Sarah Marson Williams, 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition Print
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
Desert House Party, 1970, Slim Aarons Midcentury Modern Estate Edition Print
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
Snowmass Village, 1968
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
Snowmass Village, 1968, 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
Tofana ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, 1988
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
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Phil Richards' Pool' 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
Christmas Traffic on Park Avenue, New York City, 1953
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
Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo
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
Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo
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
Snowmass Gathering, 1968, 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
Cat Shaped Pool at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, 1955
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
The Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, 1972
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
Skiing Waiters, 1955
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
Skiing Waiters
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
Cranmore Mountain Skiers on the Summit, 1955 - North Conway, New Hampshire
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
Lounging On The Sugarbush Slopes, 1960 - Warren, Vermont
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
Snowmass Village, 1968, 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
Desert House Party, 1970, Palm Springs, Midcentury Modern
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
Nelda By The Pool, 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
Slim Aarons 'Catch Up By the Pool' Kaufmann Desert House
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
The Beach at Mill Reef Club, Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
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
English Harbour, Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
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
Mill Reef Club, Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
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
Cricket In Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
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
Dixieland In Rome, 1948 (Unseen)
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...
Silver Gelatin
Tofana ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, 1988 (Unseen)
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
Elisabetta Catalano, Piazza Navona in Rome, 1971 (Unseen)
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
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971, 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
Il Pellicano 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
$3,900
Snowmass Gathering, 1968, 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
$5,400
Catching The Sun In Cortina', 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
$5,400
Snowmass Gathering, 1968, 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
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc, 1969, Waterskiing, 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
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971, 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
Elephant Walk, 1977, 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
On The Slopes Of 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
Snowmass Village, 1968, 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
Elephant Walk, 1977, 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
Sunbathing In Bürgenstock, 1955, 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
Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971, 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
Sarah Marson Williams, 1976, 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
Sunbathing In Bürgenstock, 1955, 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
Snowmass Village, 1968, 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
Elephant Walk, 1977, 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
Little Beach House, Acapulco, 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
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc, 1969, Waterskiing, 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
Vuccino And Rava, 1958, Capri, 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
Portofino Villa, 1977, Casa Montefino, 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, 'Natale Rusconi' 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, 'Dining Al Fresco On Capri' 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, 'Catching The Sun In Cortina' 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
Slim Aarons, 'Snowmass Gathering' 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, 'On The Slopes Of 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
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Snowmass Village' 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, 'Deck Dwellers' 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
Slim Aarons, 'Relaxing in Lech' 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
Slim Aarons, 'Pool In 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
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.