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
Poet's Paradise, Estate Edition T.S. Eliot in Love Beach, New Providence Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Anglo-American poet and playwright, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965) at Love Beach, New Providence Island while on his honeymoon in the Bahamas, 1957.
Complimentary de...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Party In Bermuda, Estate Edition (1970 on the Yacht Ondine in yellow and red)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic photograph of 70's vintage seagoing glamour, captured onboard the wood-trimmed deck of the yacht 'Ondine' in Bermuda, June 1970. Figures in the foreground are offset by cheery yellow and red. A United States yacht ensign flag flies the foreground, alongside the flag of Scania, the flag of the Swedish-speaking Finns (an unofficial red flag with a yellow cross used in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland to represent the Finland-Swedes., which may be flown in addition to the Finnish blue and white flag). Guests wear coral, navy, pastels, and whites, including classic vintage Pucci. The ship's name and home marina of New York are stenciled in gold on the white hull.
Slim Aarons
Party in Bermuda...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Capote at Home, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Capote At Home
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
American author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette at his apartment in Brooklyn Heights, New York, 1958.
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.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
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 *
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.
Internal: Vintage Literary photography, vintage writers, vintage glamour, vintage breakfast at tiffanys, in cold blood...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Dining Al Fresco On Capri, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco ...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Monte Carlo, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Friends dressed in white board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975.
In this classic Slim Aarons scene of 1970's glamour, a chic white vintage fashion and turquoise upholstery a...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Stocking Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A high angle view of people swimming next to the ketch 'Traveler II' , Stocking Island, Bahamas, 1964.
Over the course of a career lasting half a cent...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bettina Graziani, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French fashion model Bettina Graziani wading in the shallow waters of Costa Smeralda, pulling a small yacht behind her, in Sardinia, Italy, 1964.
Visual description: This iconic photograph features a woman in a green bikini swimsuit and yellow hair wrap leading a small boat with a red and white sail and sunfish logo. In the background is a bright white villa and small sculptural trees, in crisp contrast to the sparkling water turquoise pool. The bright red diagonal strips of the boat's sail draw the eye down and across the picture to figure, who creates small waves as she wades through the blue water towards the right edge of the picture plane, creating an overall satisfying sense of cheerful motion and activity.
Slim Aarons
Bettina Graziani
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
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
16 x 16 inches
$2150
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 French Fashion Model, Vintage European Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Boating, Vintage Holiday, 60s, Sardinia, Costa Smeralda, vintage summer. The Costa Smeralda ( 'Emerald Coast...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Nude with Zinc Vessel (The back view of a nude woman holding a zinc object)
By Eric Kellerman (b. 1944)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Eric Kellerman created this sensual nude photograph of a young nude woman with a large zinc vessel under her arm. It is pencil signed, titled and numbered 1 from an edition of 20. The photographer has stamped a red monogram next to his signature.
Eric Kellerman is a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for just over half his life. In 2008, he retired from academic life to spend more time on photography.
Kellerman works almost entirely in the studio and uses digital equipment from camera to print, although image manipulation is limited to darkroom-like processes. Specializing in the nude, he has a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, drama therapy, athletics, martial arts).
Kellerman used to consider his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. Now he's not so sure. He emphasizes line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. He likes to create ambiguity in his photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, he attempts to free the female body of its conventional associations.
He has been influenced by surrealism...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital
Slim Aarons 'Pool At Porto Rotondo'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Pool At Porto Rotondo
1982
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A sw...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Stocking Island, Bahamas Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A high angle view of people swimming next to the ketch 'Traveler II' , Stocking Island, Bahamas, 1964.
Slim Aarons
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed La...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Monte Carlo, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Friends dressed in white board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975.
In this classic Slim Aarons scene of 1970's glamour, a chic white vintage fashion and turquoise upholstery a...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Party In Bermuda, Estate Edition (1970 on the Yacht Ondine in yellow and red)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic photograph of 70's vintage socialite and party glamour, captured onboard the wood-trimmed deck of the yacht 'Ondine' in Bermuda, June 1970. Figures in the foreground are offset by cheery yellow and red. A United States yacht ensign flag flies the foreground, alongside the flag of Scania, the flag of the Swedish-speaking Finns (an unofficial red flag with a yellow cross used in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland to represent the Finland-Swedes., which may be flown in addition to the Finnish blue and white flag). Guests wear coral, navy, pastels, and whites, including classic vintage Pucci. The ship's name and home marina of New York are stenciled in gold on the white hull.
Slim Aarons
Party in Bermuda...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bettina Graziani, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French fashion model Bettina Graziani wading in the shallow waters of Costa Smeralda, pulling a small yacht behind her, in Sardinia, Italy, 1964.
Visual description: This iconic photograph features a woman in a green bikini swimsuit and yellow hair wrap leading a small boat with a red and white sail and sunfish logo. In the background is a bright white villa and small sculptural trees, in crisp contrast to the sparkling water turquoise pool. The bright red diagonal strips of the boat's sail draw the eye down and across the picture to figure, who creates small waves as she wades through the blue water towards the right edge of the picture plane, creating an overall satisfying sense of cheerful motion and activity.
Slim Aarons
Bettina Graziani
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
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
16 x 16 inches
$2150
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 French Fashion Model, Vintage European Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Boating, Vintage Holiday, 60s, Sardinia, Costa Smeralda, vintage summer. The Costa Smeralda ( 'Emerald Coast...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Monte Carlo, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Friends dressed in white board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975.
In this classic Slim Aarons scene of 1970's glamour, a chic white vintage fashion and turquoise upholstery a...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Positano Beach Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979.
Slim Aarons
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Es...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Motorboats In Antibes Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Motorboats moored on the coast near the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
Slim Aarons
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Ed...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A boucherie or butcher's shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, 1971.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity f...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carrying a wine in an ice bucket and the third carrying a menu, circa 19...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A waiter serves fruit to bathers, including socia...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Esther Williams Estate Ed. Photograph (Swimmer, TV Actress, Olympic Commentator)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
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
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. He's also been credited with inspiring the sun-soaked, escapist style of top Instagram influencers.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday.”
* 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: Vintage Hollywood images...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ride By Rows: photo of Black urban cowboy in Philadelphia city
By Ron Tarver
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This photograph of a Black cowboy in the urban city of Philadelphia pictured against the city's iconic row homes is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pop and Society: Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, and Desmond Guinness
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1968: From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed painting of a woma...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Portofino Harbor'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Madame Jean Serpieri
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of m...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Private Transport
1955
Fiber print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Patsy Pulitzer rummaging in her bag on the se...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Double Dutch #16: 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
2010s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Double Dutch #3: 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
Truman Capote at Home, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Truman Capote at Home
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Premium Rates Apply. Author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, ...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carrying a wine in an ice bucket and the third carrying a menu, circa 19...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Monocled Miss' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons
Monocled...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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
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
The Klosters, Estate Edition (Snowscape, Hotel Chesa Grischuna, Switzerland)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, Switzerland, 1963.
Slim Aarons
The Klosters
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition ...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Double Dutch #11: 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
The Klosters, Estate Edition (Snowscape, Hotel Chesa Grischuna, Switzerland)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, Switzerland, 1963.
Slim Aarons
The Klosters
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition ...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
The Klosters, Estate Edition (Snowscape, Hotel Chesa Grischuna, Switzerland)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, Switzerland, 1963.
Slim Aarons
The Klosters
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition ...
Category
1960s 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
Slim Aarons 'Vuccino and Rava in Capri' (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Vuccino and Rava in Capri
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Egrets in Flight: black & white photograph, silhouette of birds & trees in sky
By Ron Tarver
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This black and white photograph of birds in flight against the sky is part of artist Ron Tarver's long-term, ongoing project, " Land, Sea, Air," that explores the wide-ranging syste...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Il Canille' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. I...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Fabrizia Lanza di Mazzarino, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Donna Fabrizia Lanza di Mazzarino relaxing in a boat on a small lake in the grounds of the Villa Tasca d'Almerita in Sicily, Italy, in October 1984.
Slim Aarons
Fabrizia Lanza di Ma...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Backgammon, Estate Edition (Vintage 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
Slim Aarons 'Time For A Guinness'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: April 1959: Gloria Guinness enjoying a swim in her pool at Manalapan, Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticit...
Category
1950s 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
Slim Aarons 'Colorful Crew' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970. (Photo credit Slim Aarons / Getty Images)
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certific...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pool at Las Brisas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater view of the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Colorful Crew, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970. Bathers in bright pink and red vintage swimwear enjoy the afternoon on t...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Family Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1960: Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons
Fa...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography
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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...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Esther Williams, Estate Edition Photograph of Vintage Glamour (Green and White)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Legendary American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a white trampoline in a green swimsuit, circa 1956. This photograph features a cheerful interplay between graphic greens and white, and a midcentury graphic composition. This is the perfect classic Aarons photograph for lovers of vintage glamour...
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1950s Realist Figurative Photography
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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
Five Fireman 1940s Mid Century WPA Era Modern Baltimore Black & White Photograph
Located in New York, NY
Fine Fireman 1940s Mid Century WPA Era Modernism Baltimore Black & White Photograph. A. Aubrey Bodine (American, 1906-1970). Gelatin silver print, signed...
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1940s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Leonard Dalsemer, Lyford Cay, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
This image features a classic Slim Aarons contrast: between the manmade and the beauty of nature. It's an expertly composed scene of midcentury glamour that still feels casual and light. The azure blue of the sky contrasts with the deeper blues and aquas of the sea, and the sparkling turquoise of the pool. While human figures anchor the scene, the expertly captured contrast of natural grandeur and architectural geometry make this scene truly magnificent.
Image Description: In the background, leafy green palm trees and other trees blow in the breeze before a bright azure sky and slightly deeper blue ocean surf. In the foreground, two couples walk the pool deck in pastel pink and green clothing. Three children play in the turquoise pool. A verdant green hedge lines the front of the image, anchored by seven white florals in white pots. In the background is a pool cabana...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography
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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...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Portrait of Imogen Cunningham - Black & White Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
A stunning black and white photographic portrait of Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) by California photographer, Robert Werling (b. 1946). Signed and dated by the artist on the mat, low...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Realist figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Realist figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Ron Tarver, Graham Nash, and Milton Rogovin. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Lambda Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist figurative photography, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $105 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $3,000.
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