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
Slim Aarons, Pool In St Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at a villa in St Tropez, France, circa 1970.
Slim Aarons
St Tropez Pool
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x ...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Palermo (formerly Taormina Pool), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This rich, vibrant Slim Aarons Estate Edition photograph depicts a swimming pool at the glamorous Villa Igiea, in the Sicilian cultural, economic and tourism capital of Palermo, on t...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled (East Side Series)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original silver gelatin print from the 1960's by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin.
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Esther Williams Poolside, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams, in a Florida swimming pool, 1955
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary deal...
Category
1950s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Down To The Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of women going down the the steps to the pool at Warren Avis' villa, 'La Barranca' at Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, April 1979.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer,...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
C Print
Portofino Villa, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Portofino, Italy, August 1977.
Portofino Villa
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic L...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Yachts in Sardinia, Italy)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990.
Visual Description: Yachts moored in a turquoise cove offset by deeper blue sea, surrounded by the dramatic cliffs of a rocky shore.
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.
Saint-Tropez, France is a glamorous vacation destination west of Nice and east of Marseille in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Southern France. The adjacent narrow body of water is the Gulf of Saint-Tropez.
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.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
Slim Aarons
Saint-Tropez Beach
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
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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 Poolside Photography, Porto Rotondo, Vintage Seascape, Vintage Sardinia, Vintage Yachts...
Category
1980s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
Category
1950s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the ...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Zermatt Skiing, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive t...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ski Slope In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers (bottom) on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Co...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Verbier Vacation, Estate Edition, Swiss Alps Mountain Snow Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss Alps, 1964: This landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holiday-makers taking in the sunset on a white snowy mountain top in Verbier, Swit...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Avro Lancaster Bomber VN-N R5689 original press photograph 1942 for Aeroplane
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".
Lan...
Category
1940s Realist Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Contemporary Fine Art Sea Boat Image Photo on premium paper "Tranquil Voyage"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary modern fine art seascape photo depicting a boat was captured by French artist and photographer Natalya Mougenot in August 2025 in the south of France, and makes par...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for b...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons: Snowmass Village Helicopter (SLim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Snowmass Gathering
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
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.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
* We are pleased to represent 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 *
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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, Snowmass Village, Pitkin County, Colorado, Ski Photography, Helicopter, Winter Scene, Snowscape, Snow Photography...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, View from Il Pellicano (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off the coast of Porto Ercole, Tuscany, in July 1991. The ...
Category
1990s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline.
This ...
Category
1950s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sea Drive, Estate Edition, Seascape Photograph with Amphicar in Nassau
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1967—Slim Aarons captures film producer Kevin McClory taking his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an Amphicar across the harbour at Nassau. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included.
Slim Aarons
Sea Drive
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Three sizes available.
Framing options available, complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Kevin O'Donovan McClory (8 June 1924[1] – 20 November 2006) was an Irish screenwriter, film producer, and film director. McClory was best known for producing the James Bond film Thunderball.
Internal: Vintage Nassau, Vintage Yachting, Vintage Boating, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Sport Photography, Coastal, Vintage Sixties, 1960s, 60s photography...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Pool In St Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at a villa in St Tropez, France, circa 1970.
Slim Aarons
St Tropez Pool
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x ...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Curling, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curling, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Heinrich Dite and L...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
By Slim Aarons
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...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Deux tomates", photography by Thierry Genay, 2016
Located in Paris, France
"Citron et verre" by Thierry Genay
Thierry Genay's photography is heir to a style of painting which, in the absence of noble and sublime motifs, is nour...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Pigment
Contemporary Minimalist Summer Landscape Photography Photo "Golden Afternoon"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary serene nature photograph "Golden afternoon" was taken by French artist and photographer Natalya Mougenot in July 2025 during a quiet afternoon walk in a park in Lyo...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Contemporary fine art photography/ photo still life "Le french croissant"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary fine art still life minimalist photograph “Le French Croissant” was captured by French artist and photographer Natalya Mougenot, and belongs to her ongoing series d...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A waiter serves fruit to...
Category
1950s Realist Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Cavallo Bathers, Corsica' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1984, The island of Cavallo, off the coast of Corsica. This image sets a tone of subtle adventure and glamour.
Cavallo Bathers
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Estate stamped and hand n...
Category
1980s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Social Call' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1972—Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico.
Social Call
30 x 40 inches
Estate Edition
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Contemporary minimalist still-life photo on premium paper "Glass by the blue"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary minimalist still-life image, documenting a fleeting moment of calm, was taken by French artist Natalya Mougenot during her journey through Italy. A single glass of ...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print of a Mushroom by Alexander Lowry
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print of a Mushroom by Alexander Lowry
High-contrast silver gelatin print showing the underside of a mushroom on the forest floor by Alexander Lowry (1937-201...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
$292 Sale Price
35% Off
Carmen Sevilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spanish actress and singer Carmen Sevilla. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Carmen Sevilla
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Com...
Category
1950s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
"Mapping the Walk - May to August" Photographic Flower Study in Blue and White
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Mapping the Walk - May to August" by Judith Allen-Efstathiou is an exquisite cyanotype photographic print on mulberry paper in deep blue and white of wildflowers abstracted. Highl...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Photographic Paper
Modern fine art sea beach photo on matte premium paper "The sea, my source"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
"The sea, My source"
Medium: Archival pigment print on premium matte photo paper
Dimensions: 20 x 27 cm / 7.8 x 10.6 inches (unframed)
Edition: Limited Edition of 50
Signed on the ba...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Contemporary Fine Art Sea Boat Beach Image Photo on premium paper "Silent sail"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary fine art photograph, capturing a moment of serene coastal silence, was taken by French artist and painter Natalya Mougenot in August 2025 on the southern shores of ...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Modern fine art sea coast photo photography matte premium paper "Endless sea""
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
"Endless Sea": Photograph by Natalya Mougenot, July 2025 – Italian Coastline
Medium: Archival pigment print on premium matte photo paper
Dimensions: 20 x 27 cm / 7.8 x 10.6 inches (...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986, centre, standing), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo (second from right)
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.
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.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
Slim Aarons
Palm Springs Party...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
A Painted Tipi
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Goldtone photograph on glass printed with permission from his foundation in 1999-2000 from his negatives.
Frames were reproduced in the same styl...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Photography
Materials
Glass
Contemporary minimalist still life fruit photo (photography) "Just an orange"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this evocative still life minimalist photograph "Just an orange", French artist and photographer Natalya Mougenot captures a moment of serene simplicity: a single, radiant orange ...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Contemporary Minimalist Still life Photo "Espresso, biscuit.Whst else ? "
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary, evocative fine art photograph, titled "Espresso, Biscuit. What Else?", was captured by French artist and photographer Natalya Mougenot as part of her ongoing serie...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Beach at St Tropez
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977.
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Antarctica #30, Iceberg, Limited Edition Photograph, Blue, Travel, unframed
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
Antarctica #30 is a limited edition photograph which is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 20x30 and it is printed on 24x36 archival pa...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rita Aarons, Hawaii, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1955s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, during the filming of 'Mister Roberts' in Ha...
Category
1950s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Japan – Two young women playing hanetsuki (badminton) – Hand-colored photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Two young women playing hanetsuki (badminton/battledore/shuttlecock), studio photograph.
Yokohama, Japan: c 1890.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
"Nude I&II" - limited edition finest quality - color photograph - set of two
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Kseniia Kokovashina - "Nude I&II" set of two.
Beautiful limited edition art photography.
Printable in colour or black/white.
Editions: 20.
Tec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Surfing in Biarritz
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 - 2007) with his surfboard on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of au...
Category
1960s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Catherine Wilke, Capri, Italy, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticke...
Category
1980s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Entertaining, 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 guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The ...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Catherine Wilke, Capri Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticke...
Category
1980s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Catherine Wilke, Italy, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticke...
Category
1980s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Entertaining, 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 guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The ...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Governing Couple
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Reagan and her husband film star and Governor of California, Ronald Reagan (later the 40th President of the USA) in Acapulco, mexico.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
C Print
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
Category
1950s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Portrait of Black Dancer (male nude) Grainy version
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roy Blakey (1930-2024). Portrait of Black Dancer, Grainy Version, ca. 1972.
Original photographic print on paper, image measures 11 x 14 inches. Framed measurement 12 x 15 inches. ...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$960 Sale Price
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Skiing at St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector w...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
Lambda
Modern fine art sea photo on matte premium paper "Buyos and yachts at rest"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
"Buoys and Yachts at Rest"
Medium: Archival pigment print on premium matte photo paper
Dimensions: 20 x 27 cm / 7.8 x 10.6 inches (unframed)
Edition: Limited Edition of 50
Signed on ...
Category
2010s Realist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Japan – Woman in winter outfit with umbrella (background of Mt. Fuji)
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan.
Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/4 x 8 inches (259 x 201 mm), unmounted; light cockling at corners.
[Nagasaki University Library, Catalog Number : 468].
A young wom...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Photography
Materials
Watercolor, Photographic Paper
Gasthof Post Pool, Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Slim Aarons
Gasthof Post Pool
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Est...
Category
1970s Realist Photography
Materials
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.