Julie London Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Julie London Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1957 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Yacht Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Yacht Holiday Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marbella, 1967. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons P...
Archival Pigment, Color
Ardizzone’s House Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ardizzone’s House Overlooking Ardizzone’s House, on the water’s edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Phot...
Archival Pigment, Color
Treasure Cay Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Treasure Cay Treasure Cay resort on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, March 1986 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed...
Archival Pigment, Color
Jamaican Jewel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jamaican Jewel The swimming pool at the Jamaican home of Philadelphia jeweller Douglas Cooper, March 1970. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 P...
Archival Pigment, Color
Freeport Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Freeport Beach A beach in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
Hotel Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Taormina The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Archival Pigment, Color
Esther Williams Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 – 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Archival Pigment, Color
Saint-Tropez Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez The seafront at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
In Capri Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capri, circa 1958. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo b...
Archival Pigment, Color
Elephant Walk Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Elephant Walk Guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin’s villa in Bermuda, September 1977 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
Archival Pigment, Color
Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats A fisherman in his boat at a Sicilian harbour, 1975. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limit...
Archival Pigment, Color
Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Andros Island A family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in...
Archival Pigment, Color
Vail Skiers Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vail Skiers Skiers in Vail, Colorado, March 1964. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taormina A swimming pool in Taormina, Sicily, 1975. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
A Poolside Story Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Poolside Story Composite contact sheet of the Kaufmann House in Palm Springs 1970. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Prin...
Archival Pigment, Color
Acapulco Holiday Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Holiday Deckchairs lined up beside a swimming pool in Acapulco, February 1966. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons P...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bermuda Paradise Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Paradise Holidaymakers relaxing on a beach in Bermuda, 1967. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Li...
Archival Pigment, Color
Sugarbush Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bermuda Style Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Style A swimming pool in the grounds of a house in Bermuda, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Archival Pigment, Color
Beach Backgammon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach Backgammon Backgammon on the beach at the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, Italy, 1957. 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bermuda Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Beach A woman on a beach in Bermuda, 1957 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Dapper Cricketers Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dapper Cricketers A group of cricketers in team uniform, Bermuda, 1957 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025...
Archival Pigment, Color
Cannes Watersports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports Holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aa...
Archival Pigment, Color
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Minnie Cushing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Minnie Cushing American society girl Minnie Cushing carries her surfboard under her arm, September 1965. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment, Color
Adriatic Sailors Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Adriatic Sailors Young holidaymakers from Milan enjoy a sail on the Adriatic, 1956 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
Archival Pigment, Color
Dal Lake Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dal Lake Dal Lake in Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1961. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Eagle Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eagle Club Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969. 16 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
Archival Pigment, Color
Curling Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling Heinrich Dite and Leonie Heller play a variety of curling in Lech, Austria. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
Archival Pigment, Color
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. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Freeport Yachts Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Freeport Yachts Yachts in a marina in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Monocled Miss Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monocled Miss Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment, Color
Westin Excelsior Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Westin Excelsior The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Acapulco Rocks Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Rocks A view of a rocky outcrop on the coast at, Acapulco, Mexico, 1950. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
Britt Ekland Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Britt Ekland Film star Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund) in Porto Ercole, Italy. 1969 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
Verbier Skier Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Skier A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Archival Pigment, Color
Marisa Berenson Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marisa Berenson American actress Marisa Berenson in Capri, 1968. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Polo People Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo People Spectators and a competitor in a polo match, Argentina, December 1990. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
Cavallo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cavallo Holidaymakers’ yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, 1984. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment, Color
Laguna Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach A beachside garden in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Archival Pigment, Color
Capri Bay Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Bay Araglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri, circa 1958. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...
Archival Pigment, Color
Cotton Bay Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cotton Bay The Campbells’ pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bergese House Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bergese House The sumptuous garden of the Bergese villa in Marbella, southern Spain, August 1967 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Arts Festival Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Arts Festival The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Capri Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Holiday Swimmers off the Italian island of Capri, 1958. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to...
Archival Pigment, Color
Buzios Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Buzios' Holidaymakers in Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, January 1983. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bermuda Style Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Style A swimming pool in the grounds of a house in Bermuda, 1957 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 20...
Archival Pigment, Color
Caracalla Therme Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Caracalla Therme A woman experiences the Caracalla Therme spa in Baden-Baden, September 1990. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sli...
Archival Pigment, Color
Ice Bar Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ice Bar The ski resort of Courchevel, in the French Alps, 1979. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Princess Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria, 1968. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...
Archival Pigment, Color
Poolside Drinks Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Drinks Guests around the pool at Dorothy Laughlin’s Santa Barbara home, 1975. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Biarritz Seafront Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Biarritz Seafront The beach and seafront at Biarritz, France, 1960. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Lim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Curacao Children Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curacao Children Three local children sitting on a low wall, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, January 1979. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
Archival Pigment, Color
Barbados Bliss Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, 1976 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment, Color
Porto Rotondo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Rotondo Pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aar...
Archival Pigment, Color
Colourful Crew Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colourful Crew A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim A...
Archival Pigment, Color
Boca Raton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boca Raton A swimming pool in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, circa 1978. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
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.
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.
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.