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Pebble Beach 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Pebble Beach 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Pebble Beach 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Pebble Beach Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size ...

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1970s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Marina Piccola, 1954 Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition
Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition

Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Underwater Drink, 1972 A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 60 x 40” / 152 x 101 cm - paper size Estate ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition -  Harbour Island
Slim Aarons Estate Edition -  Harbour Island

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 20 x 24" inches / ca 50.8 x 60.9 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size...

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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...

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1940s Modern Landscape Photography

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons Estate Edition -  Harbour Island
Slim Aarons Estate Edition -  Harbour Island

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-numbered in ink on the front Blind embo...

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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside In Arizona
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside In Arizona

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside In Arizona

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Poolside In Arizona Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...

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1970s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Barbados Bliss
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Barbados Bliss

Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Barbados Bliss

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Barbados Bliss by Slim Aarons Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, April 1976. 60 x 60 inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Pool At Las Brisas Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...

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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Giacomo Montegazza Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. 40 x 30” / 101 x 76 cm - paper size Estate St...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Giacomo Montegazza Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Hotel Sports Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Underwater Drink A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Coll...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - All Aboard
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - All Aboard

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - All Aboard

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-numbered in ink on the front Blind embo...

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1970s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Snowmass Village 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Snowmass Village 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Snowmass Village 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Snowmass Village Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March 1968. 30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Col...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Lech Ice Bar 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Lech Ice Bar 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Lech Ice Bar 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

The Hotel Pfefferkorn and Hotel Tannbergerhof are in the background. 30x30” / 76x76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 20...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Florida Palms 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Florida Palms 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Florida Palms 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Florida Palms A view of palm trees at a beach resort in Boca Raton, Florida, April 1978. 40x40” / 101x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sl...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Laguna Beach 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Laguna Beach 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Laguna Beach 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Laguna Beach Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Marina Piccola Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Faithful Couple 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Faithful Couple 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Faithful Couple 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Faithful Couple Singer Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones stand in front of a gilt framed portrait in Castletown Mansion, Eire, August 1968. 40x30” / 76x101 c...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Dining In Gstaad 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Dining In Gstaad 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Dining In Gstaad 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Dining In Gstaad Holidaymakers at a ski lodge at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Colourful Crew 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Colourful Crew 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Colourful Crew 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Colourful Crew A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Catherine Wilke, 1980 Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy. 40x30” / 76...

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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Capri Holiday 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Capri Holiday 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Capri Holiday 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Capri Holiday Swimmers off the Italian island of Capri, 1958. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Conca dei Marini 1984 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Conca dei Marini 1984 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Conca dei Marini 1984 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Conca dei Marini A bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aa...

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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Zermatt Skiing 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Zermatt Skiing 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Zermatt Skiing 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Ocean Club 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Ocean Club 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Ocean Club 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Ocean Club, 1968 Versailles Gardens at the Ocean Club, Nassau with terraced steps leading from a swimming pool to a 14th century French cloisters. 30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size ...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Countess On Deck 1982 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Countess On Deck 1982 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Countess On Deck 1982 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Countess On Deck Countess Gioia Gaetani-Lovatelli relaxes on deck during a yachting holiday in Porto Rotondo, 1982. 30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...

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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Hotel Sports  1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Hotel Sports  1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Hotel Sports 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Hotel Sports, 1958 Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Portofino 1985 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Portofino 1985 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Portofino 1985 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Portofino, 1985 The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Speedboat Landing 1973 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Speedboat Landing 1973 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Speedboat Landing 1973 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Speedboat Landing, 1973 A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - p...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Keep Your Cool 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Keep Your Cool 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Keep Your Cool 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Keep Your Cool, 1978 Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stampe...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero, 1967 El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Menton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Menton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Menton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Menton A shop selling beach paraphernalia in Menton, in southeastern France, 1957 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Prin...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Linda Shaw Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Linda Shaw Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Linda Shaw Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Linda Shaw Linda Shaw emerges from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Las Brisas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Las Brisas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Las Brisas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Las Brisas A villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, February 1972. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Marisa Berenson Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Marisa Berenson Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Marisa Berenson Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Marisa Berenson American actress Marisa Berenson sunbathing in Capri, 1968. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Andros Island Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas, 1957. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Marina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Marina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Marina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Marina A large marina complex, circa 1960. 16×16 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Laguna Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Laguna Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Laguna Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Laguna Beach Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Lillian Crawford Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
Lillian Crawford Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

Lillian Crawford Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Lillian Crawford Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Marina Piccola Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Marina Piccola Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Marina Piccola Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 20...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Fishing Boats Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Lim...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Exuma Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Exuma Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Exuma Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Exuma Holiday A yachting holiday on Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1964. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Li...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Blind Emboss For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the blind emboss you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. You can easily find an example made in the abstract style, while we also have 10 abstract versions to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for a blind emboss may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 19th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right blind emboss for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of gray, black, blue and beige. Creating a blind emboss has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Slim Aarons, Ray H. French, Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Alexandre Charpentier and George Barris are consistently popular. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in c print, silver gelatin print and lithograph can add an especially memorable touch. A large blind emboss can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller blind emboss, measuring 8.27 high and 5.52 wide, may better suit your needs.

How Much is a Blind Emboss?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a blind emboss in our inventory may begin at $185 and can go as high as $24,000, while the average can fetch as much as $3,350.

Slim Aarons for sale on 1stDibs

American photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.

Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.

Aarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars.

In the 1950s, Aarons opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. He was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo.

In a 2002 interview with The Independent, Aarons remarked, ''I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them.'' This access allowed him to document the rich and famous with their guard down, reading newspapers and magazines, talking on the phone, relaxing by the pool, and chatting with friends. The 1957 photograph The Kings of Hollywood, for example, which won him wide acclaim, shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing together as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Many of Aarons’s best-known images involve games and sports. In the 1972 Poolside Backgammon, two young women play the board game of the title against the backdrop of a majestic Acapulco estate. In 1958’s Cannes Watersports, a couple attempts to glide across the Golfe de la Napoule on Jet Skis, one expertly and one hanging on for dear life. And in Penthouse Pool, shot in Athens in 1961, a young woman wearing a yellow bathing cap smiles coyly at the camera, surrounded by friends and brightly colored seat cushions, with the Acropolis faintly visible in the background.

Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death.

Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Modern Art

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Color-photography for You

Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.

The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.

Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.

Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.

In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.