Slim Aarons
Luxury Dining Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
1955 (printed later)

Name: Luxury Dining Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Brand: Slim Aarons
Price: 2500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Seaplane At Palm Beach 1955 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. unframed Silver gelatin print printed 2023 20×20″ - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front certificate of authenticity included framing options available - enquire for details other size options available: 12x12 $1800 16x16 $2150 20x20 $2500 30x30 $3350 40x40 $3950 48x48 $4500 60x60 $5100 Once an image reaches edition 75/150 the price will increase again by 15% Once an image reaches edition 100/150 the price will increase again by 15% Once an image reaches edition 145/150 the price will increase again by 15%

Creator:

Slim Aarons (1916-2006, American)

Creation Year:

1955 (printed later)

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)

Medium:

Silver Gelatin

Movement & Style:

Modern

Period:

1950-1959

Framing:

Framing Options Available

Condition:

Gallery Location:

London, GB

Reference Number:

Seller: ws1stDibs: LU449311965502

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American photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.

Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.

Aarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars.

In the 1950s, Aarons opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. He was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo.

In a 2002 interview with The Independent, Aarons remarked, ''I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them.'' This access allowed him to document the rich and famous with their guard down, reading newspapers and magazines, talking on the phone, relaxing by the pool, and chatting with friends. The 1957 photograph The Kings of Hollywood, for example, which won him wide acclaim, shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing together as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Many of Aarons’s best-known images involve games and sports. In the 1972 Poolside Backgammon, two young women play the board game of the title against the backdrop of a majestic Acapulco estate. In 1958’s Cannes Watersports, a couple attempts to glide across the Golfe de la Napoule on Jet Skis, one expertly and one hanging on for dear life. And in Penthouse Pool, shot in Athens in 1961, a young woman wearing a yellow bathing cap smiles coyly at the camera, surrounded by friends and brightly colored seat cushions, with the Acropolis faintly visible in the background.

Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death.

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