Slim Aarons 'Fountain Of Shame, Piazza Pretoria, Palermo'
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 Capri, Catherine Wilke
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, Apres Ski, Gstaad (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 'Gucci Pooch' Venice
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 'Trevi Fountain, Rome'
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 'Laudomia And Alessandro Pucci'
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 'Conte Giovanni Nuvoletti-Perdomini'
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 'Versace And Spagnol'
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 'Castle Carpeneto'
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, Chalet Costi (Style)
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, Desert House Party (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, Il Canille, Capri (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 'Jazz Scooter'
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, Il Canille, Capri (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 Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
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, Poolside Party, (Kaufmann Desert Hous)
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 Style 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
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, Eleuthera Pool Party (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 'Henley Regatta'
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 'Cricketers on the Pitch'
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 'Brunch At Brennan's'
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 'Garden 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 ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Port Life'
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 'Cortina d'Ampezzo Fashion'
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
Chalet Costi (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 'Villa In Sotogrande'
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 'Porto Ercole Harbour'
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 'Hotel Krone, Lech'
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 'Pool At Porto Rotondo'
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 'Natale Rusconi onboard Cipriani's Riva in Venice'
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 'Peggy Guggenheim in Venice'
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 'Tennis in the Bahamas' ( 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'
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
'Lech Ice Bar' Slim Aarons
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 'Cecily Godfrey in Hong Kong'
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
Poolside Scenery (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 'Poolside Friendship'
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 'Las Brisas' 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
Civilized Snooze
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, Beverly Hills Hotel
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, Ester Williams
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 'Lake Tahoe Couple'
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 'Exotic Hair Care'
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
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
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 'On The Slopes In Stowe' (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, Apres Ski, Gstaad (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, 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie'
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 'Pussyfooting'
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 'Sea Drive'
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 'Sundowners, Cannes' 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 'Harriet De Rosiere At Mougins' 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 'Darryl Zanuck In Cannes' 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 'Cannes Cannes Girls' 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 'The Carlton Hotel Cannes' 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
Slim Aarons 'Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes' 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 'Guests at the entrance to the Carlton' Mid-century 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
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.