Portofino 1985 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino, 1985 The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
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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...
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Paraglider 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paraglider Preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco a young blonde woman holds on firmly to her parachute harness. 1968 12x16” / 30 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection...
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Klosters 1963 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...
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Portofino 1985 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino 1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. 12x16” / 30 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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Portfino 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portfino 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
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Scone Madam - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside In Sotogrande 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Afternoon tea round the pool on a cool day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills. 40 x 60" in...
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Underwater Drink - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Underwater Drink 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 48 x 78" inches / ...
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Paraglider 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paraglider 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco a young blonde woman holds on firmly to her parachute harness. 1968 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76...
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Nicholsons 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nicholsons 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Cafe Nicholson in New York, 1959. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aa...
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Nirvana 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Old Acapulco can be seen across the bay. 1972. 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to...
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New York Picnic 1952 - Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York Picnic 1952 - Slim Aarons A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline. 1952 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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Cavallo 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cavallo 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers’ yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estat...
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Buzios 1983 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Buzios 1983 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers in Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, January 1983 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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Menton 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Menton 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A shop selling beach paraphernalia in Menton, in southeastern France, 1957 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Marina 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A large marina complex, circa 1960. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...
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Menton 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Menton 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A shop selling beach paraphernalia in Menton, in southeastern France, 1957 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Positano 1958- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano 1958- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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Courchevel 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Courchevel 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The ski resort of Courchevel, in the French Alps, 1979 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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Sundowners 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sundowners 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate...
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Taormina 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taormina 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition A swimming pool in Taormina, Sicily, 1975. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - 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...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cortina d'Ampezzo
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowboarding in Cortina d’Ampezzo, March 1988 Print measuring 20 x 30 inches / 50 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limit...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Spear Fishing In San Diego 1956
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. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper s...
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'Fan Mail' 1955- Slim Aarons Official Limited Edition Estate Print Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 48 / 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) Hand-num...
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Slim Aarons 'Clifftop Pool' Limited Estate Edition
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) Hand...
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Slim Aarons 'Acapulco Villa' Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 102 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Han...
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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 ...
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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. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate St...
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pop And Society 1968 - 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 painti...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
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...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Jhelum River 1961 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 30" inches / 51 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...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Jhelum River 1961 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 30" inches / 51 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...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
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...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
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...
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pop And Society 1968 - 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) ...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
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...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Anchorage Hotel
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) ...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
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...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
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...
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'Megachess' 1993 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...
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'Mustique' 1973 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...
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'Bouldereign' 1973 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...
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'Portofino' 1985 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...
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'Courchevel' 1970 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...
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'Taormina' 1963 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...
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'Pussyfooting' 1958 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...
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'Buzios' 1983 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...
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Poolside Reflections 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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...
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'Cavallo' 1984 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...
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'Taormina' 1975 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...
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Slim Aarons - John Rawlings 1950 - 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...
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Slim Aarons - Milan Cathedral 1960 - 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...
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Slim Aarons - Fishing Boats 1952 - 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...
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Slim Aarons - Gstaad Station 1961 - 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...
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'Tiziana' 1984 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...
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'Courchevel' 1970 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...
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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.
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