$3,600
H 20 in W 24 in
'Porto Ercole' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' Henry R Kravis, Diana Beattie, Francesca Stanfill, Peter Tufo, Carolyne Roehm
Color, Archival Pigment
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private
Color, Archival Pigment
$3,600
H 20 in W 24 in
Porto Ercole Beach Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole Beach A quiet stretch of coastline in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, July 1991. Paper Size
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Porto Ercole 1973 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty
Archival Pigment
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
'Porto Ercole' Italy 1973 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Sunbathing In Porto Ercole
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A woman sunbathing on a balcony overlooking the harbour of Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy, August
Color, Archival Pigment
Porto Ercole, 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, August 1973. Slim Aarons Porto Erocole, 1973 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with
C Print
$3,950
H 60 in W 40 in
Porto Ercole - Italy - Slim Aarons 20th century colour photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at
C Print
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Italy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto
Archival Pigment
$6,100
H 72 in W 48 in
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Italy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto
Archival Pigment
$3,950
H 40 in W 60 in
'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
Aluminum
Britt Ekland in Porto Ercole (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Britt Ekland in Porto Ercole, 1969 Chromogenic lambda print 40 x 40 inches Edition of 150
C Print
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons, 'Private boats in Porto Ercole'Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons Private boats in Porto Ercole
C Print
$4,200
H 30 in W 40 in
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
Aluminum
$2,995
H 20 in W 30 in
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
Aluminum
$5,400
H 40 in W 60 in
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
Aluminum
Porto Ercole, 1973
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, August 1973. Slim Aarons Porto Erocole, 1973 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with
C Print
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Porto Ercole Boats - Porto Ercole Tuscany Italian Riviera Coastline Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Porto Ercole Boats - Porto Ercole Tuscany Italian Riviera Coastline Photograph by Slim Aarons 16
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A balcony overlooking the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, August 1969. Slim Aarons
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A balcony overlooking the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, August 1969. Slim Aarons
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A balcony overlooking the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, August 1969. Slim Aarons
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boats in the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, August 1967. Slim Aarons Estate
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boats in the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, August 1967. Slim Aarons Estate
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boats in the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, August 1967. Slim Aarons Estate
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The waterfront at Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The waterfront at Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The waterfront at Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Private boats in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Scio family villa in Porto Ercole, September 1986. Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Scio family villa in Porto Ercole, September 1986. Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Lambda
Porto Ercole, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Scio family villa in Porto Ercole, September 1986. Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Lambda
Porto Ercole Harbour, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boats in the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, September 1966. Slim Aarons Estate
Lambda
Porto Ercole Harbour, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boats in the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, September 1966. Slim Aarons Estate
Lambda
Porto Ercole Harbour, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boats in the harbour of Porto Ercole (Port'Ercole), Tuscany, September 1966. Slim Aarons Estate
Lambda
1967 'Porto Ercole' (Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' by Slim Aarons The waterfront at Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1967. A group of
C Print
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Porto Ercole Harbour - Monte Argentario Tuscany Harbour Italian Yachts
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Porto Ercole Harbour - Monte Argentario Tuscany Harbour Italian Yachts by Slim Aarons 16 x 20
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$4,200
H 40 in W 30 in
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people boating
Lambda
$3,900
H 30 in W 20 in
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people boating
Lambda
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people boating
Lambda
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people boating
Lambda
$2,400
H 16 in W 12 in
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people boating
Lambda
$3,000
H 20 in W 16 in
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people boating
Lambda
$1,800
H 12 in W 10 in
Porto Ercole, Italy, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people boating
Lambda
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Porto Ercole Watercraft, 1969 - Crystal Waters Italian Coastline Tuscany Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Porto Ercole Watercraft, 1969 - Crystal Waters Italian Coastline Tuscany Hotel by Slim Aarons 16 x
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1973 - Tuscany Hotel Crystal Waters Coastal View
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1973 - Tuscany Hotel Crystal Waters Coastal View by Slim Aarons 16" x 20
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in
Speedboat Landing - Il Pellicano Hotel Porto Ercole Tuscany Italy Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Speedboat Landing - Il Pellicano Hotel Porto Ercole Tuscany Italy Photograph by Slim Aarons 16 x
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Il Pellicano Pool - Porto Ercole Il Pellicano Hotel Tuscany Italian Riviera
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Il Pellicano Pool - Porto Ercole Il Pellicano Hotel Tuscany Italian Riviera by Slim Aarons 16 x 20
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
View from Il Pellicano - Italian Crystal Waters Tuscany Porto Ercole Coastline
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
View from Il Pellicano - Italian Crystal Waters Tuscany Porto Ercole Coastline by Slim Aarons 16
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
$3,858
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Porto Ercole Beach - Beach Parasols and Water Tuscan Coastline in Southern Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Porto Ercole Beach - Beach Parasols and Water Tuscan Coastline in Southern Italy by Slim Aarons 16
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
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.
What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?
Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.
Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.
Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.