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"Slim Aarons (1916\u20132006), dubbed the \u201Cphoto laureate of the upper classes,\u201D was a self-made man whose glittering half-century career began inauspiciously at 18 when George Allen Aarons, as he was then known, became the official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. After serving in combat in WWII and receiving a Purple Heart, he returned home determined never to be on another beach unless it had babes in bikinis.\n\nPinterestFacebookTruman Capote in His Brooklyn Heights Apartment, 1958.\n\nFor decades after the war, Aarons was on assignment in European castles, Palm Beach palazzos, and Hollywood mansions for glossy magazines like Town &amp;amp; Country, Holiday, Life, and Travel &amp;amp; Leisure. His subjects were what he called \u201Cattractive people doing attractive things in attractive places:\u201D C. Z. Guest, Diana Vreeland, Prince Philip, Mick Jagger, Truman Capote, and the like, snapped at chic watering holes and grand estates. As Aarons summed his focus up, \u201CI know my editor and what he likes: blondes, beds, and chandeliers.\u201D\n\nPinterestFacebookThe Girls of Foxcroft School Wait for Their Horses, Virginia, 1960.\n\nBeginning Friday, May 9, New York\u2019s venerable Staley-Wise Gallery is exhibiting a rare collection of more than 30 iconic Aarons images, all signed and many in their original large formats. These exceptional photographs\u2014most accompanied by the photographer\u2019s own fascinating captions\u2014capture the who, what, when, and where of the beau monde in the \u201950s, \u201960s, and \u201970s.\n\nThe entire show is highfalutin fun: One can only imagine what Aarons\u2019s upright cadets would have thought of the indolent slouches arrayed in The Girls of Foxcroft School Wait for Their Horses, 1960. A stroll through Staley-Wise\u2019s exhibition will make it clear why this hardworking photographer once remarked, \u201CI believe in fairy tales.\u201D\n\nMay 9 through June 28 at the Staley-Wise Gallery, New York; staleywise.com\n\nPinterestFacebookPop and Society: Marianne Faithfull, Desmond Guinness, and Mick Jagger at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, 1968."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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