$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
$4,200
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Jhelum River 1961 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 30" inches / 101 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) H...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print - Palm Springs Party
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 60 x 40 inches / 152 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 - Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1970 - 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Swimming In Bermuda 1977- 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Poolside In Sotogrande 1975 - 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Skiers At Verbier 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Squaw Valley Snow 1961 - 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas 1972
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 12" inches / 40 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Beverly Hills Hotel 1957 - 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...
Color, 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 Estate Print - French Polo Crowd 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing Essentials 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Jamaica Sea Sailing 1953 - 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Nice Pool' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool' 60 x 60" inches / 152 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - The Carlton Hotel 1955 - 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Nirvana 1972 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
Nirvana 1972 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
$3,900
Ocean Club 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Archival Print, Limited Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ocean Club 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Versailles Gardens at the Ocean Club, Nassau with terraced steps leading from a swimming pool to a 14th century French cloisters. 20 x ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...
Archival Pigment
Pool In Sotogrande Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool In Sotogrande Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Gorgeous print measuring 60x40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size.
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Abaco Islander
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...
Archival Pigment
$3,900
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool By The Sea - Oversize 1969
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool By The Sea Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Archival Pigment
$6,100
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool By The Sea - Oversize 1969
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool By The Sea Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969. 72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
Archival Pigment
Kaufmann Desert House Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lita Baron and Helen Dzo Dzo are among the guests. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Color, Archival Pigment
Harriet at Mougins Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harriet at Mougins 1957: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere at Mougins, near Cannes in France. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
Color, Archival Pigment
Capote At Home Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capote At Home Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. 1958. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper ...
Color, Archival Pigment
Kaufmann Desert House Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann, and now owned by Nelda Linsk. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 pri...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Donald Leas 1968 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Donald Leas Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. 30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
Archival Pigment
Pool In Sotogrande 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
Beverly Hills Hotel Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. Gorgeous print measuring 30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Col...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sardinian Holiday 1967 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
Sunbathing On Capri 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Sea Drive 1967 - Oversize
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Marbella House Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella House Party Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain, August 1967. 60x40 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - 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
Dinner Jazz 1948 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size: 40" x 40'' (inches) Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-number...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
The Carlton Hotel Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Spectators At Lord’s Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Spectators At Lord’s Spectators at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, 1955. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Es...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Tina Onassis 1958 - 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Bad Luck Gloria 1951
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...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - NY Apartments 1953 - 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Eton Vs Harrow 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - 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) Hand...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 48 inches / 122 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) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Official Limited Edition Estate Print
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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast 1984 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. 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 15...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool By The Sea - Oversize 1969
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool By The Sea Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo 1962 - 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 'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Official Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 20 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - 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 Edition - Jamaican Jewel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 30 x 40 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
$5,700
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Spear Fishing In San Diego
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Spear Fishing In San Diego A spear fisherman in a mask, snorkel and wetsuit, with two boys on a beach in San Diego, California, October 1956. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper siz...
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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