'Porto Rotondo' 1990 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Bergese House' 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Elephant Walk' 1977 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Monte Carlo' 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Saint-Tropez' 1971 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Porto Ercole' 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Hugh Hefner' 1961 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Marina Piccola' 1954 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Cavallo Marina' 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Caracalla Therme' 1990 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Cortina d'Ampezzo 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Porto Ercole' 1969 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Eagle Club' 1969 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Playboy Party' 1961 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Les Sophores' 1977 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Smeralda Architect' 1978 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Marbella Birds' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Marbella Birds' A woman wearing a headscarf on a porch in Marbella, Spain, 1963 Paper size 72 x 48 inches / 183 x 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sl...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Andros Island' 1957 Slim Aarons Limited 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-num...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Belvedere Pool' 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-...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Social Call' 1972 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Positano Beach' 1979 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Poolside Drinks' 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Hugh Hefner' 1961 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Capri Cruise' 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...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Katharine Hepburn' 1953 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Katharine Hepburn' 1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 30x30 inches / 76 x 7...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Clifftop Pool' 1971 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-...
Color, Archival Pigment
Walking Up Cortina d'Ampezzo Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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 (Photo by Slim Aarons). Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches ...
Color, Archival Pigment
'All Aboard' 1975 Slim Aarons 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) Ha...
Color, Archival Pigment
'Habitation Leclerc' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
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) Ha...
Color, Archival Pigment
"New England Skiing" by Slim Aarons
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
'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.
Archival Pigment
'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.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Hotel De Paris In Monaco 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
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush 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
Dining At The Eagle Club 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
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Buckingham Palace - 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...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
'Missouri Hunt' 1955 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...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Dinner Jazz' 1949 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dinner Jazz' 1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 – 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Co...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
'Park Avenue' 1953 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Park Avenue' 1953: A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Sundowners
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Sundowners Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958 Gorgeous print measuring a HUGE 60 x 60" inches / ca 152 x 152...
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...
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...
Archival Pigment
$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...
Archival Pigment
$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...
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...
Archival Pigment
$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...
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.
Color, 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...
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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