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Slim Aarons, Skiing In Vail II (Estate Edition)

Slim AaronsSlim Aarons, Skiing In Vail II (Estate Edition), 1960

$5,400

Slim Aarons, Skiing In Vail II (Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Skiing In Vail II, 1960 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 A group of skiers stand in

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Apres Ski, Squaw Valley (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim AaronsApres Ski, Squaw Valley (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1961

$4,200

Apres Ski, Squaw Valley (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at the bar on top of peak KT-22, Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing ...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing At Cannon Mountain
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing At Cannon Mountain

Slim AaronsSlim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing At Cannon Mountain, 1955

$5,400

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing At Cannon Mountain

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

scenes that continue to influence modern fashion, art, and celebrity photography. His work is synonymous

Category

1950s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

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Ski Photography For Sale on 1stDibs

Surely you’ll find the exact piece of ski photography you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. You can easily find an example made in the Contemporary style, while we also have 19 Contemporary versions to choose from as well. Finding the perfect item from our selection of ski photography may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 20th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 21st Century. On 1stDibs, the right choice in our collection of ski photography is waiting for you and the choices span a range of colors that includes gray, blue, purple and silver. Finding an appealing object in our assortment of ski photography — no matter the origin — is easy, but Slim Aarons, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, Rodney Smith, Harry Benson and H. Armstrong Roberts each produced popular versions that are worth a look. Artworks like these — often created in digital print, lambda print and laser print — can elevate any room of your home.

How Much is a Ski Photography?

The price for a piece of ski photography in our collection starts at $80 and tops out at $30,000 with the average selling for $2,922.

Slim Aarons for sale on 1stDibs

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.

Finding the Right Photography for You

Find a broad range of photography on 1stDibs today.

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. 

What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?

Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.

Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.

Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more. 

Questions About Slim Aarons
  • What was Slim Aarons’s real name?
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    1stDibs ExpertNovember 20, 2024
    Slim Aarons's real name was George Allen Aarons, and his nickname came from the fact that he was tall and slender. An American photographer, Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty and Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach. 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. Find a selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.

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