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At 18 years old, Aarons enlisted in the U.S. Army, worked as a photographer at West Point, and later served as a combat photographer in World War II and earned a Purple Heart. Aarons said combat had taught him the only beach worth landing on was "decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun."
After the war, Aarons moved to California and began photographing celebrities. In California, he shot his most praised photo, Kings of Hollywood, a 1957 New's Year's Eve photograph depicting Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart relaxing at a bar in full formal wear. Aaron's work appeared in Life, Town & Country, and Holiday magazines.
Aarons never used a stylist, or a makeup artist. He made his career out of what he called "photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
An oft-cited example of this approach is his 1970 Poolside Gossip shot at Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House, with owner Nelda Linsk as one of the models in the photo.
"I knew everyone," he said in an interview with The (London) Independent in 2002. "They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them." Alfred Hitchcock's film, Rear Window (1954), whose main character is a photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, is set in an apartment reputed to be based on Aarons' apartment.
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€3,600
Poolside ladies
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€3,600
Catch up by the pool
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€2,750
Poolside style
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€2,750
Cocktail hour
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€3,050
Poolside Tete a Tete
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€3,050
Poolside interruption
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Palm Springs pool
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€2,290
Poolside catwalk
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Poolside fashions
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Poolside loungers
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At The Linsk House
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€2,290
Poolside conversation
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Desert house party
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€2,750
Palm Beach Idyll
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€2,210
September affair
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€2,290
Henley regatta
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€4,995
Modelling for Saks Fifth Avenue
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€3,600
Debutante ball
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€3,060
Eden Hartford
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€3,600
Saks fashion show
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€3,060
Burlington Arcade
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€2,750
Last-minute adjustments
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€2,750
Poolside Backgammon
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€2,750
Cricketers on the Pitch
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Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
€2,750
Saks Fifth Ave
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€2,290
Poolside Party
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Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
€3,500
Palm Springs Party
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Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
€3,600
Poolside Social
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Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
€3,600
On The slopes of Sugarbush
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Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
€2,850
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