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...
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Slim Aarons Style 'Florence Pritchett Smith'
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
$2,500
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
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 'Poolside Friendship'
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...
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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 'Curling at St. Moritz' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Slim Aarons 'Motorboats in Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) The most famous of Carlo Riva’s designs, the Aquarama has become over the decades a nautical legend.
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Slim Aarons 'The King of Jazz'
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 'Motorboats in Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) The most famous of Carlo Riva’s designs, the Aquarama has become over the decades a nautical legend.
C Print
$1,690
'Prince' Dave Hogan Signed Limited Edition Sliver Gelatin Print
By dave hogan
Located in London, GB
Based in London, his work with Getty Images and Hogan Media covers major events like Live Aid and the BRIT.
Silver Gelatin
Colorful Crew, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Slim Aarons 'The King of Jazz'
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 'Poolside Friendship'
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
Chanel By Karl Lagerfeld Runway Padded Quilted Cotton Tank Top, SS2000
By Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel
Located in Geneva, CH
Credits : Video -> Devon Aoki walking the SS2000 Chanel runway show via YouTube - Fashion Channel Picture n° 4 -> Devon Aoki by Penske Media in the Chanel SS2000 runway show via Get...
$5,400
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Royal Winner, HM Queen Elizabeth II
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."
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Slim Aarons 'King of Jazz'
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 'Nice Pool'
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, Cigar Baron
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 'Pool on the Amalfi Coast' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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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
Capote's House, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Capote's House, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Capote's House, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Capote's House, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Slim Aarons 'Bohemia's Barracks at the Chelsea Hotel'
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.
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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 Style 'Florence Pritchett Smith'
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 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
$1,850
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
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 'Nice Pool'
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
Iconic Slim Aarons Estate photograph: 'Curling at St. Moritz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition 'Tania Mallet in the Bahamas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition 'Tania Mallet in the Bahamas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Iconic Slim Aarons Estate photograph: 'Curling at St. Moritz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Iconic Slim Aarons Estate photograph: 'Curling at St. Moritz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Iconic Slim Aarons Estate photograph: 'Curling at St. Moritz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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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, Skiing Waiters (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Held at the Getty Images Hulton Archive, expert darkroom work on the originals allows us to print his images up to the largest photographic sizes, inviting us to step into these dazz...
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Slim Aarons, Nice Pool (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...
Archival Pigment
Bohemia's Barracks (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Held at the Getty Images Hulton Archive, expert darkroom work on the originals allows us to print his images up to the largest photographic sizes, inviting us to step into these dazz...
Lambda
Nice Pool (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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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$4,200
Slim Aarons 'George Hamilton with Horse on Capri' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition 'Tania Mallet in the Bahamas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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$5,400
Slim Aarons 'Sunbather on Rock, Costa Smeralda Sardinia, Italy' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Ge...
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'Gioacchino And Gian Nicola Fiilippi' 1982 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...
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'Palm Peach Pagoda' 1985 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
'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons ESTATE ptrint
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
EDGE PRINTS works in close partnership with the Getty Images Archive & Slim Aarons Estate and Collection, in London England.
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Four Kings Of Hollywood (1957) -Silver Gelatin Fibre Print -Estate Stamped Issue
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Four Kings Of Hollywood (1957) -Silver Gelatin Fibre Print -Estate Stamped Issue (Digital composite of photos by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) A series of four shots of ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$775
Churchill in Richmond Park (1963) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Terry Fincher
Located in London, GB
Churchill in Richmond Park (1963) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Terry Fincher/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive) British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$1,617
James Dean And Ursula Andress (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Michael Ochs
Located in London, GB
James Dean And Ursula Andress (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Image Archive) LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 29: Movie star James Dean and Swiss-bor...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
World Cup Victory (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
World Cup Victory (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images Archive) England captain Bobby Moore (1941 - 1993) holds up the Jules Rimet trophy as he ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$3,000
Slim Aarons Cat-Shaped Pool 1955 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 16x20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Hotel De La Poste, Cortina d'Ampezzo 1976 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 30x20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Archival Pigment
$3,900
Slim Aarons Swimming Pool 1954 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 30x20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Archival Pigment
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.
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