Pool By El Venerol Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 24" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Princess Pia Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Poolside Service Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The club building was designed by American architect Eldredge Snyder unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper siz...
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Palm Beach Society Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Society 1968 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Palm Beach socialite Jim Kimberly (far left) and friends around his white sports car on the shores of Lak...
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Moutain Buffet Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Monte Mano Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Pantz Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pantz Pool 1985 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz’ Marbella home, Septem...
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$3,600
Party At The Playboy Mansion Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Party At The Playboy Mansion 1961 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playb...
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On The Slopes In Stowe Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Palm Springs Rodeo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Katharine Hepburn Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Donald Leas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature number and inked on the fro...
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Poolside Fashions Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Porto Ercole Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole 1973 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel i...
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Princess Ruspoli Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 24" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Chateau St. Jean Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front c...
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My Toy Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type printed 2023 20 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front certi...
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Neldas Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 24" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Early Riders Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons unframed c type print printed 2023 16 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature...
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Dining at Wilmot’s Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dining at Wilmot’s 1968 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Accordion music accompanies a meal by the pool at the home of Molly Wilmot in Palm Beach, Florida, April ...
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Don Giovanni Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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All Mine Ladies Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Original Artwork: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons unframed c type print printed 2023 16×16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embosse...
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Skiing Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 24" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Spear Fishing In San Diego Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type printed 2023 20 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front certi...
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Mara Lane At The Sands Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type printed 2023 20 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature number and inked on the front certi...
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Sunbathing In Antibes Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front c...
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Private Island, Philippines Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Peace And Plenty Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Summer In Monaco Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature number and inked on the fr...
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Tania Mallet Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film ‘Goldfinger’ unframed c type numbered in ink on the front Limited to 150 prints only – regardles...
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Verbier View Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film ‘Goldfinger’ unframed c type printed 2023 numbered in ink on the front Limited to 150 prints onl...
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Swimmer And Sunbather Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 × 16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the f...
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Swimming In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Saint-Tropez Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Swimming In Spain Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Swimming In Spain 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Swimming and snorkelling in the bay at the Hostal De La Gavina, in S’agaro, Costa Brava, Spain, July 1970 ...
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State Line Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regard...
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Sunbathing In Barbados Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Swimming Pool On The Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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$3,000
Boats At Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boats At Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc 1969 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Motorboats moored off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, 1969 unfra...
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Bikini Society Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 × 16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the f...
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Lunch Al Fresco Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Look No Shoes Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 × 16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the f...
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Lee Crawford In Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Corfu Picnic Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Drinks At Gstaad Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Il Pellicano Tennis Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 24" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Italian Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 × 16 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the f...
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Ski Fashion At Sugarbush Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ski Fashion At Sugarbush 1960 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition American socialite and fashion writer Nan Kempner (1930 – 2005) at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resor...
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Sailing In Anguilla Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing In Anguilla 1992 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West Ind...
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Poolside Fashions Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Pool Bound Guests Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Relaxing in Lech Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
C Print
Saint Tropez Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint Tropez 1971 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Two young women, one wearing a kaftan, stepping onto a yacht on the waterfront at Saint-Tropez, France, August ...
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Swimming In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Swimming In The Bahamas 1959 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Brightly coloured swimmers in a pool in Nassau on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas, 1959...
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Sunbathing In Barbados Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 20 x 24" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
C Print
Villa Olivella Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 16×20 inches - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the fro...
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Tullio Abbate Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
unframed c type print printed 2023 24 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind embossed Slim Aarons signature numbered in ink on the front ...
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Backstage At La Scala 1948 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) silver gelatin print paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm unframed printed later edition size 150 only certificate of authenticity supplied numbered...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking unframed archival pigment print printed 2024 20 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper siz...
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Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking unframed c type print printed 2024 20 x 20" - paper size Limited to 150 prints only – regardless of paper size blind em...
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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.