'Coming Ashore' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Coming Ashore' by Slim Aarons Gorgeous print measuring a large 20x24" inches / ca 51 x 61 cm's.
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'Coming Ashore' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Coming Ashore' by Slim Aarons Gorgeous print measuring a large 20x24" inches / ca 51 x 61 cm's.
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Blue Lagoon' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Blue Lagoon' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Andros Island' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Apres Ski
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...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Dolores Guinness
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...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Lake Tahoe
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...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Apres Ski
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...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Tram Turntable
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...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Waiting' Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Waiting' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A waiter by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970.
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Jackie K' 1968 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...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Chalet Costi' 1968 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Chalet Costi' Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Portofino' 1985 Official Limited Estate Edition, 1985 (printed later)
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'Portofino' 1985 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Portofino' 1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Courchevel' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition, 1970 (Printed Later)
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Courchevel' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Courchevel' A ski resort in Courchevel in the French Alps, circa 1970. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Megachess' 1993 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Megachess' A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Category
1990s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Paraglider' 1968 Official Limited Estate Edition, 1968 (printed later)
$3,900
Slim Aarons 'Paraglider' 1968 Official Limited Estate 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. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Beauty And The Beast' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40 / 102 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) Hand-numb...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Extra large oversize 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of...
Category
1950s Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Penthouse Pool 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Penthouse Pool Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. 40 x 40” / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aa...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess On Deck
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-...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation' Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964. 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sli...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Lounging in Bermuda
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-...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'La Barranca' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'La Barranca' Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis' villa in Acapulco, January 1971. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Col...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'George Hamilton' 1977 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'George Hamilton' American actor George Hamilton holidays in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1977. 40 x 30" / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Acapulco Villa' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Acapulco Villa' Las Brisas, the home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, January 1968. 72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Tram Turntable' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tram Turntable' A tram being manually rotated on a turntable in San Francisco, California, 1960. 40x40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Satin Seduction' Official Limited Estate Edition, 1955 (printed later)
$6,500
Slim Aarons 'Satin Seduction' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Satin Seduction' 1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin-covered bed. 60 x 60" inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stam...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'George Hamilton' Official Limited Estate Edition, 1977 (Printed Later)
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'George Hamilton' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'George Hamilton' American actor George Hamilton holidays in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1977. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 24" inches / ca 50.8 x 60.9 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Vila Vera' Official 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) Ha...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
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) Ha...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Sun Worship' 1981 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...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Harbour Island' 1970 Limited Estate Edition
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) H...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' 1973 Limited Estate Edition
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) Ha...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Promenade' 1961 Limited Estate Edition
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) ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Sardinian Holiday' 1967 Limited Estate Edition
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) Ha...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Conca dei Marini Limited Estate Edition
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) Ha...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Verbier View' Official Limited Estate Edition
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) H...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pebble Beach 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pebble Beach Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola, 1954 Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 30x20” / 76x51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition
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) Ha...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Verbier Skier 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Skier 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - The Carlton Hotel - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous print measuring a HUGE 40 x 40" inches / approx 100 x 100 cm's paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 ...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Snowmass Village 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March 1968. 30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Col...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Florida Palms 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Florida Palms A view of palm trees at a beach resort in Boca Raton, Florida, April 1978. 40x40” / 101x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sl...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Laguna Beach 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Faithful Couple 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Faithful Couple Singer Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones stand in front of a gilt framed portrait in Castletown Mansion, Eire, August 1968. 40x30” / 76x101 c...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Colourful Crew 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colourful Crew A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke, 1980 Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy. 40x30” / 76...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Capri Holiday 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Holiday Swimmers off the Italian island of Capri, 1958. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zermatt Skiing 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ocean Club 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ocean Club, 1968 Versailles Gardens at the Ocean Club, Nassau with terraced steps leading from a swimming pool to a 14th century French cloisters. 30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Giacomo Montegazza 1983 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. 30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stampe...
Category
1980s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hotel Sports 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports, 1958 Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...
Category
1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Speedboat Landing 1973 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Speedboat Landing, 1973 A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - p...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero, 1967 El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ocean Club 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
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 ...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Garden Party 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Garden Party, 1970 An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida. 16 x 16” / 41 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Category
1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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Slim Aarons Prints For Sale on 1stDibs
An assortment of slim aarons prints is available on 1stDibs. A selection of these works in the Modern, Contemporary and Minimalist styles can be found today in our inventory. These items have been made for many years, with versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Slim aarons prints available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes gray, black, blue, purple and more. Frequently made by artists working in digital print, lambda print and laser print, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large iterations of these items, so small slim aarons prints measuring 10 inches across are available.
How Much are Slim Aarons Prints?
Slim aarons prints can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $3,350, while the lowest priced sells for $265 and the highest can go for as much as $35,000.
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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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
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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.
Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.
Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.
Questions About Slim Aarons
- 1stDibs ExpertNovember 20, 2024Slim Aarons's real name was George Allen Aarons, and his nickname came from the fact that he was tall and slender. An American photographer, Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty and Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach. 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. Find a selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
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