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Poolside with Slim Aarons: Glamorous pool photography capturing leisure, wealth, and sun-drenched elegance at its most aspirational.
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From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, the photographs featured in the extravagant Poolside with Slim Aarons whisk the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury, and grandeur prevail.
Poolside with Slim Aarons offers images of jet-setters and the wealthy, of beautiful, glittering people living the glamorous life. Yet this collection of stunning photographs of the rich and well-connected “doing attractive things” in their favorite playgrounds has a twist: The main character is pools, and everything that goes with them.
Pools bring with them images of magnificent, suntanned bodies; well-oiled skin; bikini-clad women; yachts; summer cocktails; sumptuous buffets; spectacular locations; and most of all: fun.
Poolside is not so much a who’s who of society, aristocracy, and celebrity―although C. Z. Guest, Lilly Pulitzer, Cheryl Tiegs, Peter Beard, and many who have appeared in Slim's previous books are here―as it is about leisure time and how the rich make use of it. This is a more intimate peek into very private lives, to which photographer Slim Aarons was given unprecedented access in the fifties, sixties, seventies, and eighties.
This coffee table book is perfect for sharing, displaying, and gifting.
Includes hundreds of gorgeous photos and an Introduction by William Norwich, fashion and interior design editor, Phaidon Press
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAbrams Books
- Publication dateNovember 1, 2007
- Grade level8 and up
- Reading age13 years and up
- Dimensions11.42 x 14.33 x 1.18 inches
- ISBN-100810994070
- ISBN-13978-0810994072
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- Publisher : Abrams Books
- Publication date : November 1, 2007
- Edition : Illustrated
- Language : English
- Print length : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0810994070
- ISBN-13 : 978-0810994072
- Item Weight : 5.47 pounds
- Reading age : 13 years and up
- Dimensions : 11.42 x 14.33 x 1.18 inches
- Grade level : 8 and up
- Best Sellers Rank: #228,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #107 in Celebrity Photography
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About the authors

William Norwich is a writer, editor, and video and television reporter.
He is the commissioning editor for fashion and interior design at the Phaidon Press. In media circles, he is also known for his editing and writing for The New York Times and Vogue.
Norwich is the author of the novel, Learning to Drive, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 1996 and the children's book Molly and the Magic Dress published by Doubleday in 2002. On April 12, 2016, Simon and Schuster will publish Norwich's new novel, My Mrs. Brown. It is the story of one very special woman's search for a particularly meaningful dress.
He has also written introductions and essays for many non-fiction books including C.Z. Guest: American Style Icon published by Rizzoli in 2013, Yabu Pushelberg, published by Architecture Interiors Press in 2009, Poolside with Slim Aarons published by Abrams in 2007 and Bright Young Things: New York published by Assouline in 2002.
Norwich has appeared on a variety of television interview shows, including Charlie Rose, unscripted shows including The Face and was an on-air correspondent for Full Frontal Fashion where his The Bigger Picture chronicled the enthusiasms of a variety of fashion personalities including Michael Kors and Grace Coddington.
He has hosted many videos for Vogue. In May 2012, he co-hosted Live Stream red carpet coverage of the Met Gala that aired simultaneously on Amazon.com, Metmuseum.org, and Vogue.com and in May 2013 he also co-hosted the Live Stream coverage of the Met Gala for Vogue.com, Metmuseum.org, ModaOperandi.com, and Samsung.com. Norwich is active on social media including Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook where he has over 100,000 followers.
From May 2010 to June 2011, Norwich was the special consultant to Town & Country magazine on a digital project, website and social media. From 2004 to May 2010, Norwich was a columnist for Vogue, a contributor to Vogue.com and the entertaining editor of Vogue Living during its publication cycle. In 2008, he contributed to the launch of the website wowowow.
From 1999 to 2004, Norwich was the style and entertaining editor of The New York Times Magazine and frequent contributor to The New York Times newspaper.
As the style and entertaining editor for The New York Times Magazine, he supervised the launch and publication of two Style and Entertaining magazines each year (later titled T: Magazine) and he produced dozens of weekly stories per year for the Sunday New York Times Magazine about women's, men's and children's fashion, the arts, interior design, food, manners, and entertaining.
Prior to joining The Times, Norwich was the editor at large for Vogue beginning in 1989. His responsibilities over that period included editing the People Are Talking About and the Talking Fashion (now Flash) sections of the magazine.
From 1993 to 1999 he wrote the weekly Style Diary column for The New York Observer. From 1985 until 1991 he wrote the daily around the town column William Norwich for the New York Daily News. From 1991 through 1993 his daily column appeared in the New York Post. His first job in style journalism was assisting Eugenia Sheppard, in whose memory the Council of Fashion Designers of America gives its Eugenia Sheppard Fashion Journalism Award annually.
In addition to writing, and editing, his illustrations and caricatures have been published in Vogue, House and Garden, and New York Magazine.
Norwich is a graduate of the writing program at Columbia University (MFA) Hampshire College (BA) and the Pomfret School.
Norwich has also been an editor at House & Garden and the U.S. editor of British Vogue. He has contributed to numerous other publications including Vanity Fair and Tatler. In the past year, his writing has appeared in Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, New York Magazine, Vogue, and The New York Times.
He lives in New York City.

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