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Period: 1950s
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1955 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino...
Category

Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 12 x 10 inches Framed Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticit...
Category

American Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

'Hotel Sports' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Sports' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. (Photo by Slim Aarons) C Print Produced from th...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Venice Gondolier (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
A gondolier on the Grand Canal in Venice, 1957. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked ma...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Fan Mail 1955 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Fan Mail Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ had been released. Paper...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Bohemia's Barracks at the Chelsea Hotel'
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Girl Talk 1956 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 1956: Taking tea at the St Regis Hotel, New York from l to r; Baroness Daubeck, Mrs Frederick B Payne, Mrs ...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Beauty And The Beast 1959 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - George Cameron - Oversize Mrs. George (Daphne) Cameron sits on a tiger pelt in the trophy room of Laddie Sanford’s Palm Beac...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Spear Fishing In San Diego 1956
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Spear Fishing In San Diego A spear fisherman in a mask, snorkel and wetsuit, with two boys on a beach in San Diego, Cal...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Relaxing At Lake Tahoe 1959 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Relaxing at Lake Tahoe - Oversize A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Chromogenic print pap...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Lake Tahoe - Oversize C print
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Lake Tahoe - Oversize Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150). Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959....
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capote at Home 1958 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Capote At Home Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. 1958. Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 1...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing
Located in London, GB
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955. Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped ...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet in Eleuthera' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Tania Mallet, 1961 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity 1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons, Beverly Hills Hotel (Slim Aarons Estates Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boul...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, Penthouse Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Penthouse Pool, 1961 (printed later) Archival pigment print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Young women by the Canellopoulo...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Marilyn Monroe, "Beverly Glen Party"
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 6/20, estate-stamped. Includes black frame with white mat. Milton H. Greene, famous for his fashion photography and celebrity portraits from the golden age of Hollywood, met Mar...
Category

1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing
Located in London, GB
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955. Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped C...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Campbell Falls
Located in London, GB
A family enjoying a picnic at Campbell Falls, Massachusetts, 1959 Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Fishing Boats - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Fishing Boats - Estate Stamped Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952. Gorgeous print measuring a large 40x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's. Estate Stam...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Capote at home - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Capote At Home Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York, 1958. Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - CZ Guest And Friends
Located in London, GB
C Z Guest (1920 - 2003) at Palm Beach, Florida with her two dogs, 1955. Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Lake Tahoe
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Young women holidaying by Lake Tahoe, circa 1959 Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons EstateEdition - Dolores Del Rio
Located in London, GB
Mexican film star Dolores Del Rio (1905 – 1983) swimming in Acapulco, Mexico, 1952. Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 20" inches / ca 51 x 51 cm’s paper ...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, Penthouse Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Penthouse Pool, 1961 (printed later) Archival pigment print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Young women by the Canellopoulo...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - In Capri - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
In Capri Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capri, circa 1958. (Photo by Slim Aarons) This photograph epitomi...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Equestrian Entrance - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
1957: Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy. Gorgeous print measuring a HUGE 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's paper size. Estate Sta...
Category

Contemporary 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Nice pool - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' Palm Beach American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on t...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Lake Tahoe Couple - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Couple A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California. Gorgeous pri...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Nicholsons - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Nicholsons - Estate Stamped Cafe Nicholson in New York, 1959. Gorgeous print measuring a large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's. Estat...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Beverly Hills Hotel - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel Sunshades and sun loungers by the swimming pool at The Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, 1957. Gorgeous print measuring an large 30 x 30" inches ...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons - Bond Girl To Be - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Bond Girl To Be Sultry sex symbol, film star Ursula Andress takes a siesta in a hammock on a visit to Rome, circa 1955. Gorgeous print measuring an large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - State Line
Located in London, GB
State Line A swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, USA, circa 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California. Gorgeous print measuring a larg...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons, Californian Cocktail Party (Audrey Hepburn)
Located in New York, NY
Californian Party, 1955 Chromogenic Lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) socialising at a cocktail party...
Category

American Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marsha Gayle - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle Marsha Gayle (right) and a friend relax on a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. Gorgeous print measuring a v...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Marsha Gayle ' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Marsha Gayle' by Slim Aarons Marsha Gayle (right) and a friend relax on a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. Gorgeous prin...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness, Sardinia
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool, 1959 C print 20 x 16 inches Estate edition of 150 Dolores Guinness, 1965: Catching the sun's last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. ...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

'Lake Tahoe Couple' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Lake Tahoe Couple' A couple relax at a swimming pool in the summer sunshine near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevad...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Fan Mail' 1952 ( Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Fan Mail' Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle'...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'C. Z. Guest' Palm Beach SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
Located in London, GB
'C. Z. Guest' American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. ...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Police Patrolman' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Police Patrolman' by Slim Aarons Beverly Hills police patrolman Lee R. Hathaway leaning on the roof of his car to write a report, Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, 1952. G...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Eton-Harrow Match' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Eton-Harrow Match' Lord’s achieves its sartorial and social pinnacle for a school event – the annual Eton-Harrow Match, 1955. Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x ...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'New York Picnic' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'New York Picnic' A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the iconic New York skyline, 1952. Gorgeous print measuring an extra large 40 x 40" inches / ca 1...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Christmas Swim' Oversize Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Christmas Swim' Gorgeous print measuring a very large 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101 cm's. Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floatin...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Lake Tahoe Trip' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Lake Tahoe Trip' Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. A fabulous scene picturing four young woman canoeing and pedalling on...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Nice Pool' Palm Beach (SLIM AARONS Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' by Slim Aarons American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool ...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Tennis In San Diego' California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956. The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Lake Tahoe Couple' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
A couple relax at a swimming pool in the summer sunshine near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California. Go...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Lake Tahoe Couple'
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California. Estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Californian Party (Slim Aarons Estate Print)
Located in New York, NY
Californian Party, 1955 Chromogenic Lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Belgian born actress Audrey Hepbu...
Category

American Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Relaxing at Lake Tahoe
Located in New York, NY
Relaxing at Lake Tahoe, 1959 Archival pigment print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A group of people relaxing by a...
Category

American Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Katharine Hepburn' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1953. This gorgeous and vividly coloured 'Slim' ph...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'Taking The Plunge' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Taking The Plunge' Gorgeous print measuring an extra large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's. A swimming pool at a resort by Lake Tahoe, USA, circa 1...
Category

1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category

Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

El Dorado Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, circa 1959. Slim Aarons Mittersill Castle, Slim Aarons Estate Edition Chromogenic Lambda print 1959,...
Category

Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

El Dorado Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, circa 1959. Slim Aarons Mittersill Castle, Slim Aarons Estate Edition Chromogenic Lambda print 1959,...
Category

Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, Handball in Central Park
Located in New York, NY
Handball in Central Park, 1947 C print 20 x 16 inches A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground, Central Park, New York City, 1947. Estate stam...
Category

American Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Civilized Snooze
Located in New York, NY
Civilized Snooze, Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece, 1955 C-print 20 x 16 inches Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography - Architecture
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. Beverly Hills Hotel 1957 C print Estate signature stamped an...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, Eleuthera Pool Party (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Eleuthera Pool Party 1970 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity Circa 1970, Eleuthera Pool Party, Bahamas....
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

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