Slim Aarons 'Heliskiing in Gstaad
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Gossip and Kings of Hollywood. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
1960s Modern Color Photography
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Heliskiing in Gstaad
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Gossip and Kings of Hollywood. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Catching The Sun In Cortina'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, LIFE and most well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and
C Print
Slim Aarons, Catching The Sun In Cortina, 1976
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, LIFE and most well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and
C Print
St. Louis and the Arch Vintage Photograph Joel Meyerowitz Architectural Photo
By Joel Meyerowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Papageorge and Diane Arbus. He drew inspiration from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Eugène Atget
Photographic Paper, C Print
St. Louis and the Arch Vintage Photograph Joel Meyerowitz Architectural Photo
By Joel Meyerowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
Papageorge and Diane Arbus. He drew inspiration from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Eugène Atget
Photographic Paper, C Print
Winter Wear, Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1976 (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
Lambda
$3,000
Fallen Starr, Color Photograph of Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi in 1966, Signed
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
, Chicago Artist “Art Shay is America’s Cartier-Bresson.” Thomas Dyja, author of The Third Coast
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Skiing at Sugarbush'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Eye Of The Beholder, 1974
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving
C Print
Getty Christmas, 1979 - Midcentury Modern Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
C Print
Hang Gliding
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to join them in founding Magnum. Instead
C Print
Skiers Relaxing at Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1982
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and
Lambda
Crepes in Cortina d'Ampezzo
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
"Poolside Glamour." Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to
C Print
Eye Of The Beholder, 1974
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving
C Print
Skiing In Vail, 1964
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lambda
Satiric Dancer
By Andre Kertesz
Located in Palm Desert, CA
photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Brassaï. His work reached audiences throughout
Silver Gelatin
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke, 1980
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lambda
Skiers in Cortina D'Ampezzo
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons
C Print
Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1962
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and
C Print
Hotel De La Poste, Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1976
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and
C Print
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Ski Lift, 1960
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and
C Print
Skiers Relaxing at Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1982
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and
Lambda
Lounging In Verbier
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
in publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert
C Print
Snowmass Village, 1968
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and
C Print
Snowmass Village, 1968, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons
C Print
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke, 1980
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lambda
Tofana ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, 1988
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
publications like Town and Country, Holiday, Venture, and LIFE. Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and
Lambda
Le Café de France, Gelatin Silver Print, Signed, 12x16 Inches, 1979 by Ronis
By Willy Ronis
Located in New york, NY
his French photography compatriots Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Brassaï, Willy Ronis
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Cadillac at the Carlton Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathers at Eden Roc'
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
Lambda
Cortina d'Ampezzo (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Skiing In Vail (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lambda
Eye Of The Beholder, 1974
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum, leaving
C Print
Christmas Swim, Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
"Poolside Glamour." Though closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons chose not to
C Print
George Hamilton, St Tropez, 1977
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
Lambda
Slim Aarons, 'Eagle Club' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Zermatt Skiing' Midcentury 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
C Print
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'La Canzone Del Mare' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Poolside at Hotel du Cap' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Olivier Coquelin and Lahaina Kameha' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Private boats in Porto Ercole'Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Playboy Party' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them
C Print
$3,600
Slim Aarons, 'Caracalla Therme' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Pool At Las Brisas' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Mario Andretti at Monaco Grand Prix' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Esther Williams' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Algarve Hotel Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Marina Piccola' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'C.Z. Guest' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Belvedere Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
$4,200
Slim Aarons, 'Faraglioni Rocks' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them
C Print
$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Viscountess Isabelle' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Tiziana' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Bergese Villa' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Acapulco Holiday' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Snorkelling' Midcentury 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
C Print
Slim Aarons, 'Blue Seas' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
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.