$5,700
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Internal: Athens, Greece, Slim Aarons Poolside Photography, Vintage Summer, Vintage Slim Aarons Poolside, Poolside Glamour, Vintage Greek Pool
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Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Internal: Athens, Greece, Slim Aarons Poolside Photography, Vintage Summer, Vintage Slim Aarons Poolside, Poolside Glamour, Vintage Greek Pool
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Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Internal: Athens, Greece, Slim Aarons Poolside Photography, Vintage Summer, Vintage Slim Aarons Poolside, Poolside Glamour, Vintage Greek Pool
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Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Internal: Athens, Greece, Slim Aarons Poolside Photography, Vintage Summer, Vintage Slim Aarons Poolside, Poolside Glamour, Vintage Greek Pool
Lambda
Poolside Pairs, Kaufmann House
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Poolside Pairs, Kaufmann Desert House 1970 C Print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, desig...
Lambda
Keep Your Cool, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games, ocean, Fra...
Lambda
Keep Your Cool, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games, ocean, Fra...
Lambda
Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Poolside Party, Palm Springs Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Lambda
Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Poolside Party, Palm Springs Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Lambda
Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Poolside Party, Palm Springs Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Lambda
Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Poolside Party, Palm Springs Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Lambda
Poolside Party Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Poolside Party, Palm Springs Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, framed
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Internal: Athens, Greece, Slim Aarons Poolside Photography, Vintage Summer, Vintage Slim Aarons Poolside, Poolside Glamour, Vintage Greek Pool
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Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, Poolside (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage...
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Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, Poolside (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage...
Lambda
Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Internal tags: Lake Tahoe; Slim Aarons; architecture poolside, mountain, pool and sky; mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage tahoe, vintage california border, vintage nev...
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Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Internal tags: Lake Tahoe; Slim Aarons; architecture poolside, mountain, pool and sky; mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage tahoe, vintage california border, vintage nev...
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Slim Aarons 'Lake Tahoe Couple' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Internal tags: Lake Tahoe; Slim Aarons; architecture poolside, mountain, pool and sky; mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage tahoe, vintage california border, vintage nev...
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Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
* Internal tags: Lake Tahoe; Slim Aarons; architecture poolside, mountain, pool and sky; mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage tahoe, vintage california border, vintage nev...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Bar
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.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Bar
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.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Poolside Party
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.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Poolside Party
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.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Scenery (Slim Aarons 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
$6,100
Slim Aarons 'Desert House Party' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986, centre, standing), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo (second from...
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Reflections
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holiday makers relaxing by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. Gorgeous print measuring a large 40" x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm's. Est...
Archival Pigment
$3,900
Slim Aarons 'Desert House Party' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Helen Dzo Dzo is seen in the centre wearing a white crochet outfit. Slim Aarons Desert House Party (sister image to Poolside Gossip and Poolside Glamour) Chromogenic Lambda print Pr...
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Poolside Backgammon, 1972, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons Poolside Backgammon 1972 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped an...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Desert House Party' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Discover this stunning photograph from Slim Aarons sought-after Palm Springs 'Poolside' series.
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Poolside Backgammon, 1972, Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons Poolside Backgammon 1972 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped an...
C Print
Poolside Bar 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Bar 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper ...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Bar 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Bar 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm paper s...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Interruptions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Interruptions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lita Baron talking with a guest at a poolside party at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Interruptions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Interruptions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lita Baron talking with a guest at a poolside party at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm pap...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Luncheon 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Luncheon 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests enjoying luncheon in a marquee by the pool at Mrs Reed Albee’s house, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968 30 x 40" inches / 7...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Luncheon 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Luncheon 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests enjoying luncheon in a marquee by the pool at Mrs Reed Albee’s house, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968 40 x 60" inches / 1...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Secrets 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Secrets 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Flo Smith (left) and Lily Pulitzer at a pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961. 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size E...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Service 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Service 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A swimming pool at the Lyford Cay Club at Lyford Cay on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, 1962.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm pa...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-numbered in ink on the front Blind embo...
Color, Archival Pigment
Poolside Party 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
Poolside Bar Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Bar 1980 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980 unframed c type ...
Archival Pigment
Poolside In Sotogrande - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside In Sotogrande - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Interruptions Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Interruptions 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Lita Baron talking with a guest at a poolside party at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, Ca...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Party - Limited Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C print 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm unframed
C Print, Color
Poolside Party 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
Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A fashion show at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1961 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Drinks 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Drinks 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests around the pool at Dorothy Laughlin’s Santa Barbara home. 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Party 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Party 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Fashions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Fashions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Dreams 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Dreams 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Helen Dzo Dzo at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Fashions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Fashions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A fashion show at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1961 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
Archival Pigment
'Poolside Chez Holder' Slim Aarons 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.
Archival Pigment
'Poolside In Sotogrande' (Slim Aarons 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.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Host 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Host 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970.
Archival Pigment
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Li...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Gaze 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Gaze 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Li...
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.