Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke, 1980 Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri. 16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
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Verbier View 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier View Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964. 20x20” / 51 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
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Scone Madam 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Scone Madam, 1960 Afternoon tea round the pool on a cool day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills. 16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped...
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Verbier Vacation 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Vacation Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964. 20x20” / 51 x 51 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
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Verbier Skiers 1964 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Skiers Fashionable Skiers at Verbier, 1964. 16 x 16” / 41 x 41 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited...
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Snowmass Gathering 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Gathering, 1968 20x24” / 51 x 60 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless...
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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 ...
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Cannes Watersports 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 20x24” / 51 x 60 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
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Chalet Costi 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to...
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Yachting Trip 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Yachting Trip Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967. 20x30” / 51 x 76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Co...
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Leonard Dalsemer 1974 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Leonard Dalsemer Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 20x30” / 51 x 76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
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Poolside Backgammon 1972 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Backgammon Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. 20x24” / 51 x 60 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
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Hotel Excelsior 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
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Katharine Hepburn 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped 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. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm ...
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John Rawlings 1950 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
John Rawlings 1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 – 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 40x40” / 101 x 101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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Carlton Hotel 1958 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carlton Hotel The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
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Cortina dAmpezzo 1962 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina dAmpezzo Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA (Photo by Slim Aarons). 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970 (Photo by Slim Aarons) Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 24" inches / ca 50.8 x 60.9 cm’s paper size.
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El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain. 20x30” / 51 x 76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...
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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. 12 x 12” / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aar...
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Equestrian Entrance 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Equestrian Entrance 1957: Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy 60 x 60” / 152 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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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 ...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate edition - Beverly Hills Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estat...
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Slim Aarons - Fishing Boats - 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...
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Slim Aarons - Gstaad Station - 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...
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Slim Aarons - Verbier Vacation - 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...
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Slim Aarons - Palm Beach - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous print measuring an large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101x101" Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardl...
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'Acapulco Villa' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
From 'A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons' Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prin...
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Slim Aarons - Milan Cathedral - 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...
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Slim Aarons - Boca Raton - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous print measuring an large 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (re...
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$5,710
Slim Aarons 'Catherine Wilke' 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) Han...
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$4,200
'Verbier Vacation' Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation' Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964. 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sl...
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Slim Aarons 'La Barranca' 1971 Limited Estate Edition
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) Hand...
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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...
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$3,600
Slim Aarons 'Equestrian Entrance' Official Limited Estate Edition
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) Hand...
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Slim Aarons 'Penthouse Pool' Official Limited Estate Edition
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) Hand...
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'Porto Ercole' Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
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) Han...
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'Zermatt Skiing' (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...
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'Verbier View' (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...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
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 - Porto Ercole
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 - Poolside Bar
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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Satin Seduction 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regard...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - All Aboard
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 - Harbour Island
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 - All Aboard
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 - All Aboard
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 - Harbour Island
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 - Porto Ercole
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 - Zermatt Skiing
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 - Chalet Costi
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 - Eagle Club
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 - Gstaad Station
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 - Ice Bar
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 EstateEdition - Dolores Del Rio
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 - Esther Williams
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 - Julie London
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 - Freeport 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...
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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.
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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