Family Snapper
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Family Snapper, 1959: Babe Paley and William Paley at their cottage in Round Hill, Jamaica Staley
1950s Color Photography
C Print
Family Snapper
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Family Snapper, 1959: Babe Paley and William Paley at their cottage in Round Hill, Jamaica Staley
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Family Snapper (Babe Paley)'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica, 1959. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications
Lambda
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Family Snapper Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica. A Wonderful Time unframed c type 16 x 16" inches - paper size Limited to
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Family Snapper (Babe Paley)'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill
Lambda
Family Snapper (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill
Color, Archival Pigment
$4,200
H 30 in W 30 in D 0.1 in
Family Snapper 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica 30 x 30" inches
Archival Pigment
$5,400
H 40 in W 40 in D 0.1 in
Family Snapper 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica 40 x 40" inches
Archival Pigment
$4,200
H 30 in W 30 in
Family Snapper 1959 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica. 30 x 30” / 76 x 76 cm paper
Archival Pigment
$5,400
H 40 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons - Family Snapper 1959 - Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica. 40 x 40” / 101 x 101 cm paper
Archival Pigment
$5,700
H 48 in W 48 in
Slim Aarons - Family Snapper 1959 - Official Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica. Paper size 48 x 48 / 121 x 121 cm paper
Archival Pigment
$5,700
H 50 in W 50 in
Slim Aarons - Family Snapper 1959- Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica. Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Family Snapper - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica. Gorgeous print
Archival Pigment
$1,800
H 10 in W 10 in
Liz Pringle, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica. This is
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
$2,400
H 12 in W 12 in
Liz Pringle, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica. This is
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Liz Pringle, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica. This is
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Slim Aarons Style 'Liz Pringle Refreshments in Jamaica'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
certificate of authenticity Fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort
Silver Gelatin
$3,838
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Liz Pringle, 1953 - Jamaican Island American Model Portrait Montego Bay Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Photographer Slim Aarons. Liz Pringle, originally an American model, opened the Round Hill Resort in
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Liz Pringle Refreshments in Jamaica
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica
Silver Gelatin
$2,500
H 20 in W 20 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Liz Pringle Refreshments in Jamaica
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica
Silver Gelatin
Unavailable
H 40 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons, Family Snapper 1959. Babe Paley at home, Round Hill cottage Jamaica
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica. 1950s. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons This photograph is from
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Family Snapper (Babe Paley)'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica, 1959. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications
Lambda
Sold
H 6.25 in W 6.25 in D 0.75 in
The Original Bill Paley 1996 by Kate Paley, Rare 1st Ed Private Printing
Located in valatie, NY
Round Hill, Jamaican vacation home (see A Wonderful Time), her husband Bill is in the background with a
Paper
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Babe Paley
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
. Paley, beside the pool at Round Hill, their villa in Jamaica, 1959 Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 20
Archival Pigment
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.
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The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later.
Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide.
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