Slim Aarons Estate Edition - All Aboard
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Scone Madam 1960 - 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 'Beverly Hills Hotel' Official Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Nice Pool 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Princess Ruspoli 1979 - 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Peggy Guggenheim 1978 - 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 Estate Print - Fan Mail 1955 - 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 - Porto Ercole 1973 - Oversize
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 - Kaufmann Desert House 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 - Snowmass Picnic 1967 - 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 - The Fullers 1970 - 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 - All Mine 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 - Skiing Holiday 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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes 1976
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 - Oberon's Lunch 1966 - Oversize
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 - Jhelum River 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 Estate Print - Neo-Classical Pool 1985
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 - Abaco Islander 1986 - 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 - Donald Leas 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 - Speedboat Landing 1973 - Oversize
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 - Scone Madam 1960 - 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 - Speedboat Landing 1973 - Oversize
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 - Jean Serpieri 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 Estate Print - Tania Mallet 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 Estate Print - Lake Tahoe Couple - 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
Speedboat Landing 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 - Klosters 1963 - EstateStamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 × 127 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-numbe...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961. ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
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
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
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
Slim Aarons - Nicholsons 1959 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-numb...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
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
'Luxury Dining' Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Travel, Photography, Retro, Vintage, High Society, Architecture
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Speedboat Landing 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
Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Travel, Photography, Retro, Vintage, High Society, Architecture
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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
'Fan Mail' - Slim Aarons Official Limited Edition Estate Print Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30 / 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-number...
Archival Pigment
Motorboats In Antibes 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...
Archival Pigment, Color Pencil
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Kaufmann Desert House 1970 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
., 1970 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...
Archival Pigment
Saint Tropez 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...
Aluminum
Yacht Holiday - Slim Aarons - 20th century color photography - Nudes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
An exquisite LIMITED Edition Slim Aarons Ctype Print. Gorgeous print measuring a very large 60 x 40 inches / ca 152 x 101 cm's.
C Print
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Travel, Photography, Retro, Vintage, High Society, Architecture
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
French Polo Crowd (1950) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Travel, Photography, Retro, Vintage, High Society, Architecture
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Travel, Photography, Retro, Vintage, High Society, Architecture
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Having A Topping Time 1959 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Having A Topping Time Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collec...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Taormina
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 60" inches / ca 101.6 x 152.4 cm’s paper size.
Color, Archival Pigment
Yacht 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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion VII
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion VII Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961...
C Print, Color
'Relaxing At Lake Tahoe' Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Limited Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oversize Prints, Poolside, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Pool, Swimming, Holiday, Sun
Color, C Print
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...
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Two-Tone Dress 1956 - 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 - Desert House Party 1970 - 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Kaufmann Desert House 1970 - Oversize
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) ...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Kaufmann Desert House 1970 - 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...
Color, 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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