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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California Fashion 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
California Fashion 1956 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman posing by an ornamental pond, wearing a sleeveless, two-piece outfit, San Diego, California, October 1956. 16 x 16" inc...
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Caleta Beach 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Hotel Boca Chica can be seen to the right. 16 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to...
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Family Chair 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Family Chair 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Elizabeth Matthews, descendant of H M Flagler co-founder of Palm Beach, sits in her great-grandfather’s favourite chair in front of th...
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Boca Raton 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boca Raton 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swimming pool in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, circa 1978 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
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Californian Party 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Californian Party 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) socialising at a party in San Francisco, circa 1955 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 ...
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Boy Baron 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boy Baron 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The youngest peer in England, seven year old Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron and 10th Baronet Hesketh, fishing in the lake at ...
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Fruit Cocktail 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fruit Cocktail 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Charles Rogers sits on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa & Racquet Club pool, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961. 60 x 40...
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Saint-Tropez 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The seafront at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collectio...
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Golfing Pals 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Golfing Pals 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped At the 16th hole on Pebble Beach golf course, singer and film star Bing Crosby (in red) and A Thomas Taylor. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x...
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Florida Palms 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Florida Palms 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A view of palm trees at a beach resort in Boca Raton, Florida, April 1978. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped ...
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Henley Regatta 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Henley Regatta 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Free mooring at the Angel Hotel at Henley-on-Thames on the River Thames, during the Henley Regatta, 1955. 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51...
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Guinness Family 1963- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Their mother is Princess Marie Gabrielle von Urach, circa 1963 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
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Freeport Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Freeport Beach 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A beach in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
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Poolside Dreams 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann circa 1970. 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 (regardle...
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Goodman’s Pool 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Goodman and his wife, Palm Beach, Florida, 1985. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited ...
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Esther Williams 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Col...
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Faithful Couple 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Faithful Couple 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Singer Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones stand in front of a gilt framed portrait in Castletown Mansion, Eir...
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Fan Mail 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fan Mail 1952 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt J...
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Eva Gabor 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eva Gabor 1950 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped TV and film actress Eva Gabor takes a coffee in an unfinished bedroom in Bay Roc Hotel, Montego, Jamaica, 1950. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 5...
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Exuma Holiday 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Exuma Holiday 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A yachting holiday on Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1964. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
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Elephant Walk 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Elephant Walk 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin’s villa in Bermuda, September 1977. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper siz...
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Bermuda Style 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Style 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A swimming pool in the grounds of a house in Bermuda, 1957. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
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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 (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 – 2015) adjusting the sail of a boat, Costa Smeralda, Sardini...
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Bermuda View 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda View 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club, 1957 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 ...
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Dolores Guinness 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Guinness 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 – 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, Sardinia, 1965. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x...
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Don Giovanni 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Don Giovanni 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Don Giovanni, the son of Prince Aldobrandini rides his favourite Shetland pony in the grounds of the family’s ancestral home in Frasca...
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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 American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 – 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm pape...
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Blue Seas 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Blue Seas 1984 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers’ yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, August 1984. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm pap...
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Biarritz Seafront 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Biarritz Seafront 1962 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The beach and seafront at Biarritz, France, 1960. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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Fishing Boats 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats 1975 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A fisherman in his boat at a Sicilian harbour, 1975. 20 x 16" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
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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. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm pa...
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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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Poolside Fashions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann. 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 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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Capri Tan 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Tan 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped 1968, A kneeling sunbather shows off her rings and pendant on a beach in Capri, Italy. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size Estate ...
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Bermuda Paradise 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Paradise 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers relaxing on a beach in Bermuda, 1967. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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Capri Cruise 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Cruise 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Princess Laudomia Hercolani (in blue) and friends enjoy an on-deck siesta whilst cruising near Capri, July 1958. 20 x 24" inches / 51...
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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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Poolside Interruptions 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann. 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 prints only (regardless of paper...
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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. 3...
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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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Man’s Work 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
He founded adult magazines, Playboy, VIp and Oui 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited ...
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Meridian Club 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Meridian Club 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The pool at the Meridian Club, owned by Ginny and Bill Cowles, on the Turks and Caicos Islands, March 1981. 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 5...
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Portofino, Italy 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino, Italy 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests relax on the terrace at the villa of Umberto and Pucci Nordio, Portofino, 1985. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size ...
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Lillian Crawford 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lillian Crawford 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Sta...
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Andros Island 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Andros Island 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas, 1957. 50 x 50" inches / 127 x 127 cm paper size ...
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Les Sophores 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Les Sophores 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Janine Bril in the garden of Les Sophores, her villa in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1977. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 c...
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Linda Shaw 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Linda Shaw 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Linda Shaw emerges from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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Lyford Cay 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lyford Cay 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lord and Lady Martonmere in the garden of the Villa El Mirador, their Lyford Cay home, April 1974 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper s...
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Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
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Let’s Dance 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Let’s Dance 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film stars Tony Curtis and his wife Janet Leigh enjoying a dance at a party held at James Mason’s home in Beverly Hills, 1954 24 x 20"...
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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 sunbathing in Capri, 1968 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
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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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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.
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