Slim Aaron photographs comprise the definitive insiders look into the private lives of the Leisure Class of the 1950’s and 60’s. Aarons as part of the Jet-set photographed from Beverly Hills, to the French Riviera, capturing the Kennedys, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and other elite jet-setters. Aarons worked without stylists or elaborate lighting, preferring to photograph celebrities in their own clothes and own surroundings. As a faithful chronicler of the High Society he has no equal.

Description: Hard bound in dust jacket.  First Edition. Harper & Row 1974. Dust Jacket shows wear along its edges and corners with a rip at the top of the front panel and the remains of stickers and tape on its front and back panels, but no major chips or missing pieces. The book shows minor wear along the edges of its boards and has light foxing on the edge of the text block, but is otherwise in very good condition. Interior clean and binding sound! RARE!. Settings include Aspen, Bermuda, Newport, Palm Springs, Beverly Hills, Scottsdale, Palm Beach, Montego Bay, San Francisco, and other places the jet set congregated.

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A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life

Slim Aarons

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