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...
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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...
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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...
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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-...
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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-...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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$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...
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$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...
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'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...
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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...
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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 '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...
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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...
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'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...
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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...
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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...
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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) ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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 ...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 'The Butlers' Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Butlers' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print March 1971: Allan and Shirley Butler beside the pool at their home 'Jacaranda' in the Bahamas.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Cannes Watersports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...
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Verbier Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fashionable Skiers at Verbier, 1964. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo ...
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Verbier Vacation 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Vacation 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964 50 x 50" inches / 127 x 127 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Backgammon 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm pap...
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Snowmass Gathering 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Gathering 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village...
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Yachting Trip 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Yachting Trip 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967. 20 x 24" inches / 51...
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Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm pap...
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Quiet Afternoon 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Quiet Afternoon 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Brigitte Lapp Fonda reclines amidst the foliage in Marbella, circa 1980. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...
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Princess Ruspoli 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Princess Ruspoli 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Princess Lucy Ruspoli stands in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech am Arlberg, Austria, February 1979 20 x 16" inches ...
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Neldas Pool 1970- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann, and now owned by Nelda Linsk. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 pr...
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Esther Williams 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a Florida swimming pool. 30 x 30" inches / 76 ...
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Dapper Cricketers 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dapper Cricketers 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of cricketers in team uniform, Bermuda, 1957 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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Dal Lake 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dal Lake 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Dal Lake in Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1961. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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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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