Slim AaronsCannes Watersports, Estate Edition1958
1958
About the Item
- Creator:Slim Aarons (1916-2006, American)
- Creation Year:1958
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:20 x 20 inchesPrice: $2,50024 x 24 inchesPrice: $3,00030 x 30 inchesPrice: $3,35040 x 40 inchesPrice: $3,950
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU148476892
Slim Aarons
American photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.
Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.
Aarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars. In the 1950s, he opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. Aarons was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo. In a 2002 interview with The Independent, he remarked, ''I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them.'' This access allowed Aarons to document the rich and famous with their guard down, reading newspapers and magazines, talking on the phone, relaxing by the pool, and chatting with friends. The 1957 photograph The Kings of Hollywood, for example, which won him wide acclaim, shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing together as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.
Many of Aarons’s best-known images involve games and sports. In the 1972 Poolside Backgammon, two young women play the board game of the title against the backdrop of a majestic Acapulco estate. In 1958’s Cannes Watersports, a couple attempts to glide across the Golfe de la Napoule on Jet Skis, one expertly and one hanging on for dear life. And in Penthouse Pool, shot in Athens in 1961, a young woman wearing a yellow bathing cap smiles coyly at the camera, surrounded by friends and brightly colored seat cushions, with the Acropolis faintly visible in the background. Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Los Angeles, CA
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 7 days of delivery.
- Morgan Library, New YorkBy Reinhard GörnerLocated in Los Angeles, CAMorgan Library II New York 50 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on lab...Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
MaterialsC Print, Lambda
- Shining Wall of Books Beinecke Library, New HavenBy Reinhard GörnerLocated in Los Angeles, CAReinhard Görner captures the monumentality of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. 3 sizes, below. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. Situated on Yale University's Hewitt Quadrangle, the building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1963. The building has been called a "jewel box", and also a "laboratory for the humanities". The Modernist structure contains furniture designed by Florence Knoll and Marcel Breuer. It is one of the largest buildings in the world entirely dedicated to rare books and manuscripts. An elevated public exhibition mezzanine surrounds the glass stack tower, and displays among other things, one of the 48 extant copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Two basement floors extend under much of Hewitt Quadrangle. The first sub-grade level, the "Court" level, centers on a sunken courtyard in front of the Beinecke, which features The Garden (Pyramid, Sun, and Cube). These are abstract allegorical sculptures by Isamu Noguchi that are said to represent time (the pyramid), sun (the disc), and chance (the cube). German large-scale photographer Reinhard Görner is known for his stunning, monumental-scale photography, which combine a sense of grandness with intimacy. He was born in 1950 in Leipzig, Germany, and he lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied drama, german literature and sinology in Munich and Berlin, and has been photographing architecture, interiors, and public spaces since 1981. Condition: New. Images are crisp and sharp. Image and details are not shown at full resolution for the protection of the artist. Reinhard Görner Shining Wall of Books...Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
MaterialsC Print, Lambda
- Morgan Library, New YorkBy Reinhard GörnerLocated in Los Angeles, CAMorgan Library New York 50 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label,...Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
MaterialsC Print, Lambda
- The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, EnglandBy Reinhard GörnerLocated in Los Angeles, CAThe Blue Books Oxford, England 2017 60 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 70 x 58.5 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 80 x 66.9 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Reinhard Görner captures the seduction and splendor that have attracted scholars, artists and historians to the Bodleian Libraries...Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
MaterialsC Print, Lambda
- Reinhard Görner: Shining Wall of Books, Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscript LibraryBy Reinhard GörnerLocated in Los Angeles, CAReinhard Görner Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale New Haven, Connecticut 3 sizes available Reinhard Görner captures the monumentality of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books...Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
MaterialsC Print, Lambda
- Underwater Drink, Las Brisas, Estate EditionBy Slim AaronsLocated in Los Angeles, CAA woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. Slim Aarons Underwater Drink Acapulco 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 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. #slimaarons #acapulco. Vintage scene...Category
1970s Realist Figurative Photography
MaterialsLambda
- "Riva I, Lac de Garde", photography by Luigi Visconti (39x55'), 2018By Luigi ViscontiLocated in Paris, FranceLambda C-type print, Diasec finishing. Luigi Visconti is keen on urban landscapes. He is allured in cities with architectural asperity and story to tell about their historical backg...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography
MaterialsC Print, Lambda
- Pool at Lake Tahoe (Aarons Estate Edition)By Slim AaronsLocated in New York, NYBathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (191...Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
MaterialsLambda
- Slim Aarons 'On The Slopes In Stowe' (Aarons Estate Edition)By Slim AaronsLocated in New York, NYOn The Slopes In Stowe 1962 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Five people relaxing on the terrace of the gl...Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
MaterialsLambda
- Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll' Mid-century Modern PhotographyBy Slim AaronsLocated in New York, NYPalm Beach Idyll 1963 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm B...Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
MaterialsLambda
- Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' Mid-century Modern PhotographyBy Slim AaronsLocated in New York, NYVerbier Vacation 1964 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountai...Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
MaterialsLambda
- Pool at Lake Tahoe (Aarons Estate Edition)By Slim AaronsLocated in New York, NYBathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (191...Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
MaterialsLambda