Hotel Excelsior Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior 1957 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957.
Archival Pigment
Westin Excelsior Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Westin Excelsior The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
Archival Pigment, Color
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 ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons, Excelsior Gala
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in ...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20th century.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1957 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1957 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1955 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1955 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
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Slim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
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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...
Archival Pigment
Westin Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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Westin Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 48x48" / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
Hotel Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Hotel Excelsior, Venice 1957 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: The ...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Hotel Excelsior, Venice 1957 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: The ...
Silver Gelatin
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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Dining At The Excelsior' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Dining At The Excelsior 1957 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
'Hotel Excelsior' 1957 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Excelsior' The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Boats Before The Excelsior - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
$3,600
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Excelsior' The beachfront of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in ...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20th century.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Edition- Boats Before The Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boats Before The Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Edition Boats moored before the Excelsior Hotel on The Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957.
C Print
Westin Excelsior, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector wi...
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Hotel Excelsior, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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Hotel Excelsior, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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Westin Excelsior, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collector wi...
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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 ...
Archival Pigment
Hotel Excelsior (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) The beach in front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido. 1957.
Color, Archival Pigment
Westin Excelsior (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Westin Excelsior (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957.
Color, Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Excelsior Hotel Gala, Venice, 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate Embossed
Photographic Paper
$2,400
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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$3,000
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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$3,600
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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$3,900
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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$1,800
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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$4,200
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire. This is an estate stamped and han...
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Westin Excelsior, Lido in Venice, 1957 - Venetian Gondolas in Canals in Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Westin Excelsior, Lido in Venice, 1957 - Venetian Gondolas in Canals in Italy by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice, Estate Edition, Gondolas on the Canal at Westin
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
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Slim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
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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.
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.