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Period: 1950s
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...
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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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

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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...
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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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

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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 ...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

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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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

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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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

USA Trianon (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
circa 1960: A group of young women enjoying the sunshine in the grounds of the former George Newhall estate in San Francisco. Its house and gardens are modelled on Le Petit Trianon a...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, Sports Car Couple
Located in New York, NY
1955: John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1. His passenger is Margaret McAulay Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
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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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Truman Capote at Home
Located in New York, NY
Author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with c...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Esther Williams Poolside (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams, in a Florida swimming pool, 1955 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity fro...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

'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...
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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'...
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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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

George Hamilton in Capri
Located in New York, NY
George Hamilton relaxes on a deckchair in Capri, 1968 Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

'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...
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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...
Category

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...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Penthouse Pool
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool, 1959 C print Estate edition of 150 24 x 24 inches
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

'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...
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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

'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

Mittersill Castle, Austria, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a glider resting on the ground by Mittersill Castle, Austria. This is an estate stamped ...
Category

Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Mittersill Castle, Austria, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a glider resting on the ground by Mittersill Castle, Austria. This is an estate stamped ...
Category

Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego. This is an estate stamp...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California. This is an estate ...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California. This is an estate ...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1954 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American actors Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland attending a house party in Beverly Hills. This i...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York. This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York. This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Vuccino and Rava (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikini as they sit on the rear of a boat, on the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy,...
Category

Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

John Rawlings (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 - 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. January 1, 1950, fashion photographer John Rawlings relaxes on a beach in Jamaica. He was...
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Modern 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

In Capri (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
1958: Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capri. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certific...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons 'CZ's House, Villa Artemis' Midcentury Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, Florida. ...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s maritime photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the British ocean liner 'SS Queen of Bermuda' in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda. This is an es...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Parrot Jungle, Miami, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1955 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family day out at the Parrot Jungle amusement park near Miami. This is an estate stamped and...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Parrot Jungle, Miami, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1955 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family day out at the Parrot Jungle amusement park near Miami. This is an estate stamped and...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Parrot Jungle, Miami, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1955 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family day out at the Parrot Jungle amusement park near Miami. This is an estate stamped and...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

North Conway, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

North Conway, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Pool at Lake Tahoe, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sierra Nevada Mountains
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph by iconic mid-century photographer Slim Aarons depicts bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mo...
Category

American Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Giclée

Leisure and Fashion, Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman watching a poolside fashion show at the Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961. Slim Aarons Leisure and Fashion Chromogenic Lambda Print Slim Aarons Estate Edition 40 x 40...
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American Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Acapulco Rocks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to o...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Acapulco Rocks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to o...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Acapulco Rocks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to o...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Swimmer and Sunbather, Tahoe, Estate Edition. Vintage 50s California Nevada line
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and the line on the bottom of the pool marks the state boundary. It was owned by Frank Sinatra from 1960 to 1968. Slim Aarons Swimmer and Sunbather Cal Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Vintage Sport, Midcentury Modern, Vintage Lake Tahoe, Vintage Glamour, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Cal Neva Lodge, American Realist, Midcentury sport, Midcentury Glamour, California Nevada State Line, Midcentury Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Trip, Vintage Watersports, Vintage Nevada, Vintage Swimming...
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American Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

La Dolce Vita: Vuccino & Rava in Capri, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carla Vuccino, wearing a blue swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava in green. Both wear vintage bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on the deep marine blue waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, 1958. Slim Aarons La Dolce Vita: Vuccino & Rava Capri, Italy Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * From a recent Vogue article on the photography of Slim Aarons: "The iconic Capri is always teeming with a variety of hotels, each more beautiful than the last. A stone's throw from the Villa Malaparte from Jean-Luc Godard's movie Contempt, the Faraglioni cliffs plunging into the turquoise of the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the colorful houses that climb the bay. The Hotel Punta Tragara was one of Slim Aarons' favorite spots in Italy." # Vintage Capri, Vintage dolce vita, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Poolside...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Capri Bay, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1958: Faraglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector wil...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Positano, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate C...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Positano, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate C...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Positano, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate C...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

Edna Lewis, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A restaurant in Positano, Italy, 1958. One of the woman is art director Edna Lewis. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Sli...
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Realist 1950s Color Photography

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Lambda

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