'Giacomo Montegazza' 1983 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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'Adriatic Sailors' 1956 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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'Bermuda Idyll' 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...
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'Monte Carlo' 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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'George Hamilton' 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...
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'Poolside Backgammon' 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...
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'Riviera Crowd' 1957 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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'French Holiday' 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...
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'Polo Match' 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...
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'Blue Seas' 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...
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'Saint-Tropez' 1970 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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'Castel Bonifacio' 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...
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'Laguna Beach' 1970 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Freeport Yachts 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Freeport Yachts 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Yachts in a marina in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
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Hello There 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hello There 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper s...
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Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
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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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La Coquille 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Coquille 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped An aerial view of Palm Beach, Florida, 1955, showing La Coquille Hotel and its swimming pool. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size...
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Jamaican Jewel 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jamaican Jewel 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The swimming pool at the Jamaican home of Philadelphia jeweller Douglas Cooper, March 1970 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size ...
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Julie London 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Julie London 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1957. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Esta...
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In Capri 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capri, circa 1958 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Esta...
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La Barranca 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Barranca 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 – 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis’ villa in Acapulco, January 1971 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm pa...
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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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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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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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Monocled Miss 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monocled Miss 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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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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Family Pool 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Family Pool 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. 40 x 40" i...
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Eagle Club 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eagle Club 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
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Family Snapper 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill, Jamaica 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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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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Porto Rotondo 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Rotondo 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
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Sailing Dinghy 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sailing Dinghy 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A boy and two girls lifting a sailing dinghy off its trailer, San Diego, California, October 1956. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm pap...
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Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
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Las Brisas 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Las Brisas 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, February 1972. 40 x 30" inches / 102 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 P...
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Laguna Bowls 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Members and guests have to observe a strict dress code. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
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Monte Mano 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monte Mano 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Coulle’s home ‘Monte Mano’, on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, August 197...
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Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Pool 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests around the pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size ...
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Pantz Pool 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pantz Pool 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz’ Marbella home, September 1985 20 x 24" inc...
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Pink Accessory 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pink Accessory 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle, circa 1955. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper s...
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Pellicano Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Boats at a jetty by the beach at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper ...
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La Fonteline 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Fonteline 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Aerial view of sunbathers and parasols at La Fonteline beach, at the base of the Faraglioni rocks on the island of Capri, Italy, in Se...
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Laguna Bowls 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Members and guests have to observe a strict dress code. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
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Laguna Beach 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
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La Barranca 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Barranca 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 – 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis’ villa in Acapulco, January 1971 40 x 30" inches / 102 x 76 cm pap...
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La Coquille 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Coquille 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped An aerial view of Palm Beach, Florida, 1955, showing La Coquille Hotel and its swimming pool. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size...
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La Fonteline 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Fonteline 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Aerial view of sunbathers and parasols at La Fonteline beach, at the base of the Faraglioni rocks on the island of Capri, Italy, in Se...
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Laguna Beach 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
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Jamaican Jewel 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jamaican Jewel 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The swimming pool at the Jamaican home of Philadelphia jeweller Douglas Cooper, March 1970 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size ...
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In Capri 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capri, circa 1958 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Esta...
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Zermatt Skiing 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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Acapulco Rocks 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Rocks 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A view of a rocky outcrop on the coast at, Acapulco, Mexico, 1950. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
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Adriatic Sailors 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Adriatic Sailors 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Young holidaymakers from Milan enjoy a sail on the Adriatic, 1956. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
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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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