Lucky Luciano (Estate Stamped Limited Edition) 20x24
View Similar Items
Slim AaronsLucky Luciano (Estate Stamped Limited Edition) 20x241948
1948
About the Item
- Creator:Slim Aarons (1916-2006, American)
- Creation Year:1948
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Paper 12x16” Edition of 150 Price: $1800 Paper 16x20" Edition of 150 Price: $2,150 Paper 20x30" Edition of 150 Price: $3,000 Paper 30x40" Edition of 150 Price: $3,350 Paper 40x60" Edition of 150 Price: $3,950Price: $2,500
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:Seller: 1557617611stDibs: LU49332821411
Slim Aarons
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, he opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. Aarons 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, he 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 Aarons 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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- Orthochromatic Negative (Antique Olivetti Typewriter)By Samuel FieldLocated in Cambridge, GBThis bold graphic piece fantastically captures the iconic Italian Olivetti Typewriter. This artwork is a limited edition of 25, lustre photographi...Category
1980s Conceptual Still-life Photography
MaterialsBlack and White, Silver Gelatin, C Print, Photographic Paper
- Contrast - Personal Computer SeriesBy Samuel FieldLocated in Cambridge, GBPhotographed at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History, home to 800 Historic Computers. This collection is a fabulous reminder of Computers passed through our lives and have been...Category
2010s Pop Art Black and White Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
- Bandstand III, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage PhotographyBy Samuel FieldLocated in Cambridge, GB'Bandstand', captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a...Category
1980s Post-War Black and White Photography
MaterialsBlack and White, Photographic Paper, C Print, Silver Gelatin
- Bandstand II, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage PhotographyBy Samuel FieldLocated in Cambridge, GB'Bandstand', captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a...Category
1980s Post-War Black and White Photography
MaterialsBlack and White, Photographic Paper, C Print, Silver Gelatin
- Reel to Reel, StrethamBy Samuel FieldLocated in Cambridge, GBPhotographed in the British Recording Studio that in the 1980's recorded music by Julian Cope of the Teardrop Explodes and the Stranglers. It was the he...Category
1990s Conceptual Black and White Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Black and White, C Print, Silver Gelatin
- Bandstand III, Eastbourne, UK - Black and White Vintage PhotographyBy Samuel FieldLocated in Cambridge, GB'Bandstand', captured on a visit to his grandparents at the British seaside in Eastbourne, this collection by Samuel Field is a beautiful reminder of days gone by. This artwork is a...Category
1980s Post-War Black and White Photography
MaterialsBlack and White, Photographic Paper, C Print, Silver Gelatin