Palm Beach Idyll, Estate Edition, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
seasons, making it a timeless piece to appreciate year-round. Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll, 1955 Printed
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Palm Beach Idyll , Estate Edition, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
seasons, making it a timeless piece to appreciate year-round. Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll, 1955 Printed
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print Estate stamped and
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 12 x 10 inches
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 16 x 16 inches
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 12 x 10 inches
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 30 x 30 inches
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 12 x 10 inches
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 12 x 10 inches
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. C print 12 x 10 inches
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Palm Beach 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida
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Palm Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1955. 16×16 inches - paper
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Palm Beach Idyll, Estate Edition. Vintage 1950s Florida, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
seasons, making it a timeless piece to appreciate year-round. Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll, 1955 Printed
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathes by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyl A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyl A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA (Photo by Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Gorgeous print
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Slim Aarons, Lillian Crawford Palm Beach, 1970
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Lillian Crawford Palm Beach, 1970 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
C Print
Slim Aarons, Lillian Crawford Palm Beach, 1970
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Lillian Crawford Palm Beach, 1970 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
C Print
Slim Aarons, Lillian Crawford Palm Beach, 1970
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Lillian Crawford Palm Beach, 1970 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
C Print
Palm Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oz Tennis Stars 1956 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Australian tennis players
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Palm Beach Debutantes 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Debutantes 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Young debutantes in Palm Beach, Florida
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Palm Beach Society 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Society 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Palm Beach socialite Jim Kimberly (far left
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Palm Beach Pastels 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pastels 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a
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Palm Beach Society 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Society 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Palm Beach socialite Jim Kimberly (far left
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Palm Beach Debutantes 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Debutantes 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Young debutantes in Palm Beach, Florida
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Palm Beach Pastels 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pastels 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a
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Palm Beach Pagoda 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pagoda 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Cynthia Eichler (sitting) with Vicky Schaft
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Palm Beach Pagoda 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pagoda 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Cynthia Eichler (sitting) with Vicky Schaft
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Palm Beach Street 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm
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Palm Beach Party 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Party 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A pool party in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1964
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Palm Beach Debutantes Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Debutantes 1968 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Young debutantes in
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Palm Beach Idyll Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll 1955 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A couple sunbathing by
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Palm Beach Party Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Party 1964 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A pool party in Palm
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Palm Beach Street Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street 1953 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Cars parked on a tree
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Palm Beach Pastels Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pastels 1959 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Socialite Alice
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Palm Beach Society Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Society 1968 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Palm Beach socialite
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Palm Beach Pagoda Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pagoda 1985 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Cynthia Eichler
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Slim Aarons, Lillian Crawford Palm Beach - Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lillian Crawford poolside, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970. Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA (Photo by Slim Aarons
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Palm Beach Ladies Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Ladies' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print American socialite Wendy
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA. 40 x 40" inches
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Palm Beach Habituees Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Habituees Mr and Mrs Guillermo Aguilera at Palm Beach, 1970. Paper Size 24x20 inches
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Palm Beach Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Party A pool party in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1964. Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x
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Palm Beach Idyll Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA. Paper Size 40x40
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Palm Beach 1955 - Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150). The pool at the Colony
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'Nice Pool' Palm Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nice Pool' Palm Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston
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Slim Aarons 'Royal Knitting, Seminole Club, Palm Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
. The Duke's were knitted by the Duchess. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty
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Slim Aarons 'Royal Knitting, Seminole Club, Palm Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
. The Duke's were knitted by the Duchess. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty
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'Nice Pool' Palm Beach (SLIM AARONS Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' by Slim Aarons American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and
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Slim Aarons 'Royal Knitting, Seminole Club, Palm Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
. The Duke's were knitted by the Duchess. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty
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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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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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