Apres Ski 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley
1960s Modern Color Photography
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Apres Ski 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley
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Apres Ski 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley
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Zermatt Skiing 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 40 x
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Apres Ski 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with
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Skiing Princess 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in
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Alpine Skiing 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alpine Skiing 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers waiting for the cable car at Verbier in
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Slim Aarons, Zermatt Skiing (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Zermatt Skiing, 1968 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland
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Cortina D'Ampezzo, Ski Lift, 1960 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A skier using the ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, 1962. Cortina D'Ampezzo 1962 C print
C Print
$1,500
Sugarbush Ski Lift Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
By Toni Frissell
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Ski Lift by Toni Frissell A skier peeks out from her ski lift pod on the slopes of
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Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in
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Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sugarbush Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 60 x 40" inches
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Slim Aarons, Skiing In Vail (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In Vail, 1964 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Skiers pass by a snow covered
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$1,800
Skiing Princess, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
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Skiing Princess, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
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$2,400
Skiing Princess, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
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Slim Aarons, Skiing in Stowe, Two Women
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont C print 30 x 30 inches Two women in knitwear, leaning on ski sticks
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'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters' Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski 1963 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 A group of women
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Sugarbush Ski Lift Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
By Toni Frissell
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Ski Lift by Toni Frissell A skier peeks out from her ski lift pod on the slopes of
Archival Pigment
Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Princess Luciana
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Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A young woman waiting to
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing Waiters Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Waiters 1960 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Three skiing waiters on a
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Chief of Protocol, 1961 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 The Honorable Angier Biddle Duke, Chief of Protocol for the State Department during the Kennedy Years, Novembe...
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Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A young woman waiting to
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing In Stowe (1962) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A young woman waiting to
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing Waitress Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Waitress Ski ‘bum’ Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on
Archival Pigment, Color
Skiing In Stowe (1962) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Travel, Photography, Retro, Vintage, High Society, Winter, Skiing
Color, Archival Pigment
Ski Instructors Only (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ski Instructors Only (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Skis leaning against
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Skiing Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Holiday 1967 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition American political
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New England Skiing Essentials (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Collection, High Society, Art, Artist, Photography, Vintage, Retro, Famous, Skiing, Holiday.
Black and White, Archival Pigment
New England Skiing Starters (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing Essentials (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A young
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Sugarbush Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 16×20 inches
Archival Pigment, Color
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size
Archival Pigment, Color
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size
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Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size
Archival Pigment, Color
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Princess Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria, 1968. 16×16
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Sugarbush Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 20 x 24
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'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing Waiters' Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a
Archival Pigment
$3,000
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s landscape
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$2,400
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s landscape
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$3,600
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s landscape
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$1,800
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s landscape
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'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing Waiters' Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm Three skiing waiters on a ski slope
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'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing Waiters' Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Zermatt Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968
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Tofana ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, 1988
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers using the Tofana ski lifts at Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, 1988. Ski lifts at Cortina
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Skiing Princess, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
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'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing Waiters' Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski 1963 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 A group of women
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Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski 1963 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A group of women reclining on
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Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski 1961 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A party of skiers adjourn for
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Alpine Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alpine Skiing Skiers waiting for the cable car at Verbier in Switzerland, 1964 20 x 20" - paper
Archival Pigment, Color
Sugarbush Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing An outdoor bar at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, March 1969 16×20
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Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Sugarbush Skiing 1960
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. Paper size 10 x
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Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ski
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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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