Slim Aarons a Poolside Story - Best selling collection 

In January 1970, lifestyle photographer Slim Aarons landed in Palm Springs, California on assignment for Holiday magazine. Slim photographed the writer Truman Capote at home, the city’s mayor leading an early morning horseback ride through Andreas Canyon, the chic scene at the Palm Beach Tennis Club, industrial designer Raymond Loewy riding a dune buggy in the desert and the annual Palm Springs Rodeo. Knowing he couldn’t leave town without a pool shoot, Slim telephoned his friend Nelda Linsk and asked her to invite a few friends over for a daytime party. At the time, Linsk and her husband Joseph owned Kaufmann House, a Modernist masterpiece designed by the architect Richard Neutra. For two hours, Slim documented Nelda and her fashionable friends as they casually gathered around her pool. Like the Kaufmann House itself, Poolside Gossip, one of the images from that day, has become the epitome of California Cool.