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Realist 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
Patrick Lichfield, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1968: Patrick, Earl of Lichfield, with a friend in Capri, Italy. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Tropical Mustique, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered an...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Freeport Yachts
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Yachts in a marina in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969. 40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 20 x 30 inches $3000 10 x 12 inches $1350 Complimentary dealer shipping to ...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Myanmar 1: child Buddhist monk playing by Southeast Asia temple landscape
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This photograph is from among Vincent Dixon's series created in Borneo, Myanmar, Paris, Pushkar, Los Angeles, New York, London, Miami, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid,...
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2010s Realist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Palm Springs Life, 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 Photography

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Lambda

Buckleys in Switzerland, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American author and journalist William F. Buckley Jr. and his wife Patricia take a sleigh ride from the Chateau de Rougemont in Switzerland, 1986. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certi...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D'Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estat...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Ardizzone's House, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Overlooking Ardizzone's House, on the water's edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Henry R Kravis, Diana Beattie, Francesca Stanfill, Peter Tufo, Carolyne Roehm, Dick Beattie and Marie-Louise Scio at the Scio family villa in Porto Ercole, September 1986. Slim Aar...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Ardizzone's House, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Overlooking Ardizzone's House, on the water's edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

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

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Lambda

Waiting in the Shade, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Courchevel, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A ski resort in Courchevel in the French Alps, circa 1970. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector...
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1970s Realist 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 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 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 Photography

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Lambda

Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera bea...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Funk In Tuscany, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian fashion designer, model and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Italian Brionvega Radiofonograph RR126 stereo system, Porto Ercole, Tus...
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1960s Realist 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 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 Photography

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Lambda

Patrick Lichfield, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1968: Patrick, Earl of Lichfield, with a friend in Capri, Italy. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Port Life, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A man stops to watch a young woman tie her sandals on the pavement in Portofino marina, August 1977. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and s...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Bettina Graziani, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Number...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Franco Zeffirelli, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1985, Film director Franco Zeffirelli at his home, Tre Ville, in Positano, Italy. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included ...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Pool At Villa Gli Arieti, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The pool at the Villa Gli Arieti, home of Lamberto Micangeli, in Ansedonia, near Porto Ercole, Italy, September 1986. In the distance is his daughter Marina's 16th century castle, To...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet'
Located in New York, NY
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Ma...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Montecatini, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Pool At Villa Gli Arieti, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The pool at the Villa Gli Arieti, home of Lamberto Micangeli, in Ansedonia, near Porto Ercole, Italy, September 1986. In the distance is his daughter Marina's 16th century castle, To...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Commander Whitehead
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Commander Edward Whitehead (1908 - 1978), the public face of Schweppes, leans on a silver Rolls Royce at Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Commander Whitehead served in ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Caprice On Capri, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1958: Singer and actress Caprice Chantal (right) on the Italian island of Capri. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aa...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Villa Vera
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The bar at the Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club in Acapulco, January 1968. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer thi...
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1960s Realist Photography

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C Print

Saint-Tropez Boucherie, French Riviera, Estate Edition Photograph, Classic Red
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Discover the quintessence of French Riviera charm in Slim Aarons' iconic photograph, 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie,' on Rue des Commercants, Saint-Tropez, 1971. This image is a beautiful i...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Avro Lancaster Bomber W4131 original 1943 photograph undercarriage
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Lancaster Bomber...
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1940s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Avro Lancaster Bomber original 1943 silver gelatin photograph de-icing system
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Lancaster Bomber...
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1940s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Lake Tahoe Trip, Estate Edition Photograph, Red, Green, White Canoes Zephyr Cove
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. Three young woman are pictured in their red, turquoise and white canoes in the sunshine. Zephyr Cove. Lake Tahoe Canoes / Lake Tahoe Trip Slim Aarons Estate Edition Printed Later Framing options available 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 * Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. It’s known for its beaches and ski resorts. On the southwest shore, Emerald Bay State Park contains the 1929 Nordic-style mansion Vikingsholm. Along the lake’s northeast side, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park includes Sand Harbor Beach and Spooner Lake, a gateway to the long-distance Tahoe Rim Trail. Internal Vintage Canoeing, Vintage Sport, Midcentury Modern, Vintage Lake Tahoe, Vintage Glamour, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Zephyr Cove, American Realist, Vintage Sport, Midcentury sport, Midcentury Glamour, California Nevada State Line, Midcentury Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Trip, Vintage Watersports...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

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 Photography

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Lambda

Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Island Lookout
Located in Los Angeles, CA
May 1968: Nattily dressed, W Clifford Klenk with his telescope and his wife, Hope in their Hog island house. 30 x 30 inches $3350 24 x 24 inches $3000 20 x 20 inches $2500 12 x 1...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Poolside Party, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certific...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Spinnaker Sailing, Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spinnaker sailing on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, August 1973 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Chalet Costi (Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Sli...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Party on the Steps, Estate Edition, Palm Springs Poolside series
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1970: Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. Partygoers in vintage desert glam and sportswear enjoy the afternoon in a in pastel ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Lancaster Bomber Lily Mars 1943 original silver gelatin photograph
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage warbird aeroplane posters, photographs and paintings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Lancaster LL678 ‘Lily Mars’ – 2 Original Silver Gelatin photograph, December 1943 12 x 16 cm Stamped to reverse ‘The Photograph has been passed by Censor’ ‘Copyright This TP copyright illustration from “The Aeroplane” must not be reproduced without the written permission of Temple Press Ltd’. ‘Lancaster II heavy bombers are now flying with RAF BOMBER COMMAND.’ 300 Lancaster II aeroplanes were made, fitted with Bristol Hercules radial engines...
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1940s Realist Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Relaxing at Lake Tahoe' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959 (printed later). Relaxing at Lake Tahoe Slim Aarons Estate Edition 40x40 inches Slim Aarons Estate Edition N...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachu...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Commander Whitehead
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Commander Edward Whitehead (1908 - 1978), the public face of Schweppes, leans on a silver Rolls Royce at Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Commander Whitehead served in ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Peace And Plenty
Located in Los Angeles, CA
People by the pool at Club Peace And Plenty, Georgetown on the island of Great Exuma, Bahamas, April 1967. 40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 20 x 30 inches $3000 10 x 12 ...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Skiers at Verbier, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 1964. This is an est...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Villa del Balbianello, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Lake Como, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Immerse yourself in the tranquil luxury of Lake Como with this exquisite Slim Aarons photograph featuring Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988), captured at his Villa del Balbianello...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Chateau Saint-Martin, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Breakfast on the verandah of the Chateau Saint-Martin, a luxury hotel in Vence on the Cote d'Azur, France, 1986. The building was once a Commanderie of the Knights Templar, dating ba...
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1980s Realist Photography

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Lambda

La Concha Beach Club
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A view of La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to...
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1970s Realist Photography

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C Print

Slim and Sphinx, Estate Edition: New York DJ Slim Hyatt at Shepheard's
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1964: New York DJ Slim Hyatt at work in Shepheard's night club whose decor recreates a famous Cairo bar. Two gold and turquoise sphinxes flank the DJ, who is posed behind two record players and before a glittering sculpture. Hyatt is often credited as the first disco DJ in the US. Initially hired by Oliver Coquelin upon the opening of Le Club, Hyatt quickly became one of the most revered figures in the emerging disco scene. He also DJed at Doubles from 1984 to 1995, and has been called by the painter and bandleader Peter Duchin “the first discotheque artist in New York." Slim and Sphinx, 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Edition Photograph Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Chromogenic Lambda C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color Paper weight 210gms Matte Satin Surface Printed Later Collector 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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. 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. Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun. Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism. 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: Vintage New York, Vintage glamour, 60's glamour, Vintage DJ...
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1960s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Villa Nirvana
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons, Skiing Waiters (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carring a wine in an ice bucket and the third carrying a menu, ...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Acapulco Rocks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to o...
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1950s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Elephant Walk, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin's villa in Bermuda, September 1977. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity i...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Underwater Drink, Las Brisas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3360 ...
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1970s Realist Photography

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Lambda

Realist photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Pico Garcez, Kind of Cyan, and Massimo Listri. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Lambda Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist photography, so small editions measuring 3.94 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $105 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $3,000.

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