Skiers At Sugarbush, 1960, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Monte Carlo, 1975, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, 1983, Aarons, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Courchevel, Apes Ski, 1970, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Princess Hotel, 1975
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Princess Hotel, 1975
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Sugarbush Skiing, 1960, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Monte Carlo, 1975, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,000
Slim Aarons, 'Skiers At Sugarbush' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Skiers At Sugarbush, 1960, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Vane's Villa, Majorca 1987, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Courchevel, Apes Ski, 1970, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$4,200
Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, 1983, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,900
Castello Di Paraggi, 1977, Portofino Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,600
Riviera Crowd, 1957, French Riviera, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Rhode Island Surfers' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Polo Match' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Polo Match' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,000
Slim Aarons, 'Skiers At Gstaad' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,600
Slim Aarons, 'Lounging In Verbier' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Lounging In Gstaad' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Zermatt Skiing' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Saint-Tropez Beach' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,000
Slim Aarons, 'Skiers At Sugarbush' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Princess Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,600
Slim Aarons, 'Sugarbush Skiing' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Great Harbour Cay' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Pool At Las Hadas' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Camelback Inn' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Arturo Pani's Villa' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Polo World Cup' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Portofino Harbour' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,000
Slim Aarons, 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Yacht Holiday' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,600
Slim Aarons, 'Beach At St. Tropez' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'North Conway Sleigh' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Caleta Beach, Acapulco' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Porto Ercole' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Skiers In St. Moritz' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Skiing At St. Moritz' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic "Poolsid...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' Midcentury Modern Photography - Backgammon
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Henry Fonda' Midcentury Modern Photography : Celebrity
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'CZ's House, Villa Artemis' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Polo Prince' Prince Charles
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
$3,900
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography - Architecture
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'USA Trianon' : Mid-Century Modern Photography : Architecture
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Laura Hawk at Paestrum' : Mid-Century Modern : Ancient Ruins
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Katharine Hepburn, Montego Bay' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Kennedy and Friends' Midcentury Modern Photography - Flight
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Gloria Schiff at Lyford Cay' : Mid-Century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Boating In Antigua' : Mid-Century Modern Photography : Seaside
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Acrylic Polymer, Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Truman Capote at Home' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography - Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Known for his unique, candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work is a celebration of vintage elegance and opulent leisure, particularly evident i...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lounging In Verbier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'St Moritz Skiers' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renowned for his candid portraits of celebrities, socialites, and the global elite, Aarons' work celebrates vintage elegance and opulent leisure, as epitomized in his iconic 1970 pho...
Lambda
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.
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
Find a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art 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.