing in Lyford Cay, Bahamas, April 1966. #968906464
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DOLORES DEL RIO
ANNA MARIA ALBERGHETTI
Mexican film star Dolores Del Rio (1905 - 1983, right) poses with a friend in Acapulco, Mexico, 1952. #745209095
Italian operatic singer and actress, Anna Maria Alberghetti relaxes during a break from entertaining at a local nightclub, Lake Tahoe, USA, 1959. #745208847
ALL ABOARD
POSITANO BEACH 3
Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975. #745209351
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at Positano, Italy, 1979. #745209369
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POOLSIDE CHEZ HOLDER Guests by the pool at Albin Holder’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, May 1970. #77442826
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TOP UP?
SOCIAL CALL
1958: Swimsuited revellers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. #3097297
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. #605352845
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POOL AT LAS BRISAS
POOL ON AMALFI COAST
Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. #77440433
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. #77442051
YACHTING TRIP Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967. #56442297
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CARIBE HILTON BEACH
BARBADOS BEACH
A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the beach at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1956. #72277964
Mr and Mrs Nigel van Wieck take a stroll along a beach in Barbados, April 1976. #52200181
POOL IN PALM BEACH
EL VENERO
Bathers in and around the pool at Mrs. Murray Goodman’s house in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1985. #77442781_8
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967. #50945877
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HARBOUR AREA, PORTOFINO Two men assist a woman disembarking a fishing boat on Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. #968906392
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General view of the harbour area, crowded with small and large boats, in Portofino, Italy, 1977. #155761599
CAVALLO COAST
CAVALLO BATHERS
August 1984: A fleet of yachts at anchor off the sunny Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. #3438896
1984, The island of Cavallo, off the coast of Corsica. #51246671
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PANTZ POOL
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Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz’ Marbella home, September 1985. #79825185
GREAT HARBOUR CAY
HELEN DZO DZO KAPTUR
A bather on the beach on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. #95738249
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. #605352847
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HOLIDAY IN MUSTIQUE
TROPICAL MUSTIQUE
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1989. #605351899
February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. #3438554
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BOULDEREIGN Carl Hovgard’s home, Bouldereign in Carefree, Arizona, built around the boulders on a desert site, January 1973. #605352633
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COWARD ABROAD
BERMUDA BEACH
1953: English playwright, actor and composer Noel Coward (1899 - 1973) on holiday in Jamaica in a hired rowing boat. #3230501
A woman on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. #53438294
KEEP YOUR COOL
MEGACHESS
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. #2695027
A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993. #84113314
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HARBOUR ISLAND, BAHAMAS
FISHING ON HONEYMOON PORCH
A couple relax at the beach on Harbour Island, Bahamas, 1967. #745210175
A couple relax on a porch in Exuma, Bahamas, 1967. #745209367
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SAINT-TROPEZ
MARINA PICCOLA
Holidaymakers lounging on the deck of their luxury yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971. #475373743
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. #77440308
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DECK DWELLERS
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General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of the yacht ‘Traveler II’, off the coast of Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1967. The image has been taken from a vantage point on the mast of the yacht. #114211583
A FRIENDLY CHAT
COMING ASHORE
A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967. #745216005
A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy. August 1973. #745210243
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SAILING DINGHY
SAILBOAT IN SAN DIEGO
A boy and two girls lifting a sailing dinghy off its trailer, San Diego, California, 1960. #120817062
Mrs Cuddihy Perry, her son, and Mrs George H. Gentry with a sailboat on a beach in San Diego California, 1960. #120817126
LEONARD DALSEMER Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. #56013769
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HOTEL DU CAP EDEN-ROC
UNDERWATER DRINK
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. #77440352
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. #76859752
THE FULLERS
BARBADOS BLISS
May 1970: Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL. #3239994
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, April 1976. #52200184
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CORAL BEACH
HOTEL CAMINO REAL
A view of Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977. #53438289
The swimming pool of the Hotel Camino Real in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, April 1979. #84106460
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MAZATLAN SEASIDE
ARMANDO’S BEACH CLUB
Holidaymakers at a seaside pool at Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984. #77443932
Sunbathers at Armando’s Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975. #77444438
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SEA DRIVE
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Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at Nassau. The children are Bianca Juarez (Bobo’s daughter from another relationship) and Siobhan, Branwell and Saoirse McClory. #2716725
BALCONY BATHING
LOS LEONES
June 1989: Victoria and Francesca Pereira sunning themselves on a balcony in the Algarve, Portugal. #3165349
Los Leones, the home of Catherine and Pero Feric at Pointe Milou on the northern coast of Saint-Barthelemy in the Caribbean, March 1991. #74155648
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POOL AT LAKE TAHOE
BAHAMANIAN HOTEL
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. #77442754
A hotel on the coast at Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. #95738278
ESTHER WILLIAMS Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a Florida swimming pool. #2665174
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MARBELLA CLUB
FLORIDA PALMS
The swimming pool of the Marbella Club in Andalucia looks out over the sea, 1976. #53403599
A view of palm trees at a beach resort in Boca Raton, Florida, April 1978. #113915532
PUSSYFOOTING
MARA LANE AT THE SANDS
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot - a mixture of Jamaican fruit juices, 1958. #52171101
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. #77442769
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BOCA RATON
BLACK PEARL TRIPPERS
A swimming pool in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, circa 1978. #605351897
Henry B. Cabot Jr. (standing, centre) with his son Henry Bromfield Cabot III and their host Barclay (Buzzy) H Warburton III (in striped shirt) aboard the brigantine ‘Black Pearl’, circa 1959. They are sailing off North Shore, Boston, around Manchester and Marblehead harbors, Essex County, Massachusetts. #52171071
LAKE TAHOE TRIP
CANNES WATERSPORTS
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. #89370192
Holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. #475374145
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CAFE IN MONTE CARLO Diners on a cafe terrace in Monte Carlo, Monaco, August 1975. #77445996
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LYNN WYATT
FRUIT COCKTAIL
American socialite Lynn Wyatt by a swimming pool in Cap Ferrat, France, 1991. #605352293
Mrs Charles Rogers sits on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa & Racquet Club pool, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961. #605353061
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POOL BY THE SEA
MCMARTIN VILLA
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969. #73309131
Guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin’s villa in Bermuda, September 1977. #95738182
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HOTEL-DU-CAP-EDEN-ROC Waterskiing from the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes, France, 1969. #475371029
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PALM BEACH PASTELS
THE ROMANONES
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959. #605353355
Dowager Countess of Romanones, Blanca de Borbon (right, with Parasol), with her daughter, the Marquesa of Tamarit (left, with fan) and granddaughters, Maria (left) and her younger sister, Victoria, at the Countess’s home in Madrid, Spain, May 1976. #3165717
POSING BY THE POOL
LILLIAN CRAWFORD
A swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1968. #605352287
Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970. #74155619
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PORTO ERCOLE BEACH
SWIMMING IN THE BAHAMAS
A jetty juts out from a rocky shoreline in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, July 1991. #88154332
Brightly coloured swimmers in a pool in Nassau on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas, 1959. #101912753
VERUSCHKA
IN VOGUE
February 1986: German countess, model and film star Veruschka, (Countess Vera Gottlieb Von Lehndorff) standing on a balcony in Acapulco. She became a photographer of note after her modelling days finished. Her father was executed for plotting against Hitler. #3165718
Vogue magazine editor Topsy Taylor, a visitor to Acapulco, circa 1966. #52171005
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POOLSIDE GOSSIP
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A desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann. Lita Baron (far left) approaches Helen Dzo Dzo (left) and Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk. #2668264
SCRABBLE IN PALM SPRINGS
SUNBATHING ON CAPRI
A group of people playing a game of Scrabble, Palm Springs, southern California, January 1970. #52021099
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas - on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. #155761750
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DESERT HOUSE PARTY
BUZIOS
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986, centre, standing), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo (second from right). #77442787
Holidaymakers in Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, January 1983. #596331487
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MONOCLED MISS Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. #3163556
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LA CONCHA BEACH CLUB
ADRIATIC SAILORS
Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975. #77442143
Premium Rates Apply. Young holidaymakers from Milan enjoy a sail on the Adriatic, 1956. #89370315
OCEAN CLUB ON PARADISE ISLAND
KATHARINE HEPBURN
A cross-shaped ornamental pond and fountain at The Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, 1963. Huntington Hartford, paid $25,000,000 to have Paradise Island legally designated an ‘out island’, thus cutting his taxes. #76859792
1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica. #3164477_8
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CORFU PICNIC
MARISA BERENSON
Ina Verogiani, Lisa Pallavicinos, Daphne Pallavicinos, Nicolas Pallavicinos and Yolande Scheres picnic in an olive grove on the Greek island of Corfu, 1987. #53403584
American actress Marisa Berenson in Capri, 1968. #53403681
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HOTEL DE PARIS IN MONACO
NASSAU SPEED WEEK
The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977. #475373495
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POOLSIDE IN SOTOGRANDE Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975. #95738211
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FRENCH HOLIDAY
C. Z. GUEST
Holidaymakers in France, August 1969. #475373493
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. #84106452
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EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
PALM SPRINGS RIDERS
A man contemplates the sunbathers by a swimming pool in Capri, Italy, August 1974. #453081605
A group of riders among Washingtonia palms in Andreas Canyon, Palm Springs, southern California, January 1970. #52021108
SAINT-TROPEZ BEACH The beach at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971. #102060802
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MELINA MERCOURI
DOLORES GUINNESS
1961: Greek actress Melina Mercouri (1925 - 1994) sitting at a street cafe in Athens. #3165250
1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun’s last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. #3165414
VOLLEYBALL IN SANTA BARBARA
SAINT-TROPEZ
A group of young people playing volleyball, Santa Barbara, California, July 1975. #120817206
Holidaymakers on the deck of yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971. #475371105
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GALLERIA VITTORIO EMANUELE II
EQUESTRIAN ENTRANCE
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of the Piazza del Duomo. #155761489
1957: Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy. #3165297
FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH
PORTO ERCOLE
An aerial view of a beach resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, February 1970. #113915620
A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973. #87922953
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POOLSIDE BACKGAMMON Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. #77443356
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ISLAND LOOKOUT
MUFFY BANCROFT
May 1968: Nattily dressed, W Clifford Klenk with his telescope and his wife, Hope in their Hog island house. #3095102
Mrs Thomas Bancroft Jnr (Peggy Bancroft) in the foyer of her Manhattan duplex, circa 1958. #3122629
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VILLA NIRVANA
AT THE VON PANTZS
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. #77442109
Bathers by the pool at El Rincon, the Marbella home of Baron and Baroness von Pantz, Spain, August 1967. #77442313
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NEO-CLASSICAL POOL Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985. #51428805
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COTTON BAY
CASA LAS ESTACAS
The Campbells’ pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982. #95720181
Gunzburg’s pool at the Casa Las Estacas, in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, April 1979. #84106463
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SARDINIAN HOLIDAY
HOTEL SPORTS
Selvaggia Borromeo enjoys a yachting holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, 1967. #53403798
1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. #3436608
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PARTY CHAT
FAN MAIL
circa 1960: West coast socialite Whitney Warren talking to film star Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) at a party in San Francisco where she is appearing in a production of ‘Ondine’. #3089000
Premium Rates Apply. Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ had been released. #2716724
CHANTILLY RACECOURSE
CHECKERED FLAG
Smartly dressed racegoers chat to jockeys at an event being held at Chantilly Racecourse, Chantilly, Oise, France, 1956. #745209355
The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week. #52432973
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MAN’S WORK
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Working at his typewriter surrounded by ‘bunny girls’, publisher Hugh M Hefner at the Playboy Key Club in Chicago. He founded adult magazines, Playboy, VIp and Oui. #2716752
HELLO THERE
LINDA CHRISTIAN
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 - 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed. #3138045
Mexican actress Linda Christian poses at the Canzone del Mare on the Picola Marina on the island of Capri, Italy, in July 1958. #155761757
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NEW YORK PICNIC
GARDEN PARTY
A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline. #2716847
1970: An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. #3165254
POLO GEAR A group of polo players with their equipment, Argentina, December 1990. #113915396
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ALL MINE
THE MARLBOROUGHS
Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Worth. A Palm Beach socialite, he acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan. #2665700
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 - 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the family seat in Oxfordshire. #3165488
TENNIS IN THE BAHAMAS
OCEAN CLUB ON PARADISE ISLAND
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking. #114211819
A cross-shaped ornamental pond and fountain at The Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, 1963. Huntington Hartford, paid $25,000,000 to have Paradise Island legally designated an ‘out island’, thus cutting his taxes. #76859792
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RHODE ISLAND SURFERS
RHODE ISLAND SURFER
Surfers off Rhode Island, September 1965. #120817355
A surfer carrying his board at a Rhode Island beach, September 1965. #120817307
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BETTINA GRAZIANI
ABACO ISLANDER
Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. #53438482
Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, founding Hope Town. #71109977
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January 1970: Helen Dzo Dzo at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann. #89441044
ZEPHYRIA I
PENTHOUSE POOL
Holidaymakers aboard the ‘Zephyria I’ in Monte Carlo, August 1970. #101949525
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. #77440243
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EXUMA HOLIDAY
NELDA AND FRIENDS
A yachting holiday on Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1964. #84941427
Ladies by the pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. From right to left, former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), unknown, Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita Baron (in white sunhat). The Linsks are the current owners of the house. #605352637
GIACOMO MONTEGAZZA Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Cassinella, on Lake Como, 1983. #50945878
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MONACO GRAND PRIX
PORTO ERCOLE
British racing driver James Hunt (1947 - 1993) on the grid at the Monaco Grand Prix, 22nd May 1977. #79750345
A jetty juts out from a rocky shoreline in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. #88004728
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CLIFFTOP POOL
EARL LEVY’S CASTLE
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis’ villa ‘La Barranca’, Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971. #77442113
Trident Castle, the home of Earl Levy in Port Antonio, Jamaica, March 1993. #84107580
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CATHERINE WILKE
TRANSPORT BUFFS
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri. #2716606
A helicopter and two motor boats adorn the deck of a luxury yacht where Iowan businessman Roy J Carver and the Prince de Polignac are chatting in Monte Carlo harbour. #2695020
CABOT FAMILY
JOHN RAWLINGS
circa 1960: Mrs Henry Cabot Jnr with her children (left to right) Henry Bromfield Cabot III, Camilla Foote Cabot and Andrew Hull Cabot, sitting on a car in the driveway of their home, ‘Rollingstones’, Manchester, New Hampshire. #3436607
1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 - 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. #51246681
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A Desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgan Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches on the right Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Helen Dzo Dzo. #77442787
MY TOY
KATHARINE HEPBURN
April 1982: Member of the ‘Jolly Club’, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola racing car. He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International. #3163540
1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica. #3164477
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HABITATION LECLERC
BERMUDA STREET SCENE
Bathers walking down steps to the swimming pool at Habitation Leclerc, Haiti, January 1975. They are followed by a waiter with cocktails. #77442611
Bicycles, motorcycles, and cars on a street in Bermuda, June 1967. #554350999
NO TRANSPORT PROBLEMS American model and actress, Mary Hartline (Mrs Woolworth Donahue), with car and bicycles on her motor yacht, ‘Hartline’, Palm Beach, 1982. #2695069
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PETER VIERTEL
SAN VICENZO
Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 - 2007) with his surfboard on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960. #475374143
1984, Donna Stefanella Vanni Calvello di San Vicenzo in the Hall of Mirrors at her family’s palazzo in Palermo, Sicily. The focal point of Sicilian Belle-Epoque society, this eighteenth-century palazzo has been compared with Versailles. #51246706
HOTEL EXCELSIOR
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. #53438142
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. #2716791
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T. S. ELIOT
COLIN TENNANT
American-born poet and playwright T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) at Love Beach, New Providence Island whilst on his honeymoon in the Bahamas, 1957. #74155576
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, on the island of Mustique, which he owns privately, March 1973. #84066693
NO TRANSPORT PROBLEMS
SCONE MADAM ?
American model and actress, Mary Hartline (Mrs Woolworth Donahue), with car and bicycles on her motor yacht, ‘Hartline’, Palm Beach, 1982. #2695069
Interior decorator James Pendleton, his wife and guests spending a quiet Sunday afternoon beside the pool at their home of the last eight years, Beverly Hills, California, 1952. Drinking tea are Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton, Leonard Stanley (from Hawaii), Mr. and Mrs. William Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Henry and Mrs. Jack Bolton. In the background is the pool house. #3088770
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The mansion of Remy de Haenen on a peninsula in the bay of St. Jean at Eden Rock on the Caribbean island of St Barts (Saint-Barthelemy), March 1973. The house is now a hotel. #52235738
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO
PRINCESS RUSPOLI
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982. #74155625
Princess Lucy Ruspoli stands in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech am Arlberg, Austria, February 1979. #56929914
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Led by skimaster Stein Eriksen, skiers ‘sail’ down a slope at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado, circa 1967. The skiers are wearing thin capes which attach to their wrists and billow out like sails as they ski. #52171055
GSTAAD STATION
SKIING IN VAIL
Travellers with their skis waiting at Gstaad Station, 1961. #52043465
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. #745208853
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LECH ICE BAR 1
LECH ICE BAR 2
Skiers enjoy a drink by the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. #745210703
A bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. #745209091
SKIING IN SEEFELD A group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985. #745208843
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SKIING IN VAIL 1
SKIING IN VAIL 2
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. #745210699
Skiers pass by a snow covered tree in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. #745210705
HOTEL KRONE, LECH
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO
Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. #745210707
Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. #79466650
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SKIING IN VAIL
A woman carrying skis and ski poles in Vail, Colorado, 1964. #745208845
A group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. #745209097
SKIING IN VAIL
SKATING WAITER
A woman wearing a fur coat and holding ski poles in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964. #745209363
A skating cocktail waiter at the Palace Hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978. #113912062
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Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979. #77442712
SNOWMASS PICNIC
VERBIER SKIERS
1967: A stand-up fondue picnic for skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields. The village was opened in 1967. The ski picnic was organized by Holiday magazine, with the helicopter being used to bring up hot food. The guest list included Howard Head (1914 - 1991) of the Head Ski Company, president of IBM Thomas Watson Jr. (1914 - 1993) and his wife Olive (nee Cawley, 1918 - 2004), Norwegian Olympic skier, Stein Eriksen, and American restaurateur Armando Orsini (1923 - 2011). #2668255
Skiers at Verbier, 1964. #52043588
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NEW YORK FASHION DESIGN
PARK AVENUE
THE CARLTON HOTEL
STAR IN TOWN
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PULITZER ON THE BEACH
SPRING BREAK
LUCKY LUCIANO
NY LIGHTS
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AN ANXIOUS WAIT
NEW ENGLAND SKIING
SOHO WAITERS’ RACE
FARLEY GRANGER
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PULITZER CHECKS IN
FONDA IN TOWN
JAZZ SCOOTER
THE KING OF JAZZ
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Once Upon A Time - by Slim Aarons “This article, found in the beautiful publication by the same name from Abrams Publishers, had Frank Zachary write its introduction. Slim depicts his life story with a vivacity that matches his vibrant photography.�
I believe in fairy tales. For six decades I have concentrated on photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. Many of these elegant people were princes and princesses and others were just ladies and gentlemen. Some lived in marble palaces and Camelot castles, and others lived in magnificent contemporary estates. I travelled all over the world to photograph them; found them in London and New York, Gstaad and Newport, Palm Beach and St. Tropez, and Lake Forest and Rome. During World War II, I was a combat photographer for Yank magazine, and having survived that experience a little battered but all in one piece, I felt I owed myself some easy, luxurious living to make up for the years I had spent sleeping on the ground in the mud, being shot at and bombed. The war was over; I was eager to put all that misery behind me. There were still a lot of problems in the world, and while many of my colleagues focused on these post-war headaches, on cold wars and little hot wars, on the social trouble s in a devastated Europe and in America itself, I decided I had had my fill of photographing human suffering and despair. So, when I was asked to hotfoot it to Korea to cover the war there, I let it be known that the only beach I was interested in landing on was one decorated with beautiful girls tanning in a tranquil sun. Beaches were made for strolling and lying on, not for invading.
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These were the years before television had brought a certain kind of familiarity with the world into everyone's home, and the great picture magazines Look, Life, and Holiday were doing a tremendous job covering the Who, What, When, and Where of the world. There \Ras more than enough work. And many of the friends I had made during the war were now editors of those magazines. One of my first beats was Hollywood, dream capital of the world, as far from reality as I could have imagined getting. Freelancing for Life magazine, I found the transition was easily made from war combat to combating starlets. I have never forgotten the advice Clarence Bull, chief of still photography at MGM, gave me while he photographed stars like Lana Turner, Clark Gable, and Robert Taylor: Glamour was essential, illusion must be maintained. Louis B. Mayer's edict prevailed: The women must be beautiful, the men handsome. They were the princes and princesses of Dream World and Clark Gable was "The King." After Hollywood, I decided to head for Europe, and as Life was just opening a bureau in Rome, I checked in there, settling down at the Excelsior Hotel on the Via Veneto, where my bill was a little over ninety dollars a month. The Excelsior had special rates for actors, newspapermen and courtesans. The reasons were obvious, the manager told me: actors and actresses decorated the lobby; news men might be working on a book (remember Grand Hotel?), and
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beautiful courtesans always demanded the biggest and the best suites from their current lovers. All the great continental hotels operated that way in those days. It was a wonderful place to begin my quest for the beautiful and the elegant. Rome offered its palaces and ancient ruins as suitable backgrounds for the galaxy of stars suddenly descending on the Eternal City. Life there was rewarding: the dollar was strong, the wine dolce, and the girls fantastic. Entertaining in their exquisite drawing rooms and frescoed galleries, the "Black Aristocracy," in combination with the superstars at play, gave rise to the legend of the "Beautiful People." From Rome I returned to the States and proceeded to photograph people in elegant surroundÂings all over the world. A Wonderful Time, my first book, came about when the attic of my home could hold no more of the photographs deposited there at the end of each assignment, and something had to be done. How about organizing them into a book? I thought; and so it began. The problem that soon became apparent was that there was enough material for a dozen books, and the decision had to be made to narrow the focus to the Western Hemisphere-at least for a start. A Wonderful Time was a personal and pictorial record of the great American cities, choice residential areas, and fashionable summer and
winter resorts during the post-World War II years. It is also a glimpse of the first families of America, photographed in their elegant homes and exclusive clubs. It was made during those years when I was on assignment for a number of magazines that depicted for readers a style of living known only to the favored few. I chose to call my second book Once Upon A Time not only in reference to the fairy-tale world I photographed, but also because I couldn't think of a better title to show how times have changed in the six decades I've been taking photographs. What was a very simple life when I was in my twenties has become something unbelievably complex. I can remember when I first came to New York after my formative years in New England. On hot summer days you could sleep in Central Park. Try that today! Now there are so many cars in New York that living there is a continual traffic jam. When I first began at Life magazine, I was paid $25 a day and I lived beautifully. At Maria's Restaurant on 52nd Street you could have a delicious lunch for $1.25 or a dinner of the finest food in New York for $2.50. When I lived in Rome, you could fill a girl's room with flowers for $10. I still wear suits I had made to order at Brioni for less than $100, and the shoes I had made of kangaroo leather in Hong Kong were two pairs for $120. You could walk onto an airplane five minutes before the flight took off and the only time you had to go through security was at customs in a foreign country.
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By the time I reached thirty, I had nearly been blown up in Anzio, I had photographed the top movie stars, stage stars, and society's stars and I had shot three Life covers. I paid $32 a month for an atelier on 57th Street just off Park Avenue; for $63, I got the whole floor with a terrace. I could park right in front of the door of my building, or if I wanted to garage my car, the price was 50 cents. A dime was considered a reasonable tip-it was good enough for Rockefeller! It is no wonder that people need huge salaries today just to afford a decent life. Today I live in the country outside of New York, where I've lived for the past fifty years. I cut my own grass, not only for the enjoyment of the experience, but for the exercise as well. I even keep a hand mower in case there is no gasoline. I particularly enjoy being able to walk barefoot outside, surrounded by flowers and two-hundred-year-old trees. My water comes from my own well, and if the heat goes out, the great old fireplace in my 1782 colonial can heat the entire house. The town I live in is so concerned about maintaining open space that we pay extra taxes to buy parcels of land to leave undeveloped. I learned one lesson after being a combat photographer: if a war is coming, get out of the cities. If a million-dollar bomb is going to be dropped, it will be dropped where it can cause the most damage, not on a farmhouse in the country.
and modern. I marvel at the wonders that we live with-satellites, digital television and cameras, cell phones, the internet. Yet I fondly remember the times when a Coke cost a nickel, when a kid could buy a piece of candy for a penny, when the computer wasn't down, and when there was something to watch on television though there were only three or four channels to choose from. Many of those shown in this book have changed their names, and others have passed on, but as the camera has recorded, so they were, and there they were. I have tried to include images of an era that was fairy-tale-like and much simpler, such as children playing on a lawn or a horse-drawn sleigh in New Hampshire taking skiers to lifts that were never crowded. Now ask yourself, dear reader, even with all the amazing things that we have in our lives today, are we better off, or were things simpler Once Upon A Time?
How did things become the way they are today? We have every conceivable device and more to make our lives smooth, efficient,
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