Slim Aarons : A New Book Captures a Lost World .

Oooh this new book Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection by Shawn Waldron, needs to go on my must buy list !

As Vanity Fair writes ‘George Aarons—everyone called the six-foot-four-inch New Englander “Slim”—had the good fortune to make pictures for magazines from the 1940s to the 1990s. His work filled the glossy showbooks of the day: Life and Holiday, Town & Country and Travel + Leisure, and, on occasion, Vanity Fair. His sunny portraits of postwar affluence captured the habits and habitats of the elite—and of the wider stylish class, whose socialites commingled with bohemians and trendsetters. Decades later, those same images from another era, through their buoyant mood and almost fetishistic attention to detail, have continued to hold sway over today’s influencers in the worlds of fashion, design, and advertising—a group of tastemakers who simply can’t get enough of Aarons’s idealized depictions of the good life.’

This new book, a luxe edition ‘provides a deep and comprehensive look at the groundbreaking career of Slim Aarons, spanning five decades. The book begins with Slim’s fieldwork as an army photographer and continues through his fledgling days in Hollywood, opening the LIFE bureau in Rome, doing fashion and travel shoots for Holiday, and finally traveling the world for Town & Country.

After five previous books, Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection presents the best of the previous image collections, including hundreds of iconic black-and-white and color photos, along with more than 100 rare and previously unpublished works. This beautifully produced book, a tribute to Slim Aarons’s incredible contribution to modern photography, is the result of intensive scholarship and research, making it a must-have for any Slim fan and photography lover.’

Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection by Shawn Waldron, published by Abrams, available October 3.