Cortina D’Ampezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina D’Ampezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962 60 x 60" inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size ...
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Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A fashion show at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1961 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
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Cecily Godfrey 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Her husband Gerald is Vice-President of the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
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Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The rear and headlights at nighttime give the appearance of lights on a giant Christmas tree, circa 1953 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
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Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper s...
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Civilised Snooze 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Civilised Snooze 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Photographer Slim Aarons slouches in a chair with the Acropolis and its surroundings as a backdrop 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm p...
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Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Conca dei Marini 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A quiet bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Sta...
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Cotton Bay 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cotton Bay 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Campbells’ pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate S...
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Cavallo 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cavallo 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers’ yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estat...
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Cortina d’Ampezzo 1988 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina d’Ampezzo 1988 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Snowboarding in Cortina d’Ampezzo, March 1988 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
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Chantilly Racecourse 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Chantilly Racecourse 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Chantilly Racecourse in France, 1956. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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Connelly And Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Connelly And Guest 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American socialite Cee Zee Guest (1920 – 2003, left) with Joanne Connelly in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. 20 x 20" inches /...
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Catherine Wilke 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island o...
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Cortina d’Ampezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina d’Ampezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A chairlift up the mountain in Cortina d’Ampezzo, February 1962 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Celebrity Cruise 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Celebrity Cruise 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped British comedian Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) holidays with Princess Margaret (1930 – 2002, right) on the Aga Khan’s yacht on the C...
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Colourful Crew 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colourful Crew 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamp...
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Christmas Swim 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Two children play in the background. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 print...
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Hotel Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
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Squaw Valley Snow 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Snow covers the deserted cafe in Squaw Valley, California, January 1961. 16 x 12" inches / 41 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...
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Mara Lane At The Sands 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped [PHOTO NEEDS CHANGING]
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 19...
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Donald Leas 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Donald Leas 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. 30 x 30" inches / 76...
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Abaco Islander 1986 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, founding Hope Town. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim A...
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Oberon’s Lunch 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Wonderful Time 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless ...
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Katharine Hepburn 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Katharine Hepburn 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica...
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Skiers At Verbier 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers At Verbier 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Co...
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Paraglider 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paraglider 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco a young blonde woman holds on firmly to her parachute harness. 1968 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76...
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Eton Vs Harrow 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eton Vs Harrow 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A view of spectators on the pitch at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London,...
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Dolores Guinness 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Guinness 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Dolores Guinness catches the sun’s last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
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Two-Tone Dress 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Two-Tone Dress 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman posing in a formal garden wearing a long, sleeveless, two-tone dress with a decorative bow at the waist, San Diego, Californ...
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French Polo Crowd 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French Polo Crowd 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950. 50 x 50" inches / 127 x 127 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection...
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Cortina D’Ampezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regard...
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Island Paradise 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Island Paradise 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Topless swimmers on a rocky promontory of the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size ...
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Lady Hamilton 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lady Hamilton 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lady Hamilton rests in the shade of a tree, in the company of a Kenyan tribe. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Sta...
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Early Riders 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Early Riders 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former mayor Frank Bogert leads an early-morning ride through Andreas Canyon in Palm Springs, southern California, January 1970. 30 x...
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Carriage Awaits 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carriage Awaits 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Kenneth Appleton Ives with a horse and carriage outside her house in Bermuda, 1977. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size ...
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CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-fron...
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Hotel Olden 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Olden 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped People carry their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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Bahamanian Hotel 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bahamanian Hotel 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A hotel on the coast at Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A view from a hillside in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France, looking toward Monaco, August 1970. 24 x 20" inches / ...
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New England Skiing Starters 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing Starters 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A young skier prefers to carry his skis down the slope in New Hampshire, 1955 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size ...
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Spot The Ball 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The club was so named because of the near-sightedness of its original members 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...
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Mazatlan Mansion 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mazatlan Mansion 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Eldorado, the Redo family villa in Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
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Swimming In Bermuda 1977- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Swimming In Bermuda 1977- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests on Sidney Gould’s ‘Sea Quest’ boat take a dip in the ocean, Bermuda, September 1977 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper s...
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Backstage At La Scala 1948 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Backstage At La Scala 1948 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, November 1948 20 x 20" inches / 51 x...
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My Toy 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
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Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, ...
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Pool In Palm Beach 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Murray Goodman’s house in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1985 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
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New England Skiing Essentials 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing Essentials 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A couple prepare for a day’s skiing in New Hampshire, 1955. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped...
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Beach Hut In Antibes 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach Hut In Antibes 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at a beach hut at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 ...
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Laguna Beach 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A beachside garden in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
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Bahamas Speed Week 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bahamas Speed Week 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau, 1963. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vill...
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Decking By The Sea 1988 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Decking By The Sea 1988 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped People sunbathing on a deck overlooking the sea at Angra dos Reis, Brazil, January 1988 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size...
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Daniel Gainey 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Daniel Gainey 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm pa...
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Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of the yacht ‘Traveler II’, off the coast of Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1967. 2...
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Cap Juluca Hotel 1992 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cap Juluca Hotel 1992 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Patricia and Margaret O’Neil at the Cap Juluca Hotel in Cap Juluca, Anguilla, 1992 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Es...
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Curacao Children 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curacao Children 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Three local children sitting on a low wall, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, January 1979 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size ...
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Culinary Heights 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Culinary Heights 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of ‘Le Bateau Ivre’, Michel Rochedy (centre) of ‘Le Chabichou’, and Albert Parveaux ...
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Crespi And Mastroianni 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Crespi And Mastroianni 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Italian countess Consuelo Crespi (left, 1928-2010) and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (right, 19241996) in conversation...
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Cushing Home 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cushing Home 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Members of the Cushing family outside their home, ‘The Ledges’ in Newport, June 1966. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estat...
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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.