Slim Aarons 'Motorboats In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
1960s Modern Color Photography
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Motorboats In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Eden Roc Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Richard
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Pool In St Tropez'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Beach At St. Tropez'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
C Print
Slim Aarons ''Social Call, Las Brisas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Positano Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lounging In Verbier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Pool At Las Brisas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Richard Neutra's
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Monte Carlo Riva'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Richard
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Top Up?, Cannes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
Lambda
Corsica Island Paradise, 1984, Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition Print ED.150
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Swimmers At Las Brisas, 1972, Slim Aarons Estate Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer
C Print
$5,400
Deck Dwellers C Print by Slim Aarons, Estate Edition, 1967, 40x60
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Richard
C Print
Nelda's Pool C Print by Slim Aarons, Midcentury Modern, Signed, 30 x 40"
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
Dining Al Fresco On Capri, C Print, Slim Aarons, Estate Signed, 1980
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
$3,900
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971 Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Sarah Marson Williams, 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Natale Rusconi' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
Desert House Party, 1970, Slim Aarons Midcentury Modern Estate Edition Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Vuccino And Rava in Capri, 1958, Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda
C Print
Snowmass Village, 1968
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
Snowmass Village, 1968, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
C Print
Tofana ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, 1988
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Christmas Traffic on Park Avenue, New York City, 1953
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Richard
C Print
Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Poolside Backgammon, 1972, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Snowmass Gathering, 1968, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
C Print
Cat Shaped Pool at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
The Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, 1972
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Skiing Waiters, 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Skiing Waiters
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers on the Summit, 1955 - North Conway, New Hampshire
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer
C Print
Lounging On The Sugarbush Slopes, 1960 - Warren, Vermont
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
C Print
Snowmass Village, 1968, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
C Print
Desert House Party, 1970, Palm Springs, Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
The Beach at Mill Reef Club, Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer
C Print
English Harbour, Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
C Print
Mill Reef Club, Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
C Print
Cricket In Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Richard
C Print
Dixieland In Rome, 1948 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
Silver Gelatin
Tofana ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, 1988 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
Lambda
Elisabetta Catalano, Piazza Navona in Rome, 1971 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
Lambda
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Poolside Backgammon, 1972, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Il Pellicano Beach, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in his iconic 1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen
C Print
$3,900
Snowmass Gathering, 1968, Aarons, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
C Print
$5,400
Snowmass Gathering, 1968, Aarons, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk
C Print
$5,400
Catching The Sun In Cortina', Aarons, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
C Print
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc, 1969, Waterskiing, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer
C Print
Elephant Walk, 1977, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer
C Print
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and Nelda Linsk, and art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the
C Print
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1970 photograph "Poolside Gossip" series, which include the former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.
The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.
Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.
Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.
In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.