Slim Aarons, Sailing in Sardinia, 1979
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
For more than a decade, IFAC Arts has placed Slim Aarons photographs in private collections worldwide.
1970s Modern Color Photography
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Slim Aarons, Sailing in Sardinia, 1979
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
For more than a decade, IFAC Arts has placed Slim Aarons photographs in private collections worldwide.
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Sailing in Sardinia' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing in Sardinia by Slim Aarons Two men adjusting the sail of a sailboat in Sardinia, Italy, 1978.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Sailing In Anguilla' 1992 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sailing In Anguilla' A couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies, January 1992. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm pape...
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Slim Aarons 'Sailing In Anguilla' 1992 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sailing In Anguilla' A couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies, January 1992. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm pa...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Spinnaker Sailing' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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Slim Aarons 'Spinnaker Sailing' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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Slim Aarons Spinnaker Sailing (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaica. Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953 Fiber print Estate edition of 150 Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authentici...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Spinnaker Sailing (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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Sailing Dinghy 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing Dinghy 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A boy and two girls lifting a sailing dinghy off its trailer, San Diego, California, October 1956. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm pap...
Archival Pigment
Sailing Dinghy 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing Dinghy 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A boy and two girls lifting a sailing dinghy off its trailer, San Diego, California, October 1956. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm pap...
Archival Pigment
Sailing Dinghy Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing Dinghy 1956 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A boy and two girls lifting a sailing dinghy off its trailer, San Diego, California, October 1956.
Archival Pigment
Nassau Sailing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nassau Sailing A flotilla of yachts, at Nassau in the Bahamas, March 1971. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Sailing Off Boston Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing Off Boston 1959 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Henry B.
Archival Pigment
Sailing In Anguilla Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing In Anguilla 1992 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West Ind...
Archival Pigment
'Nassau Sailing' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Color, Archival Pigment
Sailing In Anguilla Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Color, Archival Pigment
Sailing In The Bahamas 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing In The Bahamas 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A high angle view showing a formation of sailing boats in the Bahamas, 1964. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Est...
Archival Pigment
Sailing In The Bahamas 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing In The Bahamas 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A high angle view showing a formation of sailing boats in the Bahamas, 1964. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size Es...
Archival Pigment
Sailing In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing In The Bahamas 1964 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A high angle view showing a formation of sailing boats in the Bahamas, 1964.
Archival Pigment
$3,500
'Jamaica Sea Sailing' 1953 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Jamaica Sea Sailing' 1953 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition 1953: Two men sailing their yacht ‘Eel II’ in Jamaica.
C Print
Sailing In Lyford Cay Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing In Lyford Cay 1966 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A crew member tends to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas, April 1966.
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print - Jamaica Sea Sailing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Jamaica Sea Sailing 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Jamaica Sea Sailing 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Produced utilising the only original transparency or negative held at the Archive in London ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$2,750
'Sailing In Lyford Cay' 1966 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sailing In Lyford Cay' 1966 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A crew member tends to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas, April 1966.
C Print, Color
Sailing In Anguilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West ...
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Sailing In Anguilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West ...
Lambda
Sailing In Anguilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West ...
Lambda
Sailing In Anguilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West ...
Lambda
Sailing In Anguilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West ...
Lambda
Sailing In Anguilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West ...
Lambda
Sailing In Anguilla, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple adjusting the sail on their dinghy at a luxury resort on the island of Anguilla in the West ...
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Holiday In Boston Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holiday In Boston 1959 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A sailing holiday on Barclay (Buzzy) H.
Archival Pigment
Sailing in Sardinia C-Type Print, Aarons Estate-Stamped, 1978, 20x16"
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
For more than a decade, IFAC Arts has placed Slim Aarons photographs in private collections worldwide.
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Sailing in Sardinia C-Type Print, Aarons Estate-Stamped, Edition of 150, 1978
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
For more than a decade, IFAC Arts has placed Slim Aarons photographs in private collections worldwide.
Lambda
Jamaica Sea Sailing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaica. Slim Aarons Spring Break Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Jamaica Sea Sailing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaica. Slim Aarons Spring Break Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Jamaica Sea Sailing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaica. Slim Aarons Spring Break Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Spinnaker Sailing, Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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Spinnaker Sailing, Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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Sailing Dinghy (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing Dinghy (1956) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A boy and two girls lifting a sailing dinghy off its trailer, San Diego, California, October 1956.
Color, Archival Pigment
Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
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Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
Lambda
Sailing In The Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
Lambda
$1,800
Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
Lambda
$2,400
Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
Lambda
$3,000
Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
Lambda
$3,600
Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
Lambda
$2,400
Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
Silver Gelatin
Sold
H 24 in W 24 in
Model Boat Sailing in Central Park NYC, Estate Edition Photograph, Children Play
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Soft, diffuse light evokes an aura of childhood, and escapism from the chaotic energy of the city. Slim Aarons Model Boat Sailing (Central Park, New York) Chromogenic Lambda print S...
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Yacht Holiday 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Yacht Holiday' Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marbella, 1967. A group of topless bronzed young women captured from the back are seen enjoying the Spanis...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Great Harbour Cay Bahamas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Great Harbour Cay 1973 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A bathe...
C Print
$1,800
H 10 in W 12 in
Anguilla Beach Resort, Leeward Islands, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers on the mile-long crescent beach at the Hotel Cap Jaluca resort, Anguilla, Leeward Islan...
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'Stocking Island Bahamas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Snorkelling In The Shallows' A high angle view of people swimming next to the ketch 'Traveler II' , Stocking Island, Bahamas, 1964. Gorgeous print measuring a Extra Large 40 x 3...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Leisure In Antibes A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969. 60 x 40" inche...
Archival Pigment
$1,800
H 10 in W 12 in
Yachting Trip, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Selvaggia Borromeo wading ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in ...
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Slim Aarons 'Leisure In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Leisure In Antibes 1964 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tow...
C Print
$4,200
H 40 in W 30 in
Slim Aarons 'Blue Seas, Corsica, ' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Blue Seas, 1984, Printed Later Lambda C-print Estate Edition of 150 August 1984: Holidaymakers' yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsic...
Lambda
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969 A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole, ' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Porto Ercole, 1980, Printed Later Lambda C-print Estate Edition of 150 Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of ...
Lambda
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969 A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Archival Pigment
$4,200
H 30 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons 'Deck Dwellers' 1967 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Deck Dwellers' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of the yacht 'Traveler II', off the coast of Exuma in the Bahamas, ...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Leisure In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Leisure In Antibes 1964 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tow...
C Print
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
'Exuma Holiday' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A yachting holiday on Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1964. A stunning large yacht, festooned with colourful world flags is anchored close to a gorgeous white sand island, where two fig...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Great Harbour Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A bather on the beach on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152.4 x 101.6 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Yachting Trip 1967 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Yachting Trip Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967. Paper size 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm Estate Sta...
Archival Pigment
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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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.