Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel De Paris In Monaco 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Sta...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954) Slim Aarons Man Ray in Paris 1956 printed later C-Print Estate si...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954) Slim Aarons Man Ray in Paris 1956 printed later C-Print Estate si...
C Print
Hotel De Paris In Monaco Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel De Paris In Monaco 1977 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977 unframed c type print printed...
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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.
Color, Archival Pigment
$2,750
'Hotel De Paris In Monaco' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel De Paris In Monaco' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977.
C Print, Color
'Hotel De Paris In Monaco' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel De Paris In Monaco 1977 By Slim Aarons The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977.
Archival Pigment
Hotel De Paris In Monaco (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
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'French Stately Home' (1956) - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French Stately Home (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at t...
Color, C Print
Hotel De Paris In Monaco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Man Ray in Paris Estate Edition Photograph [Left Bank Surrealist Artist Studio]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Man Ray in Paris, 1956 (L'Etoile scellée) Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aaro...
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Le Comte de Paris with his wife the Comtesse, the Manoir du Coeur Volant, 1956
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.
C Print
French Stately Home, 1956 - Versailles Castle Grounds French Royal Family
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, is pictured here by Slim Aarons with his wife, the Comtesse, and their seven children at their family home, the Manoir du Coeur Vo...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Marsha Gayle on Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoying a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas.
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Marsha Gayle on Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoying a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas.
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Marsha Gayle on Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoying a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas.
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Andros Island (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Andros Island (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas, 1957.
Color, Archival Pigment
French Stately Home (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French Stately Home (1956) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at the...
Color, Archival Pigment
Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant (Photo by Slim Aarons) Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas, 1957.
Color, Archival Pigment
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H 20 in W 24 in
'Hotel De Paris' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel De Paris' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print August 1981: Prince de Polignac of Monaco and Estee Lauder sharing a toast before dinner at the Hotel de Paris in Mon...
C Print, Color
$5,400
H 40 in W 60 in
Catch Up by the Pool, California, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art deale...
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$3,750
H 56 in W 40 in D 0.1 in
"An Ending a Beginning" Photography 56" x 40" in Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo
By Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"An Ending a Beginning" Photography 56" x 40" in Edition 1/3 by Larsen Sotelo Not framed. Ships in a tube Signed and numbered by the artist. Comes with COA issued by the artist. Av...
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
$9,375
H 60 in W 40 in
Norman Parkinson 'Katherine Pastrie, Queen magazine, 1960'
By Norman Parkinson
Located in New York, NY
Norman Parkinson captures French model Katherine Pastrie for Queen Magazine, 1960. Katherine Pastrie, Queen Magazine 1960 printed later C print Estate stamped and numbered edition o...
C Print
$380
H 11 in W 14 in D 0.5 in
Rainbow Over Capitola Village, Santa Cruz - Colored Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Rainbow Over Capitola Village, Santa Cruz - Colored Photograph Color photograph of a rainbow shining over Capitola Village in Santa Cruz, California by John F. Hunter (American, 20t...
Ink, Photographic Paper
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969 A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Archival Pigment
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.