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Realist Portrait Photography

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$2,400
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$3,900
Water Babe, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
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

Water Babe, Estate Edition
Water Babe, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Water Babe, Estate Edition, 1989

$5,400
Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1987, printed later

$3,600
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955, printed later

$1,800
Joan Collins Relaxes - (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aaron...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Joan Collins Relaxes - (Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons
Joan Collins Relaxes - (Aarons Estate Edition), 1955

$2,150
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955, printed later

$2,400
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955, printed later

$3,000
Habitation Leclerc
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers walking down steps to the swimming pool at Habitation Leclerc, Haiti, January 1975. They are followed by a waiter with cocktails. Complimentary dealer shipping to your frame...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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C Print

Habitation Leclerc
Habitation Leclerc

Slim Aarons
Habitation Leclerc, 1975

$5,400
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1979, printed later

$3,900
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...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1955

$4,200
Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming white Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, Greece, 1967. Posing with him, four models show off colorful dresses of red, salmon, turquoise, and pastel yellow. This iconic photo depicts a scene of vintage glamour set against a classic Greek blue sky. Slim Aarons Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Estate Edition of 150 1967, Printed Later 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 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. Site Details: The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon. There is evidence of the establishment of sanctuaries on the cape from as early as the 11th century B.C. Sounion’s most prominent temples, the Temple of Athena and the Temple of Poseidon, are however not believed to have been built until about 700 B.C., and their kouroi (freestanding Greek statues of young men) date from about one hundred years later. The material and size of the offerings at the Temple of Poseidon indicate that it was likely frequented by members of the elite and the aristocratic class Approximately 13 kilometers south of Thorikos in the southern most region of Attica, the deme of Sounion is most well known for its sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena. Its placement at the foot of Attica allowed it to function as a border deme as it could easily been seen by ships nearing Attica. The temple of Poseidon at Sounion was constructed from 444 to 440 BC. This was during the ascendancy of the Athenian statesman Pericles, who also rebuilt the Parthenon in Athens. The temple of Poseidon was built on the ruins of a temple dating from the Archaic period, about which the Greek geographer Strabo noted: "Geraistos [in Euboia] . . . is conveniently situated for those who are sailing across from Asia to Attica since it is near Sounion. It has a sanctuary (hieron) of Poseidon, the most notable of those in that part of the world, and also a noteworthy settlement. The main temple we see today is mainly made out of marble with an intricate taenia (the fancy borders on the ceiling). The marble is an Agrileza marble. The marble used on the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion came from the marble quarries, a place where marble is removed from the earth, in the Agrileza mines. This type of marble was 'coarsed grained' meaning that it had a rougher texture than smooth, shiny marble. As indicated by literary and archaeological evidence, the "leveled summit" on the coast of Cape Sounion was likely a cult site from as early as the end of the eighth century BC. Two cult centers dedicated to Athena and Poseidon respectively are believed to have been established by 700 BC. Subject: The name of Greek fashion designer...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition, 1961

$4,200
Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1966-printed later

$3,600
Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sarah Marson Williams enjoying a cocktail on the beach at the Hilton Hotel, Needhams Point,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1976, printed later

$3,900
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1987, printed later

$4,200
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1987, printed later

$3,900
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1987, printed later

$2,400
Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sarah Marson Williams enjoying a cocktail on the beach at the Hilton Hotel, Needhams Point,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1976, printed later

$4,200
Elizabeth Campbell Parks, New York, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Phot
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Elizabeth Campbell Parks and Leslie, her daughter with the photographer and filmmaker Gor...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Elizabeth Campbell Parks, New York, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Phot
Elizabeth Campbell Parks, New York, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Phot

Slim Aarons
Elizabeth Campbell Parks, New York, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Phot, 1971, printed later

$2,400
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, a party of skiers adjourning for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, in 1961, one year after th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph, 1961, printed later

$5,400
Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition 60 x 60 inches $5100 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $3000 Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * 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 * Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956. In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart". The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), Printed Later

$5,700
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955-printed later

$3,600
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Materials

Lambda

Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955-printed later

$3,000
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category

1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955-printed later

$1,800
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

Materials

Lambda

Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955-printed later

$2,400
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast', 1959, printed later

$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (New Year's at Romanoff's)
By Slim Aarons
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

Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (New Year's at Romanoff's)
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (New Year's at Romanoff's)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (New Year's at Romanoff's), 1957

$2,400
Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
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, Beverly Hills, 195...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail', Estate Edition
Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail', Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail', Estate Edition, 1952

$1,800
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California. This is an estate ...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1956, printed later

$1,800
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
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

Ladies Of Lyford Cay
Ladies Of Lyford Cay

Slim Aarons
Ladies Of Lyford Cay, 1974

$3,900
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955-printed later

$3,000
Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1966-printed later

$3,900
Pop and Society, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
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

Pop and Society, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Estate Edition
Pop and Society, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pop and Society, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Estate Edition, 1968

$4,200
The Marlboroughs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 - 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the family seat in Oxford...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

The Marlboroughs, Estate Edition
The Marlboroughs, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
The Marlboroughs, Estate Edition, 1955

$1,800
Slim Aarons 'Family Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1960: Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Family Pool Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Collector will get the next number in the edition 60 x 60 inches $5100 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 16 x 16 inches $2150 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons Lake Forest, Vintage Poolside Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Vintage Holiday, 60s, vintage Illinois...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Family Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons 'Family Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons 'Family Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1957

$3,600
Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to r...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1981

$3,900
Winter Suntans, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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

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Lambda

Winter Suntans, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Winter Suntans, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Winter Suntans, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1960, printed later

$4,200
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An unknown guest at a New Year's Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and s...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1968

$1,800
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An unknown guest at a New Year's Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and s...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1968

$2,400
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. Slim Aarons Estate E...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition, 1970

$3,000
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...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Pebble Beach Hunt, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Pebble Beach Hunt, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pebble Beach Hunt, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1976

$1,800
The Ali Children, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
August 1980: In Spanish style riding clothes from l to r; TRH Princess Rajwa Ali, Princess Basma Ali and Prince Bin Ali. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Estate Editi...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

The Ali Children, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
The Ali Children, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
The Ali Children, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1980

$1,800
Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Modern es...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1959

$1,800
Britt Ekland, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1969, Swedish actress Britt Ekland in Porto Ercole, Italy. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the ...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Britt Ekland, Estate Edition
Britt Ekland, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Britt Ekland, Estate Edition, 1969

$5,400
Racquet Club Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss bandleader and restaurateur Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) with Dorothy Webb and Mrs Charles Rogers in the pool at the Villa Vera Spa & Racquet Club p...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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C Print

Racquet Club Pool
Racquet Club Pool

Slim Aarons
Racquet Club Pool, 1961

$1,800
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1979, printed later

$3,000
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1979, printed later

$2,400
No Surrender, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features children playing 'Ring a Ring o' Roses' on a street marked with graffiti reading 'No Surr...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

No Surrender, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
No Surrender, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
No Surrender, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1962, printed later

$2,400
Barbados Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mr and Mrs Nigel van Wieck take a stroll along a beach in Barbados, April 1976 Visual Description: A couple walks along a white and natural sand beach...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Barbados Beach, Estate Edition
Barbados Beach, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Barbados Beach, Estate Edition, 1976

$5,400
NIce Pool, Estate Edition (American Writer C. Z. Guest at Villa Artemis)
By Slim Aarons
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

NIce Pool, Estate Edition (American Writer C. Z. Guest at Villa Artemis)
NIce Pool, Estate Edition (American Writer C. Z. Guest at Villa Artemis)

Slim Aarons
NIce Pool, Estate Edition (American Writer C. Z. Guest at Villa Artemis), 1955

$4,485
Coffee With Dalí, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Spanish artist Salvador Dali enjoys a cup of coffee on the terrace of the Ritz Hotel, Madri...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Coffee With Dalí, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Coffee With Dalí, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Coffee With Dalí, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955-printed later

$1,800
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York. This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph

Slim Aarons
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph, 1955, printed later

$4,200
Slim Aarons, "Sunbathing in Arizona" (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
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

Slim Aarons, "Sunbathing in Arizona" (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons, "Sunbathing in Arizona" (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, "Sunbathing in Arizona" (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1967

$3,900
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...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1955

$1,800
Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jack and GeeGee Entz beneath the rose-canopied steps which lead to the entrance of the tennis courts at the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, near Rome, Italy, ...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli
Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli

Slim Aarons
Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli, 1983

$4,200
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
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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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955, printed later

$2,400
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1954 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American actors Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland attending a house party in Beverly Hills. This i...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1954-printed later

$3,600
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An unknown guest at a New Year's Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and s...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, 1968

$3,000
Pevero Golf Corse
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Pevero Golf Corse, 1978 C-print Estate edition of 150 1978, The Pevero Golf Course, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certif...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Pevero Golf Corse

Slim Aarons
Pevero Golf Corse, 1978

$3,600

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