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
Alice Topping Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Topping Socialite Alice Topping by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...
Archival Pigment, Color
Polo Gear Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo Gear A group of polo players with their equipment, Argentina, December 1990. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed...
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
Alice Topping Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Topping Socialite Alice Topping by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959. 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
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
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
John Rawlings Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
John Rawlings 1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 – 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Phot...
Archival Pigment, Color
Porto Ercole Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole The waterfront at Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1967. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Porto Ercole Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Kloster Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Klosters Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Li...
Archival Pigment, Color
Dolores Guinness Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Guinness Dolores Guinness catches the sun’s last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia, 1965. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...
Archival Pigment
Positano Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
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. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed i...
Archival Pigment, Color
Alpine Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alpine Skiing Skiers waiting for the cable car at Verbier in Switzerland, 1964 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in...
Archival Pigment, Color
Winter Suntans Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winter Suntans .Young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad. 1961 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 20...
Archival Pigment, Color
David Bailey Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
David Bailey September 1968: English photographer David Bailey on the Italian island of Capri 16 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bettina Graziani Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bettina Graziani Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aar...
Archival Pigment, Color
Megachess Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Megachess A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993. 16 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Prin...
Archival Pigment, Color
Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports 1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. 16×20 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
Hotel Olden Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Olden People carry their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Tram Turntable Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tram Turntable A tram being manually rotated on a turntable in San Francisco, California, 1960 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim A...
Archival Pigment, Color
Belvedere Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Belvedere Pool The swimming pool at the Hotel Belvedere, Amalfi, Italy, August 1984. 16 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...
Archival Pigment, Color
Cannes Watersports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 16×20 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...
Archival Pigment, Color
Portofino Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast, 1985. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Olivier Coquelin Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Olivier Coquelin Olivier Coquelin and Lahaina Kameha in Haiti, February 1981. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...
Archival Pigment, Color
Palace Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palace Hotel The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, 1961. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints onl...
Archival Pigment, Color
Porto Ercole Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole Boating in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1969. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150...
Archival Pigment, Color
Outdoor Dining Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Outdoor Dining Diners at an outdoor restaurant, San Diego, California, October 1956 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bahamanian Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bahamanian Hotel A hotel on the coast at Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Plantation Cocoyer Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Plantation Cocoyer People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
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 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aar...
Archival Pigment, Color
Camelback Inn Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Camelback Inn A view of the Camelback Inn, Scottsdale Arizona, April 1967 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2...
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 Sl...
Archival Pigment, Color
Britt Ekland Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Britt Ekland 1969, Swedish actress Britt Ekland in Porto Ercole, Italy. 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2...
Archival Pigment, Color
George Hamilton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
George Hamilton American actor George Hamilton holidays in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1977. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Archival Pigment, Color
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. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Verbier Skiers Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Skiers Fashionable Skiers at Verbier, 1964. 16×16 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prin...
Archival Pigment, Color
Carlton Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carlton Hotel The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France, 1963. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited t...
Archival Pigment, Color
Mazatlan Seaside Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mazatlan Seaside Holidaymakers at a seaside pool at Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...
Archival Pigment, Color
Social Call Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Social Call Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed i...
Archival Pigment, Color
Hotel Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Pool Guests by the pool at the Gavina Hotel, Spain, 1970. 20 × 16 inches - 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 An outdoor bar at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, March 1969 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Marietine Birnie Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marietine Birnie Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Archival Pigment, Color
Henley Regatta Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Henley Regatta The Henley Regatta at Henley-on-Thames on the River Thames, circa 1955. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...
Archival Pigment, Color
Garden Party Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Garden Party 1970: An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. 16×16 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Skating Waiter Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skating Waiter A skating cocktail waiter at the Palace Hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sl...
Archival Pigment, Color
Sundowners Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sundowners Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Snorkelling Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snorkelling Holiday A snorkelling holiday in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean, circa 1975 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
Archival Pigment, Color
Caribbean Patio Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Caribbean Patio A woman relaxing on a patio, Caribbean, March 1973. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
Porto Ercole Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole A jetty juts out from a rocky shoreline in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment, Color
Montesquiou-Fezensac Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Montesquiou-Fezensac 1957, The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac in the drawing room of her chateau, Neuilly 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Phot...
Archival Pigment, Color
Portofino Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino, circa 1955. 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...
Archival Pigment, Color
Positano Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958 16 × 16 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Montecatini Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Montecatini Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
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Nassau Sailing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nassau Sailing A flotilla of yachts, at Nassau in the Bahamas, March 1971. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Monte Carlo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monte Carlo Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Lim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Playboy Party Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Playboy Party Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner, December 1961 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Lim...
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Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taormina The coastal town of Taormina in Sicily, Italy, March 1963. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Lim...
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.
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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.