$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
$3,900
Slim Aarons Consuelo Crespi 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
Slim Aarons Il San Pietro Di Positano, Italy 1984 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
Valentino FW 2006 Embellished Dress
By Valentino
Located in Mentone, CA
The dress was seen on Kerry Washington during the 2006 National Dream Dinner Gala! Photos from Getty Images Size XS-S Mannequin is a size S with 32" bust and 25" waist and fits lik...
Tennis Guests later Jackie Kennedy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London) Produced from the original negative Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped and numbered in ink on th...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Tennis Guests later Jackie Kennedy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London) Produced from the original negative Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped and numbered in ink on th...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Fullers' Mid-century Modern Photography : Architecture
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Horst, Helmut Newton, and Bert Stern, has been exhibited at esteemed institutions including the Getty Images Gallery, IFAC Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Lambda
'Social Call' Slim Arons ESTATE EDITION
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.
Aluminum
'George And Elton' 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
'The Clash In New York' 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
'Amy Winehouse' 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
Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Venice Vacation Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer,...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Venice Vacation Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer,...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons Venice Vacation Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer,...
Lambda
Tania Mallet in the Bahamas, Iconic 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...
Lambda
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Skiers In St. Moritz' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Annette Glatzel' 1978 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Social Call' 1972 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
Color
Slim Aarons Style 'New York Debutante'
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 'Jean Patchett For Saks Fifth Avenue'
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
$2,415
Black White And Gray - signed limited edition - fine art abstract landscape
By Tim Graham
Located in London, GB
Getty Images acquired ownership of his Royal Archive in 2008.
Archival Pigment
Ice World - signed limited edition - fine art abstract landscape
By Tim Graham
Located in London, GB
Getty Images acquired ownership of his Royal Archive in 2008.
Archival Pigment
'Desert House Party' Palm Springs (Slim Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
GALERIE PRINTS works in close partnership with the prestigious Getty Images Archive and Slim Aarons Estate, London England - to bring you officially certified prints from this beauti...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Madame Jean Serpieri' (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...
Lambda
Minnie Cushing Surfing, 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...
Lambda
Minnie Cushing Surfing, 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...
Lambda
Minnie Cushing Surfing, 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...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
His intimate portrayals of the elite and the jet set brim with the wit and charisma that granted Aarons unparalleled access to high society IFAC Arts, in collaboration with the Gett...
C Print
$805
'Patsy Punk' 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
Slim Aarons 'Choosing A Top' 1977 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Pellicano Beach' 1969 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Tuscan Holiday' 1969 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Lunch At Merle's' 1966 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Acapulco Villa' 1968 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
From 'A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons' (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certifi...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'The High Life' 1977 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Water Babe' 1989 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Welles In Biarritz' 1960 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'The Ali Children' 1980 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Swimming Pool On The Beach' 1981 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Taormina Pool' 1975 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' 1962 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch' 1978 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Arriving In Style' 1960 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
From 'A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons' (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certific...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Moutain Buffet' 1987 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'North Conway Sleigh' 1955 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Yacht Holiday' 1967 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Curling At St. Moritz' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
Color
Slim Aarons 'Coming Ashore' 1973 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
Color
Slim Aarons 'Nirvana Quartet' 1986 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez' 1970 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
Color
Slim Aarons 'Castel Bonifacio' 1984 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive ...
Color
Slim Aarons 'Abaco Holiday' 1986 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
Color
Slim Aarons 'Belvedere Pool' 1984 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
Color
Slim Aarons 'Las Brisas Hotel' 1968 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity sup...
Color
Christmas Swim Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
His intimate portrayals of the elite and the jet set brim with the wit and charisma that granted Aarons unparalleled access to high society IFAC Arts, in collaboration with the Gett...
C Print
Crepes in Cortina d'Ampezzo
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
His intimate portrayals of the elite and the jet set brim with the wit and charisma that granted Aarons unparalleled access to high society IFAC Arts, in collaboration with the Gett...
C Print
Christmas Swim, Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
His intimate portrayals of the elite and the jet set brim with the wit and charisma that granted Aarons unparalleled access to high society IFAC Arts, in collaboration with the Gett...
C Print
Christmas Swim, Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
His intimate portrayals of the elite and the jet set brim with the wit and charisma that granted Aarons unparalleled access to high society IFAC Arts, in collaboration with the Gett...
C Print
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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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.
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