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Portrait Photography For Sale
Artist: Slim Aarons
Artist: Alan Herr
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Windsors In Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walking their dog in Portofino in 1951. This is an est...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast 1984 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Pool On Amalfi Coast A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Editio...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print, Color

Skiing Princess, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, Crisp de...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Winter Suntans 1960 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Winter Suntans Young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad. Paper size 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Bay Club - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Palm Bay Club A young woman at the Palm Bay Club, Miami, Florida, USA, circa 1965. Photo by Slim Aarons Silver gelatin print Paper size 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm printed 2...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Black and White

Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City. This i...
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1940s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City. This i...
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1940s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo (in white crochet, left) talking to a guest by the pool at Ne...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Lambda

Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Lambda

Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico. This is...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Princess Ruspoli, Lech am Arlberg, Austria
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Lucy Ruspoli stands in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech am Arlberg, Austria, February 1979. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350...
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1970s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Jackie K, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, Classic Pearls Jacqueline Kennedy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic portrait photograph by midcentury society photographer Slim Aarons, capturing young Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas
Located in London, GB
Pool At Las Brisas Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Esta...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Winter Suntans, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s group portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad. This is an estate stamped a...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Susanna Boylston Bolton'
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton 1965 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Caption: Susanna ‘Sukey’ Boylston Bolton, Newport...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego. This is an estate stamp...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine 1957
Located in London, GB
Capucine French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 – 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills. Paper size 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 4...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Jazz Scooter: Louis Armstrong and Lucille Brown in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome. Slim Aarons Jazz S...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Emulsion, Black and White, Digital

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Mazatlan Mansion 1984 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Mazatlan Mansion Eldorado, the Redo family villa in Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984. Paper size 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
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1980s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast 1984 - Oversize
Located in London, GB
Pool On Amalfi Coast A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Category

1980s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Windsors In Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walking their dog in Portofino in 1951. This is an est...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Eva Gabor, Estate Edition Photograph, Midcentury Classic Hollywood, Vintage Pink
Located in Los Angeles, CA
TV and film actress Eva Gabor takes a coffee in an unfinished bedroom in Bay Roc Hotel, Montego, Jamaica, 1950. In this classic image of vintage mid-century ...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Ladies Of Lyford Cay
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 ...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Pop and Society, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Kings of Hollywood (New Year's at Romanoff's) Estate Edition Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Catherine Wilke, Capri, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Capr...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Ladies Of Lyford Cay
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 24 x 24 inches $3000 ...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Catherine Wilke, Capri, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Capr...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Clifftop Pool, Barranca, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis' villa 'La Barranca', Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971. Slim Aarons 'Clifftop Pool' Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 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 * Internal: Slim Aarons, Acapulco, Vintage Poolside...
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1970s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Winter Suntans, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s group portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad. This is an estate stamped a...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a F...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

NIce Pool, Estate Edition (American Writer C. Z. Guest at Villa Artemis)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step into the world of casual elegance and midcentury glamour with Slim Aarons' evocative photograph, "Nice Pool" This image offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the opulent life of Ame...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Jean Serpieri at Tour La Reine (Queen's Tower), Athens, Greece, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
December 1961—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 modern Greece. The palace too originally belonged to King Otto, and was used as a summer home by the royal family. The room features neogothic architecture, a sky blue, red and gold decorative ceiling, black and white tile, and rich blue upholstery. Chromogenic Lambda print 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons Estate Edition Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency 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. 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. Tour la Reine is a former royal estate near Athens, Greece. The estate, consisting of 200 hectares (494 acres), was purchased by King Otto, the first king of modern Greece. He built there a small neogothic castle for his wife, Queen Amalia. The architecture resembles Hohenschwangau castle in Bavaria, built for Maximilian II of Bavaria, the brother of King Otto. As the castle is only one tower, it is called the Queen's Tower. After the abdication of King Otto, the estate was sold to the Serpieri family, who still own it. They have a dairy farm and wineyard on the estate. The wines bottled on the estate are called "Tour la Reine" (French for Queen's Tower). A nearby station of the Proastiakos suburban railway opened in 2014, Pyrgos Vasilissis, is named after the estate. Internal: Slim Aarons, Vintage Greece photography...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, Principe Dom Pedro De Orleans E Braganca, grandson of Brazilian emperor Pedro II. He is pictured at...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rudulph Ellis Carter holding a picnic in Newport in 1987. This is an estate stamped and ...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons Lola Albright's Penthouse
Located in New York, NY
Lola Albrights Penthouse, 1960 C print 20 x 16 inches Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 American singer and actress Lola Albright (1924 - 2017) at Richard La...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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C Print

Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

All Mine, Lake Worth, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Wort...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, "Sunbathing in Arizona" (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman sunbathing nude by Tom Darlington's pool in Carefree, Arizona, April 1967. Slim Aarons Sunbathing in Arizona Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition 40 x...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a F...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Saks Fifth Ave, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot. This is an estate...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Slim Aarons 'Joan Collins, Pink Accessory'
Located in New York, NY
circa 1955: Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball. This is a...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball. This is a...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball. This is a...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball. This is a...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Paraglider, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young blonde woman preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco. This is an estate stampe...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

All Mine, Lake Worth, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Wort...
Category

1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Portrait Photography for Sale on 1stDibs

Portrait photography can be a powerful part of your wall decor. Find a provocative and compelling portrait that speaks to you and you might find that the photograph will speak to your guests too.

Prior to the development of photography, which eventually replaced portrait paintings as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. In 1839, chemist and Philadelphia-based photographer Robert Cornelius didn’t have to wait very long for his portrait. In a matter of minutes, he captured what many believe to be the first portrait photograph. This shot was also the first self-portrait (or what we now call a “selfie”), and fine photography quickly became an art form.

Landscape photography, nude photography and portrait photography are very popular in today's modern interiors. A portrait can reveal a lot about the person in it. It can also add a narrative touch to your decor. You’ll often find that photographs of loved ones work well as decorative touches. A portrait of a family member or dear friend can help turn a house into a home, warming any space by evoking fond memories.

While family portraits can stir emotion, portraits of celebrities and important historical figures can also add a rich dynamic to your space. Portraits of famous musicians or intriguing actors hung in your dining room or home bar shot by Gered Mankowitz or Annie Leibovitz might inspire deep conversation over meals or drinks. Douglas Kirkland is also famous for his celebrity portraits. His photojournalism made him much sought after by Hollywood studios to document the filming of movies. In Kirkland’s powerful depiction of Hollywood stars, he excellently captures the glamour of their lives.

Other artists like Elliott Erwitt stand out by turning portraiture into a playful art form. Before graduating from high school in Hollywood, Erwitt had already begun to teach himself to take pictures, inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. In image after image, Erwitt captured what photographers call “the moment” with rapier wit and penetrating humanity.

Portrait photography can be incredibly expressive, setting the tone and mood for a room. And there are different ways of incorporating portrait photography into your interior decor. If you’re thinking about adding color photography to a bedroom or living room, the colors of the portraits can become part of the room’s palette, while portraits shot in black and white won’t disrupt an existing color scheme.

On 1stDibs, find a vast selection of portrait photography from different eras, including 1950s portraits, 1960s portrait photography and more.

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