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Portofino Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Portofino Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

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...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Montesquiou-Fezensac Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Montesquiou-Fezensac Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

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...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

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...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Garden Party 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Garden Party 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Garden Party 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Garden Party, 1970 An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. 16 x 16” / 41 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Underwater Drink 1972 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Underwater Drink 1972 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Underwater Drink 1972 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. 16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Verbier View 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Verbier View 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Verbier View 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Verbier View Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964. 20x20” / 51 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Scone Madam 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Scone Madam 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Scone Madam 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Scone Madam, 1960 Afternoon tea round the pool on a cool day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills. 16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped...

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1960s 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 on the island of Capri. 16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...

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1980s 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. 16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamp...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Yachting Trip 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Yachting Trip 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Yachting Trip 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Yachting Trip Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967. 20x30” / 51 x 76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Co...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Klosters 1963 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Klosters 1963 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Klosters 1963 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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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

Paraglider 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Paraglider 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Paraglider 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paraglider Preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco a young blonde woman holds on firmly to her parachute harness. 1968 12x16” / 30 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Verbier Skiers 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Verbier Skiers 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Verbier Skiers 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Verbier Skiers Fashionable Skiers at Verbier, 1964. 16 x 16” / 41 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Chalet Costi 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Chalet Costi 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Chalet Costi 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Leonard Dalsemer 1974 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Leonard Dalsemer 1974 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Leonard Dalsemer 1974 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Leonard Dalsemer Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 20x30” / 51 x 76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Verbier Vacation 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Verbier Vacation 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Verbier Vacation 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Verbier Vacation Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964. 20x20” / 51 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Cortina dAmpezzo 1962 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Cortina dAmpezzo 1962 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Cortina dAmpezzo 1962 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Cortina dAmpezzo Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Hotel Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Hotel Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Hotel Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Hotel Excelsior The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Carlton Hotel 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Carlton Hotel 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Carlton Hotel 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Carlton Hotel The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Having A Topping Time Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Having A Topping Time Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Having A Topping Time Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Having A Topping Time Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

John Rawlings 1950 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
John Rawlings 1950 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

John Rawlings 1950 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

John Rawlings 1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 – 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Katharine Hepburn 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Katharine Hepburn 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Katharine Hepburn 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Katharine Hepburn 1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm ...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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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. 12x16” / 30 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...

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1980s 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, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain. 20x30” / 51 x 76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Penthouse Pool 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Penthouse Pool 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

Penthouse Pool 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Penthouse Pool Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. 12 x 12” / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aar...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue

Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...

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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Black and White

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

Portofino Harbour Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Portofino Harbour Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Portofino Harbour Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Portofino Harbour The harbour in the Ligurian town of Portofino, August 1977. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Tiziana Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Tiziana Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Tiziana Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Tiziana A topless Tiziana Audino enjoys a shower at the Hotel San Pietro in Positano, 1984. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...

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1980s Modern Color Photography

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Yachting Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Yachting Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Yachting Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Yachting Holiday A small flotilla of pleasure crafts moored in the sea off Italy, August 1980. 24 x 20" - 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, Color

Westin Excelsior Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
Westin Excelsior Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

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. 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...

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1950s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Alice In Acapulco
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Alice In Acapulco

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Alice In Acapulco

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Hotel Krone Lech
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Hotel Krone Lech

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960 Paper size 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Hotel Krone Lech
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Hotel Krone Lech

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960 Paper size 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Andros Island
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Andros Island

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Andros Island

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Andros Island Friends prepare for a day snorkelling by Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cortina d'Ampezzo
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cortina d'Ampezzo

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cortina d'Ampezzo

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Snowboarding in Cortina d’Ampezzo, March 1988 Print measuring 20 x 30 inches / 50 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limit...

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1980s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Rome Restaurant
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Rome Restaurant

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Rome Restaurant

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Paper size 20 x 16 inches / 51 x 41 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Han...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Deauville Casino
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Deauville Casino

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Deauville Casino

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Deauville Casino An exclusive gambling table at the casino in Deauville, France, 1970. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Bahamas Speed Week
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Bahamas Speed Week

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Bahamas Speed Week

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Bahamas Speed Week The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau, 1963. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Nicely Coiffed
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print  - Nicely Coiffed

Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Nicely Coiffed

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Nicely Coiffed A poodle enters a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France, 1970. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...

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1970s 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.