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Portrait Photography For Sale
Artist: Slim Aarons
Artist: Alan Herr
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1990s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) socialising at a party in San Francisco. This is an estate stamp...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sugarbush Skiing, 1960 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

'Bettina Graziani' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Bettina Graziani (1964) Limited Edition Estate Stamped C Type Print (Photo By Slim Aarons) French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 – 2015) adjusting t...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, C Print

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

Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Premium Rates Apply. 1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Arm...
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1940s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
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1940s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Royal Winner, HM Queen Elizabeth II'
Located in New York, NY
1955: Prince Philip, captain of the Windsor Park Team, with the Windsor Cup after his team beat India during the Ascot week Polo tournament of which he is sponsor.The cup was present...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slopes & Trails, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955. This is an e...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slopes & Trails, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955. This is an e...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slopes & Trails, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955. This is an e...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slopes & Trails, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955. This is an e...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Coconut Fruit Cocktail - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change. This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives. All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty. 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Fruit Cocktail...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Gordon C. MacKenzie, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the race driver Gordon C. MacKenzie in Franconia, New Hampshire. This is an estate stampe...
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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 cat...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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

Nice Pool, 1955 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Currency fluctuations may cause the price to change. This is a contemporary print from the Getty Archive using Slim Aarons negatives. All prints feature a Slim Aarons blindstamp, and are accompanied by a Slim Aarons Certificate of Authentication issued by Getty. 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Please note that as part of the Estate's Collection, the price of this Stamped image has increased by 30% from edition 100/150. "Nice Pool" is a beautiful Limited Edition Premium Collection...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

On The Slopes In Stowe (1962) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
On The Slopes In Stowe (1962) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Five people relaxing on the terrace of the glass-fronted triangular Skaal House in the Stowe Mo...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Kings of Hollywood (Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Van Heflin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photograph is finally available again, for the first time in over a year. In this classic black and white photograph, 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 Romanoff's in Beverly Hills. Kings of Hollywood / New Year's at Romanoff's Slim Aarons Estate Edition 16 x 20 inches Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Purchaser will get the next number in the edition 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. 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 * Founded by Michael Romanoff (born Hershel Geguzin, 1890-1971), Romanoff's was a popular restaurant with Hollywood stars during the 1940s and 1950s, including director Alfred Hitchcock. Internal: Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Hollywood, Vintage Glamour, 1950s, Beverly Hills, Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Vintage Hollywood Glamour...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Britt Ekland, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film star Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund) in Porto Ercole, Italy. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stampe...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Palace Hotel, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people ice skating at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1989. This is an...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Donna Domitilla Ruspoli - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Rockefeller Brothers, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Rockefeller brothers in their Radio City, New York office. Left to right, Laurance (1910 - 2...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Barbados Bliss (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss (1976) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea Barbados, 1976. Addi...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive) Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Skiers at Verbier, 1964 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection. Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

'New England Skiing' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire, 1955...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A young woman waiting to go on a ski run in Stowe, Vermont, USA, 1962. Additional Information: Unframed ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Guests At The Furstenberg Villa (1975) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
Located in London, GB
Guests At The Furstenberg Villa (1975) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL (Photo By Slim Aarons) Elena Pratolongo, Prince Edward Egon von Furstenberg, Contessa Geronaffo, Luca Stu...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Lunch At Bali-li (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Lunch At Bali-li (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Mr and Mrs Amos Morrill and Mrs Ogden P. Starr having lunch at ‘Bali-li’ at the Mill Reef Club, Antig...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Water Babe, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: 'Town & Country' writer Meg O'Neil relaxes by the pool on the island of Mustique, in the Grenadines. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe in Red), Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle' had been released. This exquisite p...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sugarbush Slopes (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Slopes (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) A group of people sit relaxing in a chalet on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one of...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A young woman waiting to go on a ski run in Stowe, Vermont, USA, 1962. Additional Information: Unframed ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

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 - Ursula Andress - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Ursula Andress - Estate Stamped Swiss actress Ursula Andress poses in a hammock in Rome, Italy, circa 1955. ( Gorgeous print measuring a large 40 x 40" inches / ca 10...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Young Society (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Young Society (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Young matrons of Palm Beach, Florida. Most of them are wearing a gaily coloured Lilly Pulitzer shift, A...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Olimpia Hruska (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Olimpia Hruska (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Swedish model Olimpia Hruska, wearing a bikini, poses against a rock on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia,...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960. This is a...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Palm Bay Club, Estate Edition Photograph: 1950s Ski in New Hampshire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed Ski Service Shop and Check Room in New Hampshire, 1955. Slim Aarons New England Skiing Black and White Photog...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Photography

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

New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive) Two women recline on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) A bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. Add...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Marquess of Waterford (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Marquess of Waterford (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) The Marquess and Marchioness of Waterford and their elder son, the Earl of Tyrone, in the ground...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October ...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Fan Mail (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Fan Mail (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts o...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Backgammon By The Pool (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
Located in London, GB
Backgammon By The Pool (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL (Photo By Slim Aarons) Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a s...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Killer Joe Piro (1964) - Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Killer Joe Piro (1964) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) American dance instructor ‘Killer’ Joe Piro (1921 – 1989) dances past the park in New York, July 1964. ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960. This is a...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Skiing In St. Moritz, Palace Hotel'
Located in New York, NY
Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace Hotel sleigh on Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1983. Slim Aarons Skiing In St. Moritz 1983 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 w...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960. This is a...
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1960s American Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL (Photo By Slim Aarons) The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershor...
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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Von Furstenberg (1977) Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Von Furstenberg (1977) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) His Serene Highness Heinrich von und zu Furstenberg with his new wife Maximiliana von und zu Furstenberg in t...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria. Additional Information: Unframed ...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

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Color, Archival Pigment

Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
Located in London, GB
Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo by Slim Aarons) Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, on the island of Mustique, which he owns privately, March 1973. Addition...
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1970s Modern Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

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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