Slim Aarons (1916–2006) - Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool, Las Vegas, 1954

1954, the pool area at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. Slim Aarons photographs Mara Lane. The actress Mara Lane was at that time a young, up-and-coming actress of Austrian origin.

Slim Aarons is perched on top of a firefighter's ladder to photograph the scene!

Prepress digital print on RC satin paper. Medium resolution, archive digital print. Later print, 2009. Annotations and label on the back. Format: 24.2 x 20.5 cm, with margins. In very good overall condition, Presented on a white mat board, ready to frame.

Aarons is an American photographer known for his photographs of the jet set and high society in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He built his career largely with the help of his network of acquaintances. "I knew everyone," he says in a 2002 interview with The Independent. "They invited me to their parties because they knew that, deep down, I was one of them."

Alfred Hitchcock's film Rear Window, whose main character is a photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, is set in an apartment reputed to have been inspired by Aarons’s.