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Elegant Daywear (1957) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Elegant Daywear (1957) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo By Popperfoto/Getty Images Archive) A young woman modelling an outfit consisting of a three-qu...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Parliament By Night (1973) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Parliament By Night (1973) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Peter King/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament by night, 31st ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Interviewing Grace (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Interviewing Grace (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Bob Harrow/Express/Getty Images) May 1956: American actress Grace Kelly (1929 - 1982) being interviewed by journali...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Swan In A Car (1936) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Swan In A Car (1936) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) 6th April 1936: A tame swan named Leila is given a lift in the back of a car.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Marilyn Monroe (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Marilyn Monroe (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) London, England, 1956, American actress Marilyn Monroe is pictured at a press reception at th...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sunbathing Skier (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing Skier (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Don/Three Lions/Getty Images) circa 1956: With the temperature at around 80?
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In To Catch A theift(1932) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Cary Grant And Grace Kelly In To Catch A thief (1932) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Paramount/Getty Images Archive London England). Cary Grant and Grace Kelly publicity por...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Rainy Embankment (1929) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Fair Fun (1938) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) August 1929: A man standing alone on a rain-drenched pavement on the River Thames Embankment, London...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dukeries District - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Dukeries District - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) A German Opel racer leaving Welbeck Abbey, the seat of the dukes of Portland in Nottingh...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Simca Aronde (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Thurston Hopkins
Located in London, GB
Simca Aronde (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Getty Images) 1st October 1956: Two models posing in a cutaway Simca Aronde at the Paris Mo...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Thames Divers (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Thames Divers (1934) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by H F Davis/Getty Images Archive) Two divers jumping off the Embankment into the River Thames in London, near Westminster...
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 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' - 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 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' 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...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice' 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 'Gucci Pooch in Venice' Mid-century 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 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice' 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 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury 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...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
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...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice'
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 'Lido Life, Venice'
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 'Gucci Pooch in Venice"
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 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury 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...
Silver Gelatin
Rat Packin' with a Bottle of Jack
By Earl Leaf
Located in Chicago, IL
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Each fine print is numbered and embossed with the official Frank Sinatra Archive stamp.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Skiers At Sugarbush' - 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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Slim Aarons 'Hang Gliding' - 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 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' - 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 '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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Slim Aarons 'Courchevel' - 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 'North Conway Sleigh' - 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 'Lounging In 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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Slim Aarons 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' - 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 'Skiers At Sugarbush' - 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 'Gasthof Post Pool' - 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 'Exotic Hair Care'
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 '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...
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'Skiers In St. Moritz' 1963 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 ...
C Print, Color
$2,500
'Henley Royal Regatta' 1955 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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'Bahamas Speed Week' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) C Print Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Archive stamped Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Li...
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Street Night (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Street Night (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) 29th September 1954: A bus and cars travelling down Shaftesbury Avenue, L...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$995
Marilyn In Grand Central Station (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Ed Feingersh
Located in London, GB
Marilyn In Grand Central Station (1955) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Ed Feingersh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) NEW YORK - MARCH 24: Actress Marilyn Monroe takes the ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Hal moray
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station,...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Monza Grand Prix (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Monza Grand Prix (1954) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by David Lees/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) British racing champion Stirling Moss at the Monza Grand Prix i...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Hal moray
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station,...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Hal moray
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station,...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Hal moray
Located in London, GB
Sun Beams Into Grand Central Station (1930) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Hal Morey/Getty Images) Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station,...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Steptoe And A Beatle (1964) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print- Paul McCartney
Located in London, GB
Steptoe And A Beatle (1964) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kaye/Express/Getty Images) 5th April 1964: Beatle Paul McCartney at Marylebone, London with Wilfrid Brambell (1...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Taylor And Poodle (1957) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Stanley Sherman
Located in London, GB
Taylor And Poodle (1957) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Stanley Sherman/Express/Getty Images) 23rd April 1957: American actress Elizabeth Taylor sips a drink and smokes a c...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Audrey's Funny Face (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Bert Hardy
Located in London, GB
Pacific Diver (1950) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images) Actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) on the set of the Paramount musical 'Funny Face'.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Ascari At Silverstone (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Ascari At Silverstone (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images) 25th August 1949: Italian motor racing driver Alberto Ascari (left) approaching St...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Big Smoke (1971) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
The Big Smoke (1971) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) 2nd February 1971: Seagulls drift above the waters of the Thames while in the background, t...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
On Target (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
On Target (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 18th July 1966: A beret by Simone Mirman is modelled by Caroline Dalgetty at the In...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Dior Boutique in Paris (1953) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Cary In Rain (1957) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images) 29th August 1953: A model wearing a muff and suit outside Christian Dior's boutiq...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Lunar Colors
Located in London, GB
C print Oversize 16 x 12" inches / 40 x 30 cm Unframed Framing & Different Sizes Available - Please Ask. By Luis Argerich via Getty Images Archive London England Luis Argerich...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Professor Mario Sposito' (Estate Edition)
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 'Princess Pia' (Estate Edition)
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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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.
Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.