Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Palm Springs Party' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Marbella Club Bather' Mid-Century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Il Canille' Midcentury
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
C Print
Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons, View From Il Pellicano (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
C Print
Titter, Scantily Clad Woman Viewing Titter Magazine, 1950 Vintage Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, ...
Silver Gelatin
$3,120Sale Price|20% Off
Slim Aarons, Poolside Pairs, Kaufmann House
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
The Nixons on LaSalle Street, Chicago, 1968, Color Photograph, Signed on Back
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, a...
Archival Pigment
Andy Griffith on Train in Nashville, 1961, Black and White Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, ...
Silver Gelatin
$2,200
President Barack Obama Michelle Inauguration Night Photo Vintage Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
A photojournalist's study of the Armenian diaspora on its 100th anniversary Commissioned work: The HALO Trust: 100 Women in Demining (2017) Ongoing Projects Karabakh: 2002-2020 Danzi...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Professor Mario Sposito' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Cushing And Neri'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Silver Gelatin
Sun Worship (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Princess Pia' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Mustique Hammock' (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Laguna Beach Surfers' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Royals On Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Burgenstock'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Lounging In Verbier (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
C Print
Surfing Brothers
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Two Leopards Spotted, Chicago 1974, Brookfield Zoo, Signed and Framed.
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, ...
Silver Gelatin
Nice Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Archival Pigment
Store Window. Marfa, TX
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
A Norman Rockwell Moment. Diner Albuquerque, NM
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Taxi Driver. Havana, Cuba
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Ballet Dancer in Abandoned Theater. Havana, Cuba
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Beverly Hills Hotel Sign' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Airshow. Stuart, FL
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Boy and Dog, Rome Italy
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Venice Beach, CA.
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Havana, Cuba. (Woman on Train)
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Tennis At Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Slim Arrives' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
Silver Gelatin
Gale Sayers #40, 1966 - Color Photograph by Art Shay for Sports Illustrated
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Pulitzer Fashions' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
C Print
$3,000
Brooklyn, Illinois, Twins, 1952 - For Ebony Magazine in Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, IL
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, ...
Silver Gelatin
Southern California, 2010
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Floating Horse, Saddle Shop Lake Worth, FL
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Funeral. Cuetzelan, Mexico
By David Saxe
Located in Hudson, NY
He started taking pictures in 1970, after being influenced by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier Bresson. About 10 years ago, he decided to take a workshop with Constantine ...
Archival Pigment
Blues Guitarist, Buddy Guy, 1966, Playing Guitar, Framed Photograph by Art Shay
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Russell Banks, Novelist “The best images of Simone de Beauvoir and her times have been passed down to us by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gisele Freund, Robert Doisneau, Georges Brassai, ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Tyrolean Churches (Mid-Century Modern Landscape Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In Seefeld' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
C Print
Slim Aarons, Skiing At Courchevel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons ' Palm Springs Party'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Soho Waiters Race (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
Silver Gelatin
$4,200
Slim Aarons, Poolside in Arizona (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lounging In Verbier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
C Print
Slim Aarons, Pool At Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving behind the world of black and white for sun-dazed glamour ...
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.