Slim Aarons, Villa Borghese Lion
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, LIFE and most well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and
1970s Modern Color Photography
C Print
Slim Aarons, Villa Borghese Lion
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, Celebrity Cruise
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, Let's Twirl
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
C Print
Slim Aarons, Neo-Classical Pool
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, Beach Hut Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
C Print
Catherine Wilke in Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
Lambda
Monte Carlo Beach Club (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
C Print
Monte Carlo Beach Club (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
C Print
Sarah Marson Williams in Barbados
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
C Print
Price Upon Request
The Peacock, Jaipur, India
By Marc Riboud
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Magnum Agency after meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. After three months in the USSR in
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
India
By Marc Riboud
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Magnum Agency after meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. After three months in the USSR in
Silver Gelatin
Venice Gondolier (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, LIFE and most well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and
Lambda
Joan Collins Relaxes (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
Lambda
Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
Lambda
Catherine Wilke in Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Peace And Plenty (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
Lambda
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lambda
Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe in Red), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them
Lambda
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
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 '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
Madame Jean Serpieri (Aarons Estate Edition)
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
Lambda
Desert House Party (Slim 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
Caribe Hilton Beach (Slim 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
Slim Aarons, On The Slopes Of Sugarbush (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Life 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
Lambda
Skiers at Verbier (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photographs Poolside Gossip and Kings of Hollywood. Closely aligned with Robert
Archival Pigment
$2,400
Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet in Eleuthera' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons
C Print
Slim Aarons, View From Il Pellicano (Slim 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
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters' (Aarons Estate Edition)
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, Skiing In Gstaad (Estate Edition)
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, Campbell Falls, Massachusetts (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, LIFE and most well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Model Friend (Estate Edition)
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, Lido Life (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
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Exotic Hair Care (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, LIFE and most well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Caribe Hilton Beach (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Party in Bermuda (Estate Edition)
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, Vanes Villa (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
Lambda
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France
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
Slim Aarons 'Nice Pool'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
his photographs Poolside Gossip and Kings of Hollywood. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri
Archival Pigment
Poolside In Kenya (Slim Aarons, Estate Edition)
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, 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
Slim Aarons, Skiing In Vail III (Estate Edition)
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
Lambda
Slim Aarons, French Leave Hotel (Estate Edition)
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
Lambda
Skiing In Vail II
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
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Leguna Beach Surfers (Estate Edition)
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
Lambda
Slim Aarons, In Vogue Acapulco (Estate Edition)
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, La Voile d'Or, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
Lambda
$3,900
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden Roc' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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
Lambda
Peter and Britt
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
Lambda
Annevoie (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Snowmass Village (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
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Leguna Beach Surfers (Estate Edition)
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
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Vanes Villa (Estate Edition)
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, Hotel Taormina (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, LIFE and most well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and
Lambda
Slim Aarons, South Africa Swimming Pool (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aarons declined to join them in the founding of Magnum
Lambda
Slim Aarons, French Leave Hotel (Estate Edition)
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
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Cafe Terrace In Nice (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
well known for his photograph Poolside Glamour. Closely aligned with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier
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.