$3,000
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Golf Spectators' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A man wearing a bathrobe stands among the spectators at the Seminole Golf Club, Florida, circa 1955. Slim Aarons Golf Spectators 1955 Fiber Print Estate signature stamped and hand ...
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Golf Spectators' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A man wearing a bathrobe stands among the spectators at the Seminole Golf Club, Florida, circa 1955. Slim Aarons Golf Spectators 1955 Fiber Print Estate signature stamped and hand ...
Silver Gelatin
$3,600
Palm Beach Idyll, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida.
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Slim Aarons 'Arts Festival' Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Arts Festival by Slim Aarons The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964.
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Peter and Lilly Pulitzer in Palm Beach, Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Get...
C Print
Price Upon Request
C.Z.Guest, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and house by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Gett...
C Print
Seaplane At Palm Beach (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Seaplane At Palm Beach (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Serv...
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
C.Z. Guest with Consuelo Vanderbilt, Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Get...
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Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA.
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Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA.
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Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA.
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Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA.
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Everglades Club Boogie Dancer' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actress Lanita Kent takes to the dance floor at a party hosted by Jim Kimberly at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. Slim Aarons Boogie Dancer 1968 C-...
C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer Fashions' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three women wearing designs by Lilly Pulitzer take a break from shooting during a fashion shoot for Pulitzer at 400 South Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, Florida, 1964. Slim Aarons Lilly ...
C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Pulitzer Pool Party' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Pulitzer Pool Party 1961 Fiber Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate Max size 40x4...
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Polo Player Close Up' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A close-up portrait shot of a polo player in Palm Beach, Florida, 1977. Slim Aarons Polo Player Close Up 1970 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...
C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Everglades Club Dancers' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Lannan and Marcia Pressman enjoy a dance together at a party hosted by Jim Kimberly at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. Slim Aarons Patrick Lannan And...
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Pulitzer Pool Party' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Pulitzer Pool Party 1961 Fiber Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate Max size 40x4...
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Everglades Club Boogie Dancer' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actress Lanita Kent takes to the dance floor at a party hosted by Jim Kimberly at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. Slim Aarons Boogie Dancer 1968 C-...
C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Everglades Club Dancers' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patrick Lannan and Marcia Pressman enjoy a dance together at a party hosted by Jim Kimberly at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. Slim Aarons Patrick Lannan And...
C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Polo Player Close Up' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A close-up portrait shot of a polo player in Palm Beach, Florida, 1977. Slim Aarons Polo Player Close Up 1970 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer Fashions' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three women wearing designs by Lilly Pulitzer take a break from shooting during a fashion shoot for Pulitzer at 400 South Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, Florida, 1964. Slim Aarons Lilly ...
C Print
Leisure and Fashion, Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Internal: Mid-century Modern Palm Beach Art Deco Slim Aarons Colony Hotel
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Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Slim Aarons...
Color, Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Slim Aarons...
Color, Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Slim Aarons...
Color, Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Slim Aarons...
Color, Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Slim Aarons...
Color, Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Slim Aarons...
Color, Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach Slim Aarons...
Archival Pigment, Color
Palm Beach Villa, Florida, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Joe and Denise Hrudka relax with friends by the pool in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Palm Beach Villa, Florida, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Joe and Denise Hrudka relax with friends by the pool in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Palm Beach Villa, Florida, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Joe and Denise Hrudka relax with friends by the pool in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Palm Beach Villa, Florida, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Joe and Denise Hrudka relax with friends by the pool in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Palm Beach Villa, Florida, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Joe and Denise Hrudka relax with friends by the pool in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Molly Wilmot's Pool - Swimming Pool Sunbathing Palm Trees Beach Views
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Molly Wilmot's Pool - Swimming Pool Sunbathing Palm Trees Beach Views by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Price Upon Request
C.Z. Guest with Joanne Connelly in Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Get...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Her Designs' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pulitzer is seen back row, third from left, Wendy Vanderbilt is seen on the front row, right, wearing a yellow dress and pink headscarf. Slim Aarons Lilly Pulitzer And Her Designs ...
C Print
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Digital
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
NEW Slim Aarons 'Flo Smith And Friends' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and Dolly O'Brien (centre) with a friend in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. Slim Aarons Flo Smith And Friends 1955 Fi...
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Flo Smith And Friends' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and Dolly O'Brien (centre) with a friend in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. Slim Aarons Flo Smith And Friends 1955 Fi...
Silver Gelatin
NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The two Eliot Noyes designed houses were built by the Airform construction company by using reinforced concrete cast in place over an inflated balloon. Slim Aarons Hobe Sound Bubbl...
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The two Eliot Noyes designed houses were built by the Airform construction company by using reinforced concrete cast in place over an inflated balloon. Slim Aarons Hobe Sound Bubbl...
C Print
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Spring Break, 1950s - Bonita Springs Palm Beach Florida Students Spring Break
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Spring Break, 1950s - Bonita Springs Palm Beach Florida Students Spring Break by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Price Upon Request
Patsy Pulitzer relaxing by a pool in Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
Photographic Paper
$4,200
NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Her Designs' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pulitzer is seen back row, third from left, Wendy Vanderbilt is seen on the front row, right, wearing a yellow dress and pink headscarf. Slim Aarons Lilly Pulitzer And Her Designs ...
C Print
$5,400
NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Her Designs' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pulitzer is seen back row, third from left, Wendy Vanderbilt is seen on the front row, right, wearing a yellow dress and pink headscarf. Slim Aarons Lilly Pulitzer And Her Designs ...
C Print
Neo-Classical Pool - Swimming Pool by Grecian Architecture in Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Neo-Classical Pool - Swimming Pool by Grecian Architecture in Palm Beach by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
$4,200
NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Florence 'Flo' Pritchet' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and American fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer at a poolside luncheon, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961. Slim Aarons Lilly Puli...
C Print
$5,400
NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Florence 'Flo' Pritchet' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and American fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer at a poolside luncheon, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961. Slim Aarons Lilly Puli...
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C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane, Palm Beach (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guest, 1955: The American socialite with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955 Slim Aarons C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane, 1955 Lambda ...
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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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