Palace Hotel 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palace Hotel 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, 1961. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...
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Transport Buffs 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Transport Buffs 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A helicopter and two motor boats adorn the deck of a luxury yacht where Roy J Craven and Prince Pouilnac are chatting in Monte Carl...
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USA Trianon 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Its house and gardens are modelled on Le Petit Trianon at Versailles 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
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Tullio Abbate 1983 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tullio Abbate 1983 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Tullio Abbate, of Abbate Boats, at the back of yacht as it is moored at a property on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, in June 1983. ...
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Skiing Princess 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection...
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Scotti’s Yacht 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Scotti’s Yacht 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests on board Italian Count Hannibal Scotti’s yacht, ‘Scotland Cay’, Monte Carlo harbour, Monaco, August 1981. 20 x 16" inches / ...
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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. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm pap...
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Surfing Brothers 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930’s 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 20...
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The Romanones 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Romanones 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones, and her family sitting in the garden of her home in Spain. 10 x 10" inches / 25 x 25 cm paper...
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The Marlboroughs 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Marlboroughs 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 – 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds...
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Vila Vera 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vila Vera 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The bar at the Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club in Acapulco, January 1968. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamp...
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Skiing Holiday - 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Holiday - 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American political novelist William F Buckley Jnr takes a break from skiing near Gstaad with Canadian-born economist John Kenneth ...
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All Mine 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Palm Beach socialite, he acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan 10 x 10" inches / 25 x 25 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 20...
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Bettina Graziani 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bettina Graziani 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped French fashion model Bettina Graziani wading in the shallow waters of Costa Smeralda, pulling a small yacht behind her, in Sardini...
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Winter Suntans 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winter Suntans 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad. 1961. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
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Tram Turntable 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tram Turntable 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A tram being manually rotated on a turntable in San Francisco, California, 1960. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate...
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Alpine Skiing 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alpine Skiing 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers waiting for the cable car at Verbier in Switzerland, 1964. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Hotel Sports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection ...
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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. 40 x 40" inches / 102...
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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 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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Cavallo Coast 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cavallo Coast 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A fleet of yachts at anchor off the sunny Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate...
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Culinary Heights 1987 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Culinary Heights 1987 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of ‘Le Bateau Ivre’, Michel Rochedy (centre) of ‘Le Chabichou’, and Albert Parveaux ...
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Belvedere Pool 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Belvedere Pool 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The swimming pool at the Hotel Belvedere, Amalfi, Italy, August 1984. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Coll...
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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. 16 x 12" inches / 41 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
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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. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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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 from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 48 x 48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate ...
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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. 40 x 30" inches / 102 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
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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 10 x 12" inches / 25 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
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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. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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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. 10 x 10" inches / 25 x 25 cm paper s...
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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 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
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Bettina Graziani 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bettina Graziani 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Sta...
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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 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...
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Pebble Beach 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pebble Beach 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976. 16 ...
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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. 16 x 20" inches / 41...
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John Rawlings 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
John Rawlings 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 – 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Est...
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Slim Aarons - The Carlton Hotel - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Gorgeous print measuring a HUGE 40 x 40" inches / approx 100 x 100 cm's paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 ...
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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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Charter Ketch 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Charter Ketch 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Sixty eight foot charter ketch ‘Traveller II’ at anchor in the lee of Stocking Island, across the harbour from George Town, Exuma 40...
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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. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
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Britt Ekland 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Britt Ekland 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film star Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund) in Porto Ercole, Italy. 1969. 40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...
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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. 48 x 48" i...
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Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...
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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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Chalet Costi 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Chalet Costi 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. 48 x 48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
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Checkered Flag 1963- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Checkered Flag 1963- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate S...
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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 16 x 12" inches ...
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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. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm pa...
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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. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm pap...
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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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Luxury Dining 1955- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz 1949 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Diners in a grand ballroom during a fashion show, circa 1955. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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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 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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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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