Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lake Tahoe Ladies 1959
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Poolside Chez Holder 1970
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 10 x 12" inches / 25 x 30 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Checkered Flag 1963 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Satin Seduction 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Poolside In Arizona 1973
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 20" inches / 40 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - No Transport Problems 1982
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
No Transport Problems Mrs Woolworth Donahue with car and bicycles on her motor yacht, ‘Hartline’ Paper size 16 x 20" inches / 40 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Alpine Skiing 1964 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Von Oswald House 1986
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 10 x 12" inches / 25 x 30 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Harriet at Mougins 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Vila Vera 1968 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - John Rawlings 1950 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Chalet Costi 1968 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Yachting Trip 1967 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Verbier Vacation 1964 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Underwater Drink 1972 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Penthouse Pool 1961 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Guests At Villa Nirvana - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Guests At Villa Nirvana Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing - Oversize C Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Color, Archival Pigment
Hpaung Daw U Pagoda Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Snowmass Village 1968
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village Two fashionably attired women stand in the foreground of a snowy landscape with a helicopter on the slopes of Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March...
Archival Pigment
$6,100
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Speedboat Landing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Speedboat Landing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
You Look Wonderful Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Color, Archival Pigment
Swimmer And Sunbather Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Color, Archival Pigment
Desert House Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Color, Archival Pigment
Palm Springs Life Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - My Toy 1982
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Snowmass Village 1968
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village Two fashionably attired women stand in the foreground of a snowy landscape with a helicopter on the slopes of Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Motorcycling Lord 1990
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 10 x 12" inches / 25 x 30 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Snowmass Gathering 1968
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 10 x 12" inches / 25 x 30 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas 1972
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans 1960 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 48" inches / 121 x 121 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Seaplane At Palm Beach 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$4,200
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Beverly Hills Hotel 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Han...
Archival Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Print Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957.
Archival Pigment
$4,200
Eleuthera Pool Party - Slim Aarons - Bahamas - color photography 20th century
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eleuthera Pool Party' by Slim Aarons LIMITED EDITION ESTATE STAMPED PRINT Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
C Print
$4,200
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pop And Society - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed painting of a woman in 18th century dress at Leixlip Castl...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes 1976
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Antibes Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size...
Archival Pigment
$5,700
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Abaco Islander 1986 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His ancestor Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, founding Hope Town. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pop And Society - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed paintin...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lounging In Verbier - Super Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Size 72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-n...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Kaufmann Desert House - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lita Baron and Helen Dzo Dzo are among the guests, 1970 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Neo-Classical Pool 1985
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985. 40 x 72" inches paper size ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - All Mine 1968 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
$4,200
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes 1976
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Oberon's Lunch 1966 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Circa 1966. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of ...
Archival Pigment
$4,200
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Polo Party 1981 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Abaco Islander 1986 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, founding Hope Town. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
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.
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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.
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