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Style: American Realist
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bob Dylan in NYC
By Don Hunstein
Located in New York, NY
Don Hunstein image is the photo used for the actual color cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” album. This iconic image shows Bob & his girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking down a cold an...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Subway 39 Small, Black & White, Photograph, NYC, 1970s, Subway, Nuts, Man
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
Subway 39 by John Conn was originally photographed in New York City between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed. Edition of 20. It is 13x19, unframed.
In this series, Conn captured the graffiti and one of the most crime ridden periods in New York. According to one source “In the 1980s, over 250 felonies were committed every week in the system, making the New York subway the most dangerous mass transit system in the world.” One image captures an Irish Catholic Nun...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Jackie K, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, Classic Pearls Jacqueline Kennedy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic portrait photograph by midcentury society photographer Slim Aarons, capturing young Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy, at a 'April...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Video Game Arcade, 1988 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Video Game Arcade, 1988
From a 6cm x 4.5cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs
Print size...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Diner Window, 1989 by Tria Giovan - Still Life Photography, Color Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Diner Window, 1989
From a 6cm x 9cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs
Print size 16" x ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wrestling Match on Clinton Street, 1990 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Wrestling Match on Clinton Street, 1990
From a 6cm x 9cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proo...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Flowered Dress on Essex Street, 1986 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Flowered Dress on Essex Street, 1986
From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Beatles - Ringo Starr Boots and Spurs on the toilet seat
Located in Brookville, NY
This photograph of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr's cowboy boot with spurs, resting on the toilet seat was taken in 1975 in England. It is a print on exhibition fiber paper, signed on the lower right side "Nancy Lee Andrews...
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Open Car Door on Eldridge Street, 1987 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Open Car Door on Eldridge Street, 1987
From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs
Pr...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jackie K, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, Classic Pearls Jacqueline Kennedy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic portrait photograph by midcentury society photographer Slim Aarons, capturing young Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy, at a 'April...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
1970s Fashion editorial photo Male Model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Fashion editorial photo of male model Pat Anderson, ca. 1973. 11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed. The print was used for publication in After Dark Magazine. From the estate of William Como, Editor in Chief, After Dark Magazine.
Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$300 Sale Price
25% Off
Bus Stop on Clinton Street, 1984 by Tria Giovan - Landscape Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
My Fire Escape View 01 on Stanton Street, 1986
From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Pr...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Barreto's on Stanton Street, 1987 by Tria Giovan - Landscape Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Barreto's on Stanton Street, 1987 by Tria Giovan
From a 6cm x 4.5cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Antique Oregon's "Indian Madonna & Child" Native American Silver Gelatin Photo
Located in Portland, OR
An important original Pacific Northwest Native American photograph, by Benjamin Gifford (1859-1936), titled "Indian Madonna & Child", produced in the Dalles Oregon, 1901.
Around 1900...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
You Look Wonderful: Ski Champion Max Rieger & writer Meg O'Neil. Caucasus, Gudari
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1990: Alpine ski champion Max Rieger on the balcony of a villa in Gudari, in the Caucasus mountains,Georgia. With him is Meg O'Neil dressed in ski suit designed by Bogner and wearing with it an Aeroflot flight cap...
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Spearing Salmon: Spokan", Sepia Photograph of Indigenous Spearfishing
Located in Soquel, CA
Silver and sepia tone photographic print of an indigenous spearfisher by Edward Sheriff Curtis, image circa 1901 (American, 1868-1952), as a 1974 copy of (and printed from negatives derived from) the original Edward Curtis copper gravure plate, by Jean-Antony du Lac (1929-2002). Curtis used a process he mastered of creating orotones, which are photographs on glass, which Jean-Anthony du Lac spent years mastering. Jean-Antony du Lac's work is considered that of a preservationist. Titled lower left, signed lower right. Presented in an aluminum frame with anti-glare glass. Paper size: 20"H x 15"W
Born in France and raised in New York City, Jean-Anthony du Lac moved west to San Francisco in 1957. Jean was an accomplished photographer whose published credits include Life Magazine and the San Francisco Examiner. He spent many years reproducing Edward S. Curtis' images of North American Indians; and he mastered the process of creating orotones, which are photographic reproductions on glass. Jean's orotones appeared on the walls of the Smithsonian as well as the White House during the Carter and Reagan administrations. A preservationist, his reproduction of Edward Muybridge...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Surfing Brothers
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930's.
Esta...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
A Nice Spot For Lunch, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group enjoying a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda.
This is an estate stamped and ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Mid Century Portrait of a Ballerina - Hand Painted Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957.
Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Estate Edition, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons is a vibrant testa...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Antigua Beach Club, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The beach club at at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies, 1960.
Slim Aarons
Antigua Beach Club, 1960
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive the next number in the edition
Modern printing from original transparency
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
30 x 20 Inches
$3,000
40 x 30 Inches
$3,350
60 x 40 inches
$3,950
72 x 48 inches
$4,500
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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.
Internal: Slim Aarons, Vintage...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, ;Golfing Pals' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
At the 16th hole on Pebble Beach golf course, singer and film star Bing Crosby (in red) and A Thomas Taylor, 1977
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurr...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Idyll, Estate Edition, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsuit and a chic straw sunhat adorned with a vibrant red ribbon.
Dominating the scene is a tropical holiday tree and candy cane themed umbrella, situated between two palm trees, further accentuated by a tray filled with neatly wrapped holiday gifts. The creative interplay between the inverted triangle of the chair and the conventional triangle of the umbrella culminates in a balanced yet dynamic composition.
With the midcentury tropical beach setting and warm orange color palette, this festive Slim Aarons photograph transcends seasons, making it a timeless piece to appreciate year-round.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Idyll...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Salvador Dali: Take It: Estate Edition Photograph [Iconic Surrealist, Modernist]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1970: With some of his mystical artwork at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a characteristic pose with his trademark walking-stick in vibrant...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
![Salvador Dali: Take It: Estate Edition Photograph [Iconic Surrealist, Modernist]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/slim-aarons-1916-2006-american-photography-salvador-dali-take-it-estate-edition-photograph-iconic-surrealist-modernist-for-sale/a_148/a_83042121623786403706/UndercurrentAARONSDali_l.jpeg?width=240 "salvador dali party")
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Estate Edition, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons is a vibrant testa...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Warm Weather: Marie Chantal Strikes a Pose
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Chantal Claire, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark, strikes an extravagant pose above her sister Pia (in yellow). They are lounging in the pool of the Hotel Belair, Cap Ferrat, July 1991.
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). *
Internal tags: Vintage Slim Aarons; Coastal, French Riviera, mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage french riviera, 1990s...
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
1970s photo Male Model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Male Model, ca. 1973. 11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
From the estate of William Como, Editor in Chief, After Dark Magazine.
Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$300 Sale Price
25% Off
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Slim Aarons
'Porto Ercole'
Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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.
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). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, 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.
Internal:
Slim Aarons, Porto Ercole, Italy, Il Pelicano...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Speedboat Landing, Porto Ercole, Estate Edition, Seascape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
August 1973: A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy, as figures on the boat and dock enjoy a moment of understated elegance.
Shot from above, this midcentury photograph captured by society photographer Slim Aarons in 1973 features highlights the interplay of sun, sea, and polished deck—a setting that seamlessly fuses casual glamour with everyday leisure. The Mediterranean waters shimmer with shifting blues, while the boat’s white surface offers a crisp focal point. True to Aarons’s approach, the composition exudes spontaneity yet feels carefully poised, revealing an intimate slice of jet-set culture along Italy’s Tuscan coast. Even decades later, this work showcases Aarons’s enduring style: a fine balance of serene setting, refined subjects, and a vivid sense of place that continues to enthrall viewers with its timeless warmth and charm.
Speedboat Landing
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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.
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). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, 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.
Internal:
Slim Aarons, Porto Ercole, Italy
Boating, Graphic, Ocean, Seascape, Blue, Black and White feel, Vintage Photography...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
![Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/slim-aarons-1916-2006-american-photography-salvador-dalis-party-estate-edition-photograph-surrealist-dinner-greenred-for-sale/a_148/a_83043121623787402664/UndercurrentAARONSDalisParty_l.jpeg?width=240 "salvador dali party")
Speedboat Landing, Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
August 1973: A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy, as figures on the boat and dock enjoy a moment of understated elegance.
Shot from above, this midcentury photog...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sundowners, Estate Edition, Carlton Hotel, Cannes, French Riviera Architecture
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Taken outside the Carlton Hotel in 1958, this photograph by Slim Aarons portrays two holidaymakers in colorful vintage bikinis pausing for a glass of ro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Subway 20 Small, Black & White, Photograph, NYC, 1970s, Subway Station, Cop, Dog
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
Subway 20 by John Conn was originally photographed in New York City between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed. Edition of 20. It is 13x19, unframed.
In this series, Conn captured the graffiti and one of the most crime ridden periods in New York. According to one source “In the 1980s, over 250 felonies were committed every week in the system, making the New York subway the most dangerous mass transit system in the world.” One image captures an Irish Catholic Nun...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snorkelling In The Shallows, Malta, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stamped and h...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Subway 31 Black & White, Limited Edition Photograph, NYC, 1980, Unframed
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
John Conn’s New York City Subway limited edition fine art photographs were originally taken between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed. Edition of 20. The image is 10.5 x 14.5 printed on 13 x 19 archival paper. This is unframed.
In this series, Conn captured the graffiti and one of the most crime ridden periods in New York. According to one source “In the 1980s, over 250 felonies were committed every week in the system, making the New York subway the most dangerous mass transit system in the world.” One image captures an Irish Catholic Nun...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Surfing Brothers (estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930's.
Esta...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
1970s photo Male Model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Male Model, ca. 1973. 11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
From the estate of William Como, Editor in Chief, After Dark Magazine.
Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
This is an estate stamped and hand ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
A Nice Spot For Lunch, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group enjoying a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda.
This is an estate stamped and ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
1970s photo Male Model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Male Model, ca. 1973. 11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed.
From the estate of William Como, Editor in Chief, After Dark Magazine.
Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kasimir Korybut, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970 landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Kasimir Korybut and Michelle Vaughan begin a raft ride up the White River in Ocho Rios, J...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Antigua Beach Club, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The beach club at at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies, 1960.
Slim Aarons
Antigua Beach Club, 1960
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive the next number in the edition
Modern printing from original transparency
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
30 x 20 Inches
$3,000
40 x 30 Inches
$3,350
60 x 40 inches
$3,950
72 x 48 inches
$4,500
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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.
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Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
A Nice Spot For Lunch, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group enjoying a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda.
This is an estate stamped and ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
A Nice Spot For Lunch, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group enjoying a picnic at a rocky coastline in Bermuda.
This is an estate stamped and ...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Snorkelling In The Shallows, Malta, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stamped and h...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Black Hippie Girl, Bethesda Fountain
Located in Miami, FL
In 1969, Bethesda Fountain on weekends was a gathering place for the radical and hip people of the time. Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were regulars...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lunch on Norfolk Street, 1990 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Lunch on Norfolk Street, 1990
From a 6cm x 9cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs
Print ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
1930s Photograph of Ansel Adams and Ed Towler
By Wilson D. Ellis
Located in Soquel, CA
Ansel Adams and Ed Towler by Wilson D. Ellis (American, 20th Century). Titled "Ansel and Ed Towler 1936" on verso and signed "Wilson D Ellis" with date 7/16/35 under mat. Silver Brom...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$1,440 Sale Price
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Fifty Cents on Delancey Street, 1985 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Fifty Cents on Delancey Street, 1985
From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs
Prin...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bridge Traffic on Delancey Street, 1986 by Tria Giovan - Landscape Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Bridge Traffic on Delancey Street, 1986
From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs
P...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
My Fire Escape View 01 on Stanton Street, 1986 by Tria Giovan - Landscape Photo
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
My Fire Escape View 01 on Stanton Street, 1986
From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Pr...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cafe Terrace In Nice, France, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers on a cafe terrace in Nice on the French Riviera.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Cafe Terrace In Nice, France, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers on a cafe terrace in Nice on the French Riviera.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Cafe Terrace In Nice, France, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers on a cafe terrace in Nice on the French Riviera.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Kasimir Korybut, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970 landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Kasimir Korybut and Michelle Vaughan begin a raft ride up the White River in Ocho Rios, J...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Fire Escape Viewing on Stanton Street, 1990 by Tria Giovan
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Fire Escape Viewing on Stanton Street, 1990
From a 6cm x 9cm negative, scanned in 2020
Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Children Gaze out San Francisco Street Car into the Rain, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Cute kids gaze out into the rain. Observed in primary colors, these primary schoolers are framed by the bold yellow and purple of a streetcar window. Mitchell Funk brings the comp...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This mid-1960s winter portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a blonde skier on the slopes at ...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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