Hotel Il Pellicano Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Il Pellicano The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Color, Archival Pigment
View From Il Pellicano Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
View From Il Pellicano 1991 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off the ...
Archival Pigment
$3,000
Slim Aarons, 'View From Il Pellicano' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The image was taken from Hotel Il Pellicano. Slim Aarons View From Il Pellicano 1991 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certific...
C Print
'Hotel Il Pellicano' Porto Ercole (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il Pellicano' by Slim Aarons The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Aluminum
View From Il Pellicano 1991 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
View From Il Pellicano 1991 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off the coast of Porto Ercole, ...
Archival Pigment
View From Il Pellicano 1991 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
View From Il Pellicano 1991 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off the coast of Porto Ercole, ...
Archival Pigment
Il Pellicano Pool 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Il Pellicano Pool, 1986 Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regar...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Il Pellicano' 1973 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il Pellicano' The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
Archival Pigment
$2,500
'View From Il Pellicano' 1991 - Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'View From Il Pellicano' 1991 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off the coast of...
Color
$4,200
Hotel Il Pellicano - Porto Ercole - Slim Aarons 20th century color photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il Pellicano' by Slim Aarons The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Aluminum
$2,995
Hotel Il Pellicano - Porto Ercole - Slim Aarons 20th century color photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il Pellicano' by Slim Aarons The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Aluminum
$5,400
Hotel Il Pellicano - Porto Ercole - Slim Aarons 20th century color photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il Pellicano' by Slim Aarons The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Aluminum
Il Pellicano Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Il Pellicano Beach, 1973 Chromogenic Lambda print A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Lambda
Il Pellicano Tennis, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Lambda
Il Pellicano Tennis, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Lambda
Il Pellicano Pool, Estate Edition, Seascape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury midcentury seascape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, I...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, ...
Lambda
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
View from Il Pellicano - Estate Stamped C-Type Print, Limited Edition Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
View from Il Pellicano by Slim Aarons 16" x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Digital, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print
View From Il Pellicano, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1990s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off t...
Lambda
Il Pellicano Pool - Limited Edition C-Type Print, 16 x 20 Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Il Pellicano Pool by Slim Aarons 16" x 20" print.
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Il Pellicano Pool - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Color C-Type, 16 x 20 Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Il Pellicano Pool by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1973 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
"Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1973" is a Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print by 20th Century American photographer Slim Aarons. Slim Aarons takes a bather's viewpoint in ...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, ...
Lambda
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.
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.