Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Gstaad
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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Dinner Jazz 1949 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 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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Peggy Guggenheim 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The palace houses her private art collection, including Picasso’s ‘On the Beach’, pictured to the left. 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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'A Colourful Crew' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 60 x 40 inches / 152 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...
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Snowmass Village 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Two fashionably attired women stand in the foreground of a snowy landscape with a helicopter on the slopes of Snowmass Village, in...
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Cortina dAmpezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina dAmpezzo 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Es...
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Carlton Hotel 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carlton Hotel 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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Jhelum River 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The boat is called the ‘HB Cutty Sark’. 20 x 20" inches / 51 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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Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc - Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 - Slim Aarons Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...
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Abaco Islander 1986 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, founding Hope Town. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim A...
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Katharine Hepburn 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Katharine Hepburn 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica...
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CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s House 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-fron...
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Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Italy, ...
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Carriage Awaits 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carriage Awaits 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Kenneth Appleton Ives with a horse and carriage outside her house in Bermuda, 1977. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size ...
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Bahamanian Hotel 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bahamanian Hotel 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A hotel on the coast at Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Early Riders 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Early Riders 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former mayor Frank Bogert leads an early-morning ride through Andreas Canyon in Palm Springs, southern California, January 1970. 30 x...
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Oberon’s Lunch 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Wonderful Time 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 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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Donald Leas 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Donald Leas 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. 30 x 30" inches / 76...
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Plantation Cocoyer 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Plantation Cocoyer 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size ...
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Hotel Olden 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Olden 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped People carry their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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Island Paradise 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Island Paradise 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Topless swimmers on a rocky promontory of the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size ...
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Dolores Guinness 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Guinness 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Dolores Guinness catches the sun’s last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
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Lady Hamilton 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lady Hamilton 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lady Hamilton rests in the shade of a tree, in the company of a Kenyan tribe. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Sta...
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Mazatlan Mansion 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mazatlan Mansion 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Eldorado, the Redo family villa in Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
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My Toy 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
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Hotel Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stampe...
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Gloria Schiff 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Gloria Schiff 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. 20 x 20" inches / 51...
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Giacomo Montegazza 1983 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Giacomo Montegazza 1983 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. 30 x 40" inch...
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Minnie Cushing 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Minnie Cushing 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American society girl Minnie Cushing carries her surfboard under her arm, September 1965. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size ...
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Polo People 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo People 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Spectators and a competitor in a polo match, Argentina, December 1990. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
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Mara Lane 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Austrian actress Mara Lane posing by the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, in a red and white striped bathing costume. 16 x 16" inches...
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Muffy Bancroft 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Muffy Bancroft 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Thomas Bancroft Jnr (Peggy Bancroft) in the foyer of her Manhattan duplex, circa 1958. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size ...
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Polo Gear 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo Gear 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of polo players with their equipment, Argentina, December 1990. 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
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Poolside Drinks 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Drinks 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests around the pool at Dorothy Laughlin’s Santa Barbara home. 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...
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Jackie K 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jackie K 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie Onassis) (1929 – 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy at an ‘April in Paris’ ball. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm ...
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Marisa Berenson 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marisa Berenson 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American actress Marisa Berenson in Capri, 1968. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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Poolside Party 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper...
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Ursula Andress 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ursula Andress 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swiss actress Ursula Andress poses in a hammock, in Rome, Italy, circa 1955. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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Palm Beach 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1955. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
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Peter Viertel 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Peter Viertel 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 – 2007) with his surfboard on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960. 20 x 20" inches / 51 ...
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Paradise Island 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paradise Island 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Versailles Gardens and the French Cloister at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, opposite Nassau on the Bahamas, May 1968. 40 x 60...
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Cecily Godfrey 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Her husband Gerald is Vice-President of the Court of Appeal in Hong Kong. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
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Catherine Wilke 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island o...
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Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Promenade 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A fashion show at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1961 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collec...
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Colourful Crew 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colourful Crew 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamp...
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Cotton Bay 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cotton Bay 1982 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Campbells’ pool at Cotton Bay, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, November 1982 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate S...
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Chantilly Racecourse 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Chantilly Racecourse 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Chantilly Racecourse in France, 1956. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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Celebrity Cruise 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Celebrity Cruise 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped British comedian Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) holidays with Princess Margaret (1930 – 2002, right) on the Aga Khan’s yacht on the C...
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Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The rear and headlights at nighttime give the appearance of lights on a giant Christmas tree, circa 1953 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
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CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
CZ’s Dogs 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 – 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vill...
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Dimitris Kritsas 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dimitris Kritsas 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, circ...
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Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of the yacht ‘Traveler II’, off the coast of Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1967. 2...
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Poolside Fashions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pape...
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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 A beachside garden in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
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Daniel Gainey 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Daniel Gainey 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm pa...
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Poolside Interruptions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper...
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Cushing Home 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cushing Home 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Members of the Cushing family outside their home, ‘The Ledges’ in Newport, June 1966. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 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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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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