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Slim Aarons, 'Apres Ski' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 - 2006), who developed the resort. Slim Aarons Apres Ski 1961 C print (Printed later) Estate si...
C Print
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H 16 in W 20 in
Slim Aarons, 'Apres Ski' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 - 2006), who developed the resort. Slim Aarons Apres Ski 1961 C print (Printed later) Estate si...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 - 2006), who developed the resort. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aaro...
C Print
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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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
Lambda
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H 60 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
Lambda
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H 20 in W 16 in
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
Lambda
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
Lambda
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H 30 in W 20 in
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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H 16 in W 12 in
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski Cocktails (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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$4,200
H 40 in W 30 in
Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski by Slim Aarons A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Apres Ski
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Apres Ski
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
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, California, 1961.
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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, California, 1961.
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H 60 in W 40 in D 0.1 in
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 rugs covering their knees, 1963. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estat...
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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 the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963 unframed c type print print...
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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 drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961.
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Apres Ski Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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H 40 in W 60 in
Apres Ski 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Apres Ski, Squaw Valley (Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 - 2006), who developed the resort. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publicati...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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H 60 in W 40 in D 0.1 in
Zermatt Skiing 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
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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 The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
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H 30 in W 20 in D 0.01 in
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing by Slim Aarons The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
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$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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H 20 in W 16 in
Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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H 72 in W 48 in
Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
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H 16 in W 12 in
Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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H 40 in W 30 in
Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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H 30 in W 20 in
Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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H 60 in W 40 in
Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
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H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Snowmass Gathering, 1968 - Apres Ski Aspen Colorado Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
'Snowmass Gathering, 1968' is a Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print by 20th Century photographer Slim Aarons. Own a piece of 1960s ski style in this vibrant and col...
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
$5,400
H 40 in W 60 in
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, a party of skiers adjourning for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, in 1961, one year after th...
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Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, CA 1961, one year after the 1960 Winter Olympics. Olympic Valley, California is an unincorporated community located in Placer C...
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Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 20 x 30 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photo...
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Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley), CA 1961. The festive mood is reflected in the colorful vintage skiwear, in red, yellow, blue, white a...
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H 10 in W 12 in
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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H 20 in W 24 in
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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H 60 in W 40 in
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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H 40 in W 30 in
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
Lambda
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H 20 in W 16 in
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
Lambda
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H 16 in W 12 in
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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H 30 in W 20 in
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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Apres Ski, Lounging in Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs Alfredo Cernadas reclines on a balcony in Gstaad, 1977. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collecto...
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H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Apres Ski, 1963 - Winter Ski French Alps Switzerland Travel Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Edition of 150. Printed Later. "Apres Ski, 1963" is a beautiful Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print from 20th Century photographer Slim Aarons.
C Print, Color, Digital
$5,400
H 40 in W 40 in
Apres Ski, Lounging in Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs Alfredo Cernadas reclines on a balcony in Gstaad, 1977. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate Collecto...
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H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Snowmass Picnic, 1967 - Aspen Skiing Colorado Apres Ski American Snow Sports
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Snowmass Picnic, 1967 - Aspen Skiing Colorado Apres Ski American Snow Sports by Slim Aarons 16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper.
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
$3,810
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Snowmass Village - Apres Ski Lunch Picnic at Snowmass in Aspen Colorado
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Snowmass Village - Apres Ski Lunch Picnic at Snowmass in Aspen Colorado by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
$3,810
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Gasthof Post Pool, 1979 - Austrian Wintersports and Apres Ski by Swimming Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Gasthof Post Pool, 1979 - Austrian Wintersports and Apres Ski by Swimming Pool by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Apres Ski 1961 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at the bar on t...
C Print
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad and Eagle Club
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eagle Club 1969 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) ...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Apres Ski
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Apres Ski - Estate Stamped Edition Limited to 150 only The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968 (Photo by Slim Aarons).
C Print, Color
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'Apres Ski' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Apres Ski' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
C Print, Color
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 ...
Lambda
Apres Ski, Estate Edition. 60s Tahoe Snowscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley), CA 1961. The festive mood is reflected in the colorful vintage skiwear, in red, yellow, blue, white a...
Lambda
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H 72 in W 48 in
Zermatt Skiing, Swiss Alps, Estate Edition, Snowy Mountain Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
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Apres Ski (Estate Stamped Limited Edition of 150)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Estate Stamped Limited Edition of 150 PHOTOGRAPHER BIO Sl...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
Apres Ski (Estate Stamped Limited Edition of 150)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Estate Stamped Limited Edition of 150 PHOTOGRAPHER BIO S...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color
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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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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