Slim Aarons By the Pool in Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The entire Slim Aarons Collection is available at IFAC Arts in collaboration with the Slim Aarons Estate and Getty Images Gallery London.
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Slim Aarons Sunbathing In Barbados
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The entire Slim Aarons Collection is available at IFAC Arts in collaboration with the Slim Aarons Estate and Getty Images Gallery London.
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'Sunbathing On Capri' Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
EDGE PRINTS offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images G...
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Churchill In Richmond Park by Terry Fincher
By Terry Fincher
Located in London, GB
Unframed Paper Size: 20" x 24'' inches / 51 x 61 cm Printed 2024 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print Limited to 300 only regardless of paper size Issued by The Getty Images Archive London E...
Black and White
New Year's Kiss
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Dunsmore/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London) Paper size 20x16" inches / 51 x 41 cm Limited to 300 numbered and stamped by the Getty Archive London ...
Silver Gelatin
Poolside Party - Limited Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seller offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Galler...
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'Rainy Embankment' London (Limited Edition) Oversize
Located in London, GB
(Photo By Fox Photos/ The Getty Images Photographic Archives London, England) A beautiful LARGE silver gelatin fibre print – Measuring 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm's Galerie...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Stockings (1946) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Stockings (1946) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images) 1946: Three pairs of stockinged legs.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Brigitte Bardot - Oversize Print
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via the Getty Images Archive London England.) Oversize 30x30 inches C type print Archive stamped Gallery stamped certification provided ...
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$4,900
Speedboat Landing - Slim Aarons - Giant size - 20th century colour photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Galerie Prints offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Image...
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Slim Aarons 'Colorful Crew' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Photo credit Slim Aarons / Getty Images) Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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'Pool At Las Brisas' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seller offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Galler...
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'Pool At Las Brisas' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seller offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Galler...
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Desert Party - Slim Aarons - color photography 20th century
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seller offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Galler...
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Spectre HQ Bond Set limited edition silver gelatine print
By Larry Ellis
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Larry Ellis/Express/Getty Images Archive London England) Large oversize paper size 60x40" inches / 152 x 101 cm silver gelatine print unframed printed this year limited...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Flooded Mall London
Located in London, GB
(Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images Archive London England) Paper size large Oversize 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm silver gelatine print made utilising the original negative Li...
Silver Gelatin
Students of Harrow School (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Students of Harrow School (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) Students of Harrow School are returning to school after Christmas vacations, England, P...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Hyde Park (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Cafe De Flore (1948) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by John Downing/Getty Images) Horse riding on Rotten Row, in London's Hyde Park, circa 1965.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger 1969
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London) Large 20x16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Archival pigment print Archive Stamped Certificate of authentic...
Archival Pigment
Brigitte Bardot 1966 Giant Oversize Print by Jim Gray
By Jim Gray
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Jim Gray/Keystone Features/Getty Images Archive London) Unframed Paper Size: 40" x 40'' (inches) Printed 2025 Baryta Print Certificate of authenticity provided French fi...
Black and White
'Derby Spectator' Giant Oversize Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Printed later 2020 GALERIE PRINTS works directly with various Archives & Collections, including the beautiful Getty Images Archive & darkrooms and with photographers directly.
Silver Gelatin
'Derby Spectator' Giant Oversize Limited Edition Black and White Photography
Located in London, GB
Printed later 2020 GALERIE PRINTS works directly with various Archives & Collections, including the beautiful Getty Images Archive & darkrooms and with photographers directly.
Silver Gelatin
Sunny Day (1980) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Stockings (1946) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Moore/Evening Standard/Getty Images) 12th May 1980: Model Lynne reflected in corocraft sunglasses.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jumping A Hurdle (1886) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Muybridge/George Eastman Museum/Getty Images). Jumping a hurdle; saddle; bay horse, Daisy, between 1884 and 1887.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) American film star Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) outside her home at Englefield Green.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Young Competitors (1925) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Young Competitors (1925) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by MacGregor/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 11th August 1925 Three young competitors arriving at the courts for th...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
1st Class Travel (1934) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
1st Class Travel (1934) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) September 1934: Mrs C Wylds behind the wheel with her pet pig at Terling in Essex.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Derby Spectator (1923) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator (1923) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print Photo by (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Chorus Formation (1933) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Chorus Formation (1933) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images) 14th February 1933: The Albertina Rasch chorus girls who are appearing in 'Wild Violets'.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Thunderball (1965) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Thunderball (1965) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by MacGregor/Getty Images) A scene from the James Bond film 'Thunderball' with Sean Connery, Claudine Auger and Adolfo Celi.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Cheeky Briefs" by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: Picture Post - 7364 - A Place in the Sun for You - pub. 1954 Unframed Paper Size: 20 x 16'' (inches) Printed 2024 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print numbered limited e...
Black and White
$1,100
Muhammad Ali In London - Oversize Pigment Fine Art Baryta Print
By Len Trievnor
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Len Trievnor /Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London England) Paper size 20x24" inches / 51 x 61 cm Archive stamped Printed 2021 Limited to 300 only Min...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Cheeky Briefs by Kurt Hutton
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: Picture Post - 7364 - A Place in the Sun for You - pub. 1954 Unframed Paper Size: 20 x 24'' (inches) / 51 x 61 cm Printed 2024 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print numb...
Black and White
Juan Manuel Fangio (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Juan Manuel Fangio (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images) Argentinian racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio in a Ferrari at Silverstone racetrack.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$495
Big Ben From The South Bank (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Big Ben From The South Bank (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Nat Norman/Frederic Lewis/Archive Photos/Getty Images) A woman looking across the Thames towards the Palac...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Hippiemobile (1968) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Brian Duffy
Located in London, GB
Throbbing Gristle In Culver City (1981) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Brian Duff/Daily Express/Express/Getty Images) circa 1968: Young men and women pose in and on a car...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Union Jack Trunks (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Michael Webb
Located in London, GB
Union Jack Trunks (1969) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Michael Webb/Getty Images) Two models in Union Jack swimwear posing in Trafalgar Square to promote tourism to Gibral...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Monroe In A Bikini (1951) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) posing on a rooftop circa 1951.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Flooded Road (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Flooded Road (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images Archive) A pedestrian attempts to leap across a flooded road near Hyde Park in London, ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Flooded Road (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Flooded Road (1939) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Alfred Hind Robinson/Getty Images Archive) A pedestrian attempts to leap across a flooded road near Hyde Park in London, ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Backstage Faithfull (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Backstage Faithfull (1974) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hoare/Express/Getty Images) 15th February 1974: English singer and actress Marianne Faithfull sitting in a dressi...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Pacific Diver (1950) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Pacific Diver (1950) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images) circa 1950: Swimmer diving into rough water lashing against rocky cliffs at Acapulco, t...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Naughty But Nice' Limited Edition Silver Gelatin print
By Christopher Simon Sykes
Located in London, GB
(photo C S Sykes / issued by the Hulton Getty Images Archive & Darkrooms)
Silver Gelatin
Hang Gliding
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 'Skiers at Verbier' (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Held at the Getty Images Hulton Archive, expert darkroom work on the originals allow his images to print up to the largest photographic sizes, inviting us to step into these dazzling...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiers At Gstaad' - 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...
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Line of moored tourist boats on lake Bled, Slovenia
Located in London, GB
By Marco Bottigelli via Getty Images Archive London England Born and based in Lombardy, Italy, Marco Bottigelli studied IT at Milan University.
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Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London) Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Throbbing Gristle In Culver City (1981) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Suzan Carson
Located in London, GB
Throbbing Gristle In Culver City (1981) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Suzan Carson/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Singer and bassist Genesis P-Orridge (Neil Megson) o...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In Seefeld' - 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...
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Slim Aarons 'Skiing In Seefeld' - 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...
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Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dangerous Perch (1940) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London) Evacuee Barrie Peacop enjoys an ice cream as he sits on a mine ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Kurt Hutton
Located in London, GB
New Look (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Getty Images) A model wearing a black cocktail dress and a black velvet wide-brimmed hat, designed by Ronald Pate...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Marilyn On The Roof (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Ed Feingersh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) leans over the balc...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Flooded Mall (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by H. F. Davis/Getty Images) A man crossing a stretch of floodwater with the help of two chairs after a storm caused floodi...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Rockefeller Center (1945) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Rockefeller Center (1945) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by George Enell/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) circa 1945: The Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Mauretania - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Mauretania - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) The Cunard superliner Mauretania being refitted in the dry dock at Southampton.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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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