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Medium: Laser
Slim Aarons, Skiing Waiters (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing Waiters, 1960
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
Caption: Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a...
Category
1960s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Skiing Waitress
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing Waitress, 1960
C print
24 x 20 inches
Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slopes, carrying her skis on the way to a run, circ...
Category
1950s American Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Boating In Antigua'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actor Hugh O'Brian (left) hoists the sail on a dinghy, Antigua, West Indies, 1961.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the...
Category
1960s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda, Acrylic Polymer
Tyrolean Churches, Tyrol, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1990 winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Andreas Kirche and Liebfrauen Kirche in Kitzbuhel in the Austrian Tyrol, 1990.
This is ...
Category
1990s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tyrolean Churches, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1990 winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Andreas Kirche and Liebfrauen Kirche in Kitzbuhel in the Austrian Tyrol, 1990.
This is ...
Category
1990s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
El Dorado Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, circa 1959.
Slim Aarons
Mittersill Castle, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1959,...
Category
1950s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
El Dorado Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, circa 1959.
Slim Aarons
Mittersill Castle, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1959,...
Category
1950s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Drinks At Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Drinks At Gstaad, 1984
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Models from Parisian jeweller M. Gerard enjoying drinks on the terrace of The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerla...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Backgammon in Haiti'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon By The Pool, 1975
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Women playing backgammon while sunbathing at the Habitation Leclerc pool in Haiti, January 1975.
Estate ...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Fabrizia Lanza di Mazzarino (estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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.
Estate stamped and hand numbered...
Category
1980s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Skiing In New Hampshire' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In New Hampshire
1955 (printed later)
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Skiers at the Cranmore Mounta...
Category
1950s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Skier In Vermont (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Skier, 1964
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Handball in Central Park
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Handball in Central Park, 1947
C print
20 x 16 inches
A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground, Central Park, New York City, 1947.
Estate stam...
Category
1950s American Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Conca dei Marini (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Conca dei Marini, 1984
C-print
Estate edition of 150
A busy bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, French Stately Home
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
French Stately Home
1956
C print
40 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Portrait of C Z Guest (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
C. Z. Guest, 1955
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) beside the pool of her ocean-front estate...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Anchorage Hotel, Antigua (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Anchorage Hotel, Antigua, 1960
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A view of the Anchorage Hotel on Dickenson Bay, Antigua in the West Indies, 1960. Built by a Scottish c...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Verbier Vacation' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaro...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Sl...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Tyrolean Churches (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Tyrolean Churches, 1990
C print
estate edition of 150
The Andreas Kirche and Liebfrauen Kirche in Kitzbuhel in the Austrian Tyrol, 1990
Estate stamped and hand numbered ...
Category
1990s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Monte-Carlo-Swimwear (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Monte Carlo Swimwear,
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman in a cutaway swimsuit in Monte Carlo, August 1970.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 wit...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole, ' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Porto Ercole, 1980, Printed Later
Lambda C-print
Estate Edition of 150
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of ...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Two-Tone Dress
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two-Tone Dress
1960
C print
30 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Mrs Christopher Ward...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Dali's Party'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Dali's Party
1959
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
circa 1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dal...
Category
1950s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Holiday Hair Check
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holiday Hair Check, 1958
Silver gelatin print
20 x 16 inches
Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda, 1958. She is ...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Backgammon By The Pool (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon By The Pool, 1975
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Women playing backgammon while sunbathing at the Habitation Leclerc pool in Haiti, January 1975.
Estate ...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Relaxing At Lake Tahoe
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Estate Stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Kings of Holly...
Category
1950s American Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Skiing At Courchevel, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers on the slopes at Courchevel, France, 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Modern estate edit...
Category
1960s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Paradise Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Versailles Gardens and the French Cloister at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, opposite Nassau on the Bahamas, May 1968.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity in...
Category
1960s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Life in the Bahamas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Life in the Bahamas
1967
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A woman sitting in a hanging chair while havin...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Courchevel Mountain Buffet (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Moumtain Buffet, 1987
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of ‘Le Bateau Ivre’, Michel Rochedy (centre) of ‘Le Chabichou’, an...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice Gondolas
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Gondolas moored in ...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons A Poolside Story (50th Anniversary Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A Poolside Story (50th Anniversary Estate Edition), 1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Edition of 50
Special estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 50 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
In January 1970, lifestyle photographer Slim Aarons landed in Palm Springs, California on assignment for Holiday magazine. Slim photographed the writer Truman Capote at home, the city’s mayor leading an early morning horseback ride through Andreas Canyon, the chic scene at the Palm Beach Tennis Club, industrial
designer Raymond Loewy riding a dune buggy...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons A Relaxing Read (Cheryl Tiegs and Peter Beard)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
A Relaxing Read, 1982
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
Cheryl Tiegs...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Cortina d'Ampezzo Fashion'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cortina d'Ampezzo Fashion
1972
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
Estate sta...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Il Pellicano Pool, Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Hotel Il Pellicano
1986
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
The seasi...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Marisa Berenson in Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Marisa Berenson in Capri, 1968
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
American actress Marisa Berens...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Sugarbush Ice Bar
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sugarbush Ice Bar
1969
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
An outdoor bar at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, March 1969.
Estate stamped and hand numbered editio...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
NAMI_025 – Syoin Kajii, Japanese Photography, Ocean, Waves, Water, Nature, Art
Located in Zurich, CH
Syoin KAJII (*1976, Japan)
NAMI_025, 2004
Lambda Print with Diasec Face
100 x 150 cm (39 3/8 x 59 in.)
Edition of 6; Ed. no. 2/6
About NAMI:
NAMI is a series of photos of waves ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Sugarbush Chalet
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A group of people relaxing in a chalet in the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one of the largest ski resorts in New England, in Warren, Vermont, USA, circa 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Taking pictures of the rich and famous both before and after serving as a photographer for the US military magazine Yank during World War II. His work has been included in the publications Town and Country, Holiday, Venture and LIFE.
Aarons was known for the positive portrayals he gave to the people he photographed and was invited to high-society gatherings for exactly this reason. His subject matter covered American and European society as well as nobility and both minor and major stars of the day.
Print is also available in 30 x 30", 40 x...
Category
1960s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Esther Williams Poolside (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams in Florida in 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (191...
Category
1950s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Swimmers At Las Brisas (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Swimmers At Las Brisas, 1972
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Estate stamped and hand nu...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Yacht Holiday (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt's yacht in Marbella, 1967
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaro...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Keep Your Cool, Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool, 1978
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
Carmen Alv...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Backgammon by the Pool (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon by the Pool, 1957
Silver gelatin print
Estate edition of 150
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary Beth-Turner play backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm ...
Category
1950s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Chief of Protocol, 1961
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
The Honorable Angier Biddle Duke, Chief of Protocol for the State Department during the Kennedy Years, Novembe...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Exotic Hair Care (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Exotic Hair Care, 1971
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman combing her hair by a waterfall at Rose Hall, Jamaica, December 1971
Estate stamped and hand numbered ...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Backgammon
1972
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
G...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Skiing Waiters by Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing Waiters, 1960
40 x 40 inches
Lambda print
Estate Edition of 150
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man ...
Category
1950s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, 1960
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covere...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Skiers at Courchevel (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers at Courchevel , 1979
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
The ski resort of Courchevel, in the French Alps, 1979.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 w...
Category
1980s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Hotel du Cap
1976 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate edition of 150
An aerial view of the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antib...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Skier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Verbier Skier
1964
C print
Estate edition of 150
A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered...
Category
1960s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Joan Collins Relaxes, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Slim Aarons
Joan Collins Relaxes, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate...
Category
1950s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Joan Collins Relaxes, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Slim Aarons
Joan Collins Relaxes, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate...
Category
1950s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons riding a bike along the quayside in Hawaii with cameras slung around his neck during the filming of 'Mister Roberts' in 1954.
state stamped and hand numbered edition of ...
Category
1950s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pebble Beach Hunt, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders gather in the courtyard of Richard Collins' House for the stirrup cup libation, before the start of the Pebble Beach Hunt of English and American foxhounds, November 1976. The...
Category
1970s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1955: Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle.
Slim Aarons
Pink Accessory, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later...
Category
1950s Realist Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Holiday In Boston'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holiday In Boston
1975
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A sailing holiday on Barclay (Buzzy) H. Warburton III's brigantine 'Black Pearl', 1959. They are sailing off No...
Category
1970s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Vacation
1964
C print
Estate edition of 150.
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964
Estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category
1960s Modern Laser Photography
Materials
Lambda
Laser photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Laser photography available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add photography created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, orange and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Randal Ford, Tyler Shields, James Lewin, and Stefanie Schneider. Frequently made by artists working in the Modern, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Laser photography, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available
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