Slim Aarons: Poolside with Slim Aarons

Sunshine, swimming pools, and people who seem to have nowhere particularly urgent to be.

Poolside with Slim Aarons collects the photographer’s iconic images of glamorous leisure from the 1950s through the 1980s—Mediterranean villas, grand hotels, private clubs, Palm Springs estates, and some of the world’s most enviable swimming pools. Aarons famously photographed “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places,” and few books capture that world quite so perfectly.

It’s escapism of the very best sort: elegant, sun-drenched, and an enduring lesson in how to spend an afternoon properly.