Realist Figurative Photography
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Myanmar 2: street photograph of men and bicycle in Southeast Asia landscape
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This photograph is from among Vincent Dixon's series created in Borneo, Myanmar, Paris, Pushkar, Los Angeles, New York, London, Miami, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid,...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Double Dutch #37: Black girls playing jump rope games in Philadelphia urban city
By Ron Tarver
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This black and white photograph depicts a Black girls' team in the urban city of Philadelphia practicing the art of Double-Dutch jump rope. This series of images provide a snapshot o...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Borneo 4: photograph of sleeping man at yellow cafe table, Southeast Asia
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This photograph is from among Vincent Dixon's series created in Borneo, Myanmar, Paris, Pushkar, Los Angeles, New York, London, Miami, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid,...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Kneeling Boy: black & white photo of Havana, Cuba w/ tree in arched doorway
By Ron Tarver
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This black & white photograph of a child and a tree growing in an open courtyard of Havana, Cuba as seen through an arched doorway is part of artist Ron...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
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.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
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 Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Holiday Motel, Afternoon: cinematic photograph, Los Angeles, mid-century modern
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nadine Rovner orchestrates lush cinematic scenes, exploring a visual world of heightened tension, anticipation, anxiety, longing and desire. These carefu...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Harbour Isle Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the deck of yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Complimentary dealer...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
In the veil. Photograph, 23x27.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the veil
Photograph, 23x27.5 cm
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$365 Sale Price
20% Off
Slim Aarons Palm Beach Society (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jim Kimberly and his wife (far left) and friends with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Worth. A Palm Beach socialite, Kimberly acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan. A...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Monsieur - Madame Paulhan Fly a Farman Airship 1910 Los Angeles Int. Air Show
By Roy Christian
Located in Soquel, CA
Reprint of a vintage photograph titled "Monsieur (Louis) and Madame Paulhan of France ready to fly a Farman model lll in Los Angeles - 1910 from an original photograph by an unknown ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Monocled Miss, Estate Edition (German model Renata Boeck in 1960s New York)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German fashion model Renata Boeck (wearing a monocle) enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. She is wearing a black monocle and a fur-lined turquoise robe as she reads the morning paper, propped up against sumptuous yellow pillows. Morning light pours through the sheer curtains...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mary Nash Portrait, 12/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous archival digital photograph, limited edition giclee by Graham Nash (American, b. 1942) of an abstracted photogpah of his mother Mary Nash. #12/25. Titled, signed and dated '89. Stamp and signed on verso. Condition: Excellent. Unframed. Image size: 22"50"H x 15.25"W. Size including border: 24.33"H x 22.50"W.
The original photo is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Graham said about this photo, "This is a photo I took of my mother Mary when I was 11, in 1953. She was 33. It was the first image I took where I realized that it's possible that I see differently than most people. Normally my mother would be making the bed, or cooking breakfast — mother stuff. I'd never seen my mother in this contemplative mood. I'd never seen her either looking into her future or wondering if her life had been what she wanted or thinking about her past. I don't know. I only know that that's an incredible moment in my mother's existence."
While best known as a founding member of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young, Nash also developed a parallel career as a photographer, collector, and pioneer of digital imaging. Nash's photographs include revealing portraits of family and friends, images of life on the road, still lifes and landscapes, street photographs, bad credit people, and a unique series of self-portraits which often shows him reflected in windows and mirrors. His photography establishes Nash as a masterful visual artist with a keen eye for moments and scenes not immediately available to the common eye.
In 2006, fifty years of Graham Nash's photographic images were shown in his first solo museum exhibition, Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash, at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts. MoPA Director Arthur Ollman...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Laid Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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, Beverly Hills, 195...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Lyford Cay Fire Department' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The fire service in Lyford Cay, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, April 1966
Slim Aarons
Lyford Cay Fire Service
Slim Aarons Estate Edit...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Coffee With Dalí, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Spanish artist Salvador Dali enjoys a cup of coffee on the terrace of the Ritz Hotel, Madri...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Villa Nirvana
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects ...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
"Susan - Waiting '78" - Figurative Black & White Photograph, 4/25
By Graham Nash
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully evocative archival digital photograph, limited edition giclee by Graham Nash (American, b. 1942) of his then pregnant wife Susan titled "Susan Waiting '78". #4/25. Titled, signed and dated '89. Stamp and signed on verso. Condition: Excellent; some bleed through of stamp ink below left bottom margin from stamp on verso. Unframed. Image size: 15.50"H x 22.50"W. Size including border: 22.25"H x 24.50"W.
While best known as a founding member of the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young, Nash also developed a parallel career as a photographer, collector, and pioneer of digital imaging. Nash's photographs include revealing portraits of family and friends, images of life on the road, still lifes and landscapes, street photographs, bad credit people, and a unique series of self-portraits which often shows him reflected in windows and mirrors. His photography establishes Nash as a masterful visual artist with a keen eye for moments and scenes not immediately available to the common eye.
In 2006, fifty years of Graham Nash's photographic images were shown in his first solo museum exhibition, Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash, at San Diego's Museum of Photographic Arts. MoPA Director Arthur Ollman...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece. Taken in July 1961, the photograph shows a group of you...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Gaëtan de Rosnay, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French painter Gaëtan de Rosnay showing his work in Klosters, Switzerland.
This is an es...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Backgammon, Estate Edition, 1970s Acapulco, Villa Nirvana Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests playing a game of poolside backgammon at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
Poolside Backgammon
Villa Nirvana, Las Brisas, Acap...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Island Lookout
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
May 1968: Nattily dressed, W Clifford Klenk with his telescope and his wife, Hope in their Hog island house.
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
20 x 20 inches
$2500
12 x 1...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Monte Carlo, Monaco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features friends boarding a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco,
This is an estate stamped and hand n...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece. Taken in July 1961, the photograph shows a group of you...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Marlboroughs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 - 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the family seat in Oxford...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Gaëtan de Rosnay, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French painter Gaëtan de Rosnay showing his work in Klosters, Switzerland.
This is an es...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Gaëtan de Rosnay, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French painter Gaëtan de Rosnay showing his work in Klosters, Switzerland.
This is an es...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Gaëtan de Rosnay, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French painter Gaëtan de Rosnay showing his work in Klosters, Switzerland.
This is an es...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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 ...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachu...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Marlboroughs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 - 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the family seat in Oxford...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dans le Quartier Hongrois de Mea Shearim, Jerusalem Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Frederic Brenner
Located in Surfside, FL
Meah Shearim photograph of Torah scholars. Rabbis in Jerusalem. Photo of Hungarian quarter.
Frédéric Brenner (born 1959) is a French photographer known for his documentation of Jewish communities around the world. His work has been exhibited internationally, among others, at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, Rencontres d'Arles in Arles, the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam.
Brenner was born in Paris and grew up in France. In 1981, Brenner received a B.A. in French Literature and Social Anthropology from the Paris-Sorbonne University. He went on to study at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and received a M.A. in Social Anthropology, also awarded by the Sorbonne.
Brenner is the recipient of the Niépce Prize and his book Diaspora: Homelands in Exile won the 2004 Visual Arts Award from the Jewish Book Council.
At age 19, Brenner began photographing Orthodox Jews in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. Initially, he believed this was "authentic Judaism," but his approach quickly evolved into an exploration of the multiplicities of dissonant identities.
In 1981, Brenner began photographing Jewish communities around the world, exploring what it means to live and survive with a portable identity and how Jews adopted the traditions and manners of their home countries and yet remained part of the Jewish people. He spent 25 years chronicling the diaspora of the Jews across the world from Rome to New York, India to Yemen, Morocco to Ethiopia, Sarajevo to Samarkand. Brenner has published five books and directed three films. His work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world. He has been represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York since 1990.
Brenner’s opus Diaspora: Homelands in Exile was published as a two-volume set of photographs and texts by HarperCollins in 2003 and appeared in four foreign editions. Diaspora was also a major exhibition, which opened in New York at the Brooklyn Museum in 2003 and traveled to nine other cities in America, Europe and Mexico. In reviewing the book, The New Yorker wrote: “Brenner's work—elegiac, celebratory, irreverent—transcends portraiture, representing instead a prolonged, open-ended inquiry into the nature of identity and heritage.” NPR's Robert Siegel has described Brenner's work as "a celebration of the diversity and complexity of diaspora."
In 2006, Brenner founded This Place, a collective photography project aimed at recontextualizing Israel from multiple perspectives. The photographers working on this project include Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Carmen Sevilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spanish actress and singer Carmen Sevilla. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Carmen Sevilla
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Com...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, 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 woman sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Coffee With Dalí, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Spanish artist Salvador Dali enjoys a cup of coffee on the terrace of the Ritz Hotel, Madri...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Naumburg Bandshell, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features couples dance to a live band performing at the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, New York Cit...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Laguna Beach Surfers, California, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a surfer in the sea at Laguna Beach, California.
This is an estate stamped and hand numb...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gondolas moored in Venice, 1957. In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Maggiore island.
Captured with the exquisite clarity and charm that epitomiz...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe in Red), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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.
This exquisite p...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Antonio Ruiz Soler, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A flamenco dancer raises his hat in front of a poster advertising the virtuoso dancer Antonio (Antonio Ruiz Soler) in the national premiere of 'Ballet ...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gondolas moored in Venice, 1957. In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Maggiore island.
Captured with the exquisite clarity and charm that epitomiz...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Carmen Sevilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spanish actress and singer Carmen Sevilla. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Carmen Sevilla
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Com...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Carmen Sevilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spanish actress and singer Carmen Sevilla. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Carmen Sevilla
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Com...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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, Beverly Hills, 195...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Flight. Photograph, 30x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flight
Photograph, 30x48 cm
Category
1990s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Racquet Club Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss bandleader and restaurateur Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) with Dorothy Webb and Mrs Charles Rogers in the pool at the Villa Vera Spa & Racquet Club p...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the pier at the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Venice Vacation
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, 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.
This artwork DOES include a certificate of authenticity from the authenticating body, the estate
Collector will get the next number in the edition
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
12 x 12 inches
$1800
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
Modern estate edition with estate blindstamp signature and hand number in lower margin
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.
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Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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