$4,200
H 30 in W 40 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "El Venero" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Unframed (Premium Collection) Limited Edition Estate Stamped P...
Archival Pigment
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Desert House Party Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Desert House Party 1970 by Slim Aarons printed 2023 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J.
Archival Pigment
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Pop And Society Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society 1968 by Slim Aarons printed 2023 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (...
Archival Pigment
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
'Mara Lane At The Sands' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, Transportation, Road, Fashion, Landscapes & Seascapes, Travel, Far & Exotic, Beaches
Color, C Print
$5,460
H 30 in W 30 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Nice Pool" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nice Pool A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973. (Photo by Slim Aarons) ...
Archival Pigment
$3,000
H 20 in W 16 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Porto Ercole" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973. (Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment
$2,400
H 16 in W 12 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Speedboat Landing" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Speedboat Landing August 1973:A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy. (Photo by Slim A...
Archival Pigment
$3,900
H 20 in W 30 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Skiing Holiday" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Holiday American political novelist William F Buckley Jnr takes a break from skiing near Gstaad with Canadian-born economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977. (Photo by Slim Aar...
Archival Pigment
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Beverly Hills Hotel" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Unframed (Premium Collection) Limited Edition Estat...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
H 60 in W 40 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Squaw Valley Snow" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Squaw Valley Snow Snow covers the deserted cafe in Squaw Valley, California, January 1961. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Unframed (Premium Collection) Limited Edition Estate Stamped Prin...
Archival Pigment
$3,450
H 20 in W 16 in
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 by Slim Aarons printed 2024 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976 unframed c...
Archival Pigment
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The children are Bianca Juarez (Bobo’s daughter from another relationship) and Siobhan, Branwell and Saoirse McClory. 16" x 20" paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...
Archival Pigment
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
'Beverly Hills Hotel' (1952) Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, The Slim Aarons Prints Collection, High Society, Art, Artist, Photography, Vintage, Retro, Sport, Black and White, Photography
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$4,680
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc Limited Edition Print, Slim Aarons, 24x20 inches
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Unframed (Premium Collection) Limited Edition Estate St...
Archival Pigment
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Keep Your Cool" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Keep Your Cool Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Unframed (Premium Collect...
Archival Pigment
$7,930
H 72 in W 48 in D 0.1 in
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc Limited Edition Print, Slim Aarons, Oversize 72x48 inches
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Unframed (Premium Collection) Limited Edition Estate St...
C Print
$4,485
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.1 in
Slim Aarons "Sea Drive" Unframed Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The children are Bianca Juarez (Bobo’s daughter from another relationship) and Siobhan, Branwell and Saoirse McClory. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Unframed (Premium Collection) Limited E...
Archival Pigment
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pa...
Archival Pigment
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pa...
Archival Pigment
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pa...
Archival Pigment
'Roof Top Pool' Monte Carlo (Slim Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Our certified Archive Slim Aarons prints are produced as gloriously vivid C Prints, utilising the original transparencies housed at the Archive.
C Print
$3,600
H 20 in W 24 in
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957 by Slim Aarons printed 2023 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James St...
Silver Gelatin
'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons ESTATE ptrint
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
An exquisite LIMITED Edition Slim Aarons Estate Print. Gorgeous print measuring a large 20 x 16 inches / ca 51 x 41 cm's.
Archival Pigment
Menton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Menton A shop selling beach paraphernalia in Menton, in southeastern France, 1957 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Prin...
Archival Pigment, Color
Marina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina A large marina complex, circa 1960. 16×16 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (...
Archival Pigment, Color
Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taormina A swimming pool in Taormina, Sicily, 1975. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
Curling Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling Heinrich Dite and Leonie Heller play a variety of curling in Lech, Austria. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
Archival Pigment, Color
Nicholsons Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nicholsons Cafe Nicholson in New York, 1959. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Cavallo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cavallo Holidaymakers’ yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, 1984. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment, Color
Buzios Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Buzios' Holidaymakers in Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, January 1983. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 L...
Archival Pigment, Color
Megachess Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Megachess A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993. 16 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Prin...
Archival Pigment, Color
Portofino Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast, 1985. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Kloster Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Klosters Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Li...
Archival Pigment, Color
Positano Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Archival Pigment, Color
Sundowners Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sundowners Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Montecatini Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Montecatini Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Portofino Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino, circa 1955. 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...
Archival Pigment, Color
Positano Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano A little boy carries a basket of groceries home in Positano, 1958 16 × 16 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taormina The coastal town of Taormina in Sicily, Italy, March 1963. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Lim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Tiziana Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tiziana A topless Tiziana Audino enjoys a shower at the Hotel San Pietro in Positano, 1984. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lady Hamilton
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 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) H...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Conca dei Marini' Capri Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
An exquisite LIMITED Edition Slim Aarons Ctype Print. Gorgeous print measuring a very large 40 x 30 inches / ca 101 x 76 cm's.
C Print, Color
$4,200
H 30 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Megachess - 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) Ha...
Archival Pigment
$6,210
H 40 in W 60 in
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only in total (regardl...
Archival Pigment
$6,210
H 40 in W 60 in
Sea Drive Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print 1967
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Original Publication: A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons 60" x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pa...
Archival Pigment
'Conca dei Marini' Capri Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
An exquisite LIMITED Edition Slim Aarons Ctype Print. Gorgeous print measuring a very large 40 x 30 inches / ca 101 x 76 cm's.
C Print
$4,200
H 40 in W 30 in
'Count And Countess Jaime De Mora Y Aragon' Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
An exquisite LIMITED Edition Slim Aarons Estate Print. Gorgeous print measuring a very large 40 x 30 inches / ca 101 x 76 cm's.
Archival Pigment
$5,400
H 40 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Slim And Sphynx
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim and Sphynx Circa 1964: New York DJ Slim Hyatt at work in Shepheard's night club whose decor recreates a famous Cairo bar. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
H 40 in W 60 in
Poolside Party - Limited Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C print 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm unframed
C Print, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 24 in
'Slim Aarons' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Slim Aarons' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Photographer Slim Aarons (right) on board a yacht off Capri, Italy, September 1968.
Color, Archival Pigment
Capucine Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capucine 1957: French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 - 1990) fanning herself at a New Year's Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills. 20x24" paper size Estate S...
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
$5,700
H 48 in W 48 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz
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
Nirvana Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Old Acapulco can be seen across the bay. 1972. 16×20 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints onl...
Archival Pigment, Color
Socialites Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winston Guest) sitting with Joanne Connolly in Palm Beach, Florida. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Annevoie Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Annevoie Jean and Christiane de Montpellier d’Annevoie float across the moat of their home, Annevoie, Belgium, 1980. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Paraglider Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
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 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
Archival Pigment, Color
Pussyfooting Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pussyfooting Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot – a mixture of Jamaican fruit juices, 1958. 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Co...
Archival Pigment, Color
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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