Princess Ruspoli
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Princess Ruspoli
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Leisure in Antibes
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Fan Mail
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Sirio Maccioni at Le Cirque, New York
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Barbara Hutton, Venice
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Charles (Lucky) Luciano, Sicily, Italy
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The Good Life
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Sea Drive
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Scone Madam?
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Comte d'Arcangues
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My Toy
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Rothschild Home
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Von Furstenbergs
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The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, New York
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Mara Lane At The Sands
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Gloria Swanson awaiting the results of the Academy Award, New York
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'Shaken Not Stirred' 1968
By Peter Ruck
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Beauty And The Beast
By Slim Aarons
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Le Comte de Paris with his wife the Comtesse, the Manoir du Coeur Volant, 1956
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Park Avenue Party, New York
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'Shaken Not Stirred' 1968
By Peter Ruck
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'Shaken Not Stirred' 1968
By Peter Ruck
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'. (Photo by Peter Ruck/BIPs/Getty Images Archive) Beautiful archival pigment baryta print made utilising
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'Skiing In Vail' *newly added* SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
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Cabot Family
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Transport Buffs
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Brigitte Bardot, 1967 - Brigitte Bardot Black and White Portrait Photograph
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Carl Sandburg, Chicago Historical Society Museum
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Cheetah Who Shops - Bond Street Shopping Black and White Photograph
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Dining Out - New York Dinner Portrait Couple Dining Black and White Photograph
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Louis Armstrong on Stage - Louis Armstrong Trumpet Player Concert Photograph
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Commissionaire's Dog - London Luxury Hotel Dachshund Silver Gelatin Print
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Star Trio - Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe Portrait
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Cary Grant in the Rain, 1957 - Cary Grant Portrait Black and White Photograph
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Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn Monroe Portrait Photograph Black and White
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Guggenheim Museum - American Architecture Museum Black and White Photograph
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Give Me Five, 1963 - Muhammed Ali Portrait Silver Gelatin Print Photograph
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Martin & Sinatra, 1961 - Portrait of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra
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Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones - 20th Century Monochrome Photographic Print
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Suspension Wires - Architectural Photograph Black and White Silver Gelatin
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Italian Party - Italian Family Portrait Black and White Photograph
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Brigitte Bardot, Piggy Back, 1966 - French Film Actress Photograph Print
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Eiffel Tower Leg - Parisian Architecture Black and White Photograph
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Thames Divers - London Embankment River Thames Photography 1930s London
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Spectre HQ - James Bond Thunderball Hollywood Movie Film Ken Adam Set Design
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Shaken not Stirred, 1968 - 007 James Bond Roger Moore Portrait Tuxedo Martini
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Happy Marilyn, 1956 - Marilyn Monroe Portrait Silver Gelatin Print Photograph
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Kubrick On Set, 1963 - Stanley Kubrick Clockwork Orange Director Photograph
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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.
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