Slim Aarons Estate Print - Kaufmann Desert House 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 - Capote at Home 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) ...
Color, Archival Pigment
Pop And Society Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release fro...
Color, Archival Pigment
Desert House Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release fro...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Digging For Clams - 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Fan Mail' 1955- Slim Aarons Official Limited Edition Estate Print Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Fan Mail' 1955 Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ had been released. ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Luxury Dining 1955 - 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...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Slim Aarons Estate Print - A Helping Hand 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
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Nicholsons
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 - Dali And Gala 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...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Seaplane At Palm Beach 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 - Digging For Clams 1960 - 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
'Annevoie' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
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...
Archival Pigment
'Nirvana' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
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...
Archival Pigment
'Montecatini' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Klosters' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Klosters' Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963. 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Nicholsons - Estate Stamped
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 Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. 48x48" / 122 x 122 cm paper s...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Positano Beach
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 Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954. 60x60" inches / 152 x 152 cm ...
Archival Pigment
Catherine Wilke - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) 20 x 16" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regard...
Archival Pigment
Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Archival Pigment
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The village was opened in 1967. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints on...
Archival Pigment
Tania Mallet - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film ‘Goldfinger’. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
Archival Pigment
Speedboat Landing - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Speedboat Landing - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped August 1973:A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Er...
Archival Pigment
Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Archival Pigment
The Fullers - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190S...
Archival Pigment
Megachess 1993- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Megachess 1993- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...
Archival Pigment
Megachess 1993- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Megachess 1993- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...
Archival Pigment
Annevoie 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Annevoie 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Jean and Christiane de Montpellier d’Annevoie float across the moat of their home, Annevoie, Belgium. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper ...
Archival Pigment
Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Heinrich Dite and Leonie Heller play a variety of curling in Lech, Austria. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
Archival Pigment
Socialites 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest) sitting with Joanne Connolly in Palm Beach, Florida. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
Archival Pigment
Annevoie 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Annevoie 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Jean and Christiane de Montpellier d’Annevoie float across the moat of their home, Annevoie, Belgium. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper ...
Archival Pigment
Tania Mallet - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film ‘Goldfinger’. 48 x 48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
Archival Pigment
The Fullers - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190S...
Archival Pigment
Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Heinrich Dite and Leonie Heller play a variety of curling in Lech, Austria. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
Archival Pigment
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The village was opened in 1967. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints on...
Archival Pigment
Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
Archival Pigment
Klosters 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Klosters 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
Archival Pigment
Catherine Wilke - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regard...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Culinary Heights
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-n...
Archival Pigment
Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Garden Party - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. 10 x 10" inches / 25 x 25 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Barbados Bliss
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss by Slim Aarons Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, April 1976. 60 x 60 inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion X
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion X Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961.
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion V
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion V Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961. ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion VIII
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion VIII Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 196...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IX
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IX Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961....
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion XI
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion XI Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961....
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IV
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion IV Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961....
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion VI
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion VI Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961....
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion III
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion III Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion II
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Party At The Playboy Mansion II Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner enjoying themselves at a party being held at the Playboy Mansion, Chicago, 1961....
Archival Pigment
Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Underwater Drink, 1972 A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 60 x 40” / 152 x 101 cm - paper size Estate ...
Archival Pigment
Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Giacomo Montegazza Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. 40 x 30” / 101 x 76 cm - paper size Estate St...
Archival Pigment
Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Giacomo Montegazza Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped...
Archival Pigment
Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment
Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Underwater Drink A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Coll...
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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