Slim Aarons A Poolside Story (50th Anniversary 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, Peace And Plenty (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, Peace And Plenty (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
Swimmers, East Hampton, NY.
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Gator Hook, Gator Hook Trail
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Airpark Road, Ten Thousand Islands, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
White Pelicans, Ten Thousand Islands, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Big Cypress, Turner River, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Pelican Island, Pelican Island, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Clubhouse Beach, Bear Island, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Turner River, Turner River, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Bear Island, Bear Island, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
River of Grass, Turner River, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Monroe Station, Loop Road, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Everglades City, Everglade City, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
American Alligator, Turner River, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Indian Key, Picnic Key, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Biscanye Aquifer, Gator Hook Trail, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Ten Thousand Islands, Ten Thousand Islands, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Loop Road, Monroe Station, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Picnic Key, Picnic Key, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Chokoloskee Bay, Picnic Key, Everglades National Park, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations.
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Gator Hook, Gator Hook Trail, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL
By Gesi Schilling
Located in Hudson, NY
Including a few images in black and white, Schilling cites Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa among her inspirations. In the invitation piece “Gator Hook,” Finn’s reflection cuts...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Suffocation, Hurricane Earl in Montauk
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
In The Light, Paris
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Wanderer From The Train in Southern India
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Atlantic City, New Jersey
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Void within me, India-Pakistan Border
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Against me, Garment District NY.
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Suffocation, Hurricane Earl in Montauk
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Promised Happiness, Brooklyn, NY
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Residence, Snowstorm, New Jersey
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Forgive me, Ethiopia
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Are You Awake, 7th Street, East Village, NY
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Silhouette, Bar 81 Les, NY.
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Street to your house, Financial District, NY.
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Group on the beach, Los Angeles
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Void Within Me, Ethiopia
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
My Magic, William Street, NY
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
The journey, Airplane to Hong Kong
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Man in the Ocean, Coast of Maine
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Houston Street, NY
By Haik Kocharian
Located in Hudson, NY
The style is reminiscent of photojournalism forefathers such as Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson yet with a Fellini-esque twist.
Archival Pigment
Three to Four Ages of Women - Black and White Street Photography 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
Boxing Great, Rocky Graciano in Locker Room After Fight, 1948
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, Relaxing At Lake Tahoe
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
George Hamilton in 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
Cafe in Monte Carlo (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
Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, Sunday Morning Walk for Ebony Magazine, 1952
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
Martin Luther King Speaking at Soldier Field, Chicago 1966
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
Marlon Brando Kissing Dog, Libertyville, IL 1950 - Large Format Black & White
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
Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, Brothers, for Ebony Magazine, 1952 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, ...
Silver Gelatin
Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, Sisters for Ebony Magazine, 1952, 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, a...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons (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
Lovejoy AKA Brooklyn, Illinois, Crossing the Street, for Ebony Magazine, 1952
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
$5,400
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
Twice Blessed, Princess Laudomia Hercolani
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.