Slim Aarons 'Yachting in Newport'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC Arts, in collaboration with Getty Images, presents Slim Aarons' extensive archive.
1950s Modern Color Photography
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Yachting in Newport'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC Arts, in collaboration with Getty Images, presents Slim Aarons' extensive archive.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Harvey Firestone, Jr.'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC Arts, in collaboration with Getty Images, presents Slim Aarons' extensive archive.
Silver Gelatin
Skiers at Verbier (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
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Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' Midcentury Modern Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Archival Pigment
$3,378
'Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Limited Edi...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC Arts, in collaboration with Getty Images, presents Slim Aarons' extensive archive.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Sundowners, Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20t...
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Slim Aarons 'Harriet De Rosiere At Mougins' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20t...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Darryl Zanuck In Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20t...
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Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Cannes Cannes Girls' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20t...
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Slim Aarons 'Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20t...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Guests at the entrance to the Carlton' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20t...
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Slim Aarons 'Savioli Spiaggia Hotel' Unframed Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Limited edition estate stamped print 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm paper size Unframed (framing options available - please enquire)...
Archival Pigment
$2,500
'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Limited Edi...
Color
'Dining at Wilmot's' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 ...
Color
'Las Brisas Hotel' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 ...
Color
$2,500
'Pool On Amalfi Coast' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) C Print Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped Paper Size 24x20 inches /...
Color
'Peace And Plenty' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 ...
Color
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC Arts, in collaboration with Getty Images, presents Slim Aarons' extensive archive.
Lambda
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs, Kaufmann House'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC Arts, in collaboration with Getty Images, presents Slim Aarons' extensive archive.
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC Arts, in collaboration with Getty Images, presents Slim Aarons' extensive archive.
Lambda
Peek-A-Boo Beatles (1965) - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Peek-A-Boo Beatles (1937) - Silver Gelatin Print (Photo by R. McPhedran/Express/Getty Images) 14th June 1965: The British rock group The Beatles stand in a window at Twickenham Fil...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Archival Pigment
Cadini di Misurina, Dolomite Alps, Italy, Europa
Located in London, GB
Cadini di Misurina, Dolomite Alps, Italy, Europa By Achim Thomae C print Oversize 20 x 30" inches / 50 x 76 cm Unframed Framing & Different Sizes Available - Please Ask. By Ach...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons The Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive) A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlto...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Archival Pigment
Country Road And Cypresses Grove, Tuscany, Italy
Located in London, GB
By Marco Bottigelli via Getty Images Archive London England Born Varese and grew up through studies of IT and technology, I went into photography as a natural consequence of anoth...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Style 'Saks Fashion Show'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC is proud to represent Aarons' vast collection of negatives and transparencies, which span six decades of a lifestyle many dream of but few experience. Held at the Getty Images H...
Silver Gelatin
Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Lambda
1960s Ocelot Animal Print Leather Bow Embellished Brown Black Genuine Fur Hat
Located in Munich, DE
Approximate Size: S Hight of Crown: 14 cm – 5.5“ Inner Circumference: circa 55 cm – 21.7“ Reference Photo: Elizabeth Taylor, 28 June 1963. By SSPL/Getty Images
Slim Aarons, Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Lambda
Slim Aarons Style 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
IFAC is proud to represent Aarons' vast collection of negatives and transparencies, which span six decades of a lifestyle many dream of but few experience. Held at the Getty Images H...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Catch Up by the Pool, Kaufmann Desert House
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Relaxing at Lake Tahoe'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (Mid-Century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood' (Mid-Century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Royal Knitting, Seminole Club, Palm Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive t...
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Slim Aarons 'Holiday In Boston'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
C Print
Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
Lambda
Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
Lambda
Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
Lambda
Rhode Island Surfer, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
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'Lech Ice Bar' Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Spanning six decades of a lifestyle many dream of but few experience. Held at the Getty Images Hulton Archive, expert darkroom work on the originals allows us to print his images up ...
C Print
Cocteau Collector, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
Lambda
Cocteau Collector, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
Lambda
Cocteau Collector, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
Lambda
Cocteau Collector, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Holiday In Boston'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Spanning six decades of a lifestyle many dream of but few experience. Held at the Getty Images Hulton Archive, expert darkroom work on the originals allow his images to print up to t...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Portofino Villa'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Lambda
Acapulco Villa (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Holiday In Boston'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
C Print
Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
All photographs are printed and authorized by Getty Images Gallery, London. Expert darkroom work on the original negatives allow us to print his images up to the largest photographic...
Lambda
'Lech Ice Bar' Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Spanning six decades of a lifestyle many dream of but few experience. Held at the Getty Images Hulton Archive, expert darkroom work on the originals allows us to print his images up ...
C Print
Slim Aarons Palm Beach Society (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Get...
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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.
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The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later.
Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide.
What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?
Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.
Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.
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