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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Let’s Twirl 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Las Brisas Hotel 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film stars Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwarz) and his wife Janet Leigh (Jeanette Morrison) enjoying a dance at a Beverly Hills party he...
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McMartin Villa 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
McMartin Villa 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin’s villa in Bermuda, September 1977. 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper si...
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Portofino Villa 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino Villa 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel’s villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Portofino, Italy, August 1977. 20 x ...
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Princess Pia 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Princess Pia 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Princess Pia Ruspoli laying on a lounger by a swimming pool on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 ...
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Princess Bianca 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Princess Bianca 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg at her Gstaad chalet, 1985. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection...
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Skating Waiter 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skating Waiter 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A skating cocktail waiter at the Palace Hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estat...
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Saint-Tropez 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Cars and pedestrians on the busy seafront at Saint-Tropez, in southeastern France, September 1970. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper...
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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 Two young women, one wearing a kaftan, stepping onto a yacht on the waterfront at Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971. 30 x 20" inches ...
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Roca Llisa 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Roca Llisa 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Fosca, Vera and Fiona Bertran holidaying in Roca Llisa, on the island of Ibiza, Spain 1978 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Es...
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Riviera Crowd 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Riviera Crowd 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Holidaymakers enjoying lunch by a pool on the French Riviera, 1957. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
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Caracalla Therme 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Caracalla Therme 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman experiences the Caracalla Therme spa in Baden-Baden, September 1990. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Sta...
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Curacao Children 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curacao Children 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Three local children sitting on a low wall, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, January 1979 12 x 16" inches / 30 x 41 cm paper size ...
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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. 10 x 10" inches / 25 x 25 cm paper size Estat...
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Culinary Heights 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Culinary Heights 1978 - 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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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 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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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 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate S...
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Ice Bar 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ice Bar 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The ski resort of Courchevel, in the French Alps, 1979. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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The Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swimming pool, seen through the fronds of a palm tree, with two people swimming and a group of people sitting at tables at the poolside...
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Yacht Holiday 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Yacht Holiday 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marbella, 1967 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Col...
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Clifftop Pool 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Clifftop Pool 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis’ villa ‘La Barranca’, Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971. 20 x 24" inches / 5...
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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 walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size E...
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Villa Nirvana 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Villa Nirvana 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm pa...
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Vermont Winter 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vermont Winter 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Students from Stowe Preparatory School track through deep snow near Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak, Vermont, circa 1960 20 x 20" i...
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Vane’s Villa 1987 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vane’s Villa 1987 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition Guests at Vane Ivanovic’s villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Spain, 1987 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped C...
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Vail Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vail Skiers 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Skiers in Vail, Colorado, March 1964 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sli...
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Villa Nirvana 1972- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Villa Nirvana 1972- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm pap...
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Young Society 1964- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Most of them are wearing a gaily coloured Lilly Pulitzer shift, April 1964. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...
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Haiti Holiday 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Haiti Holiday 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman wearing a translucent white blouse and holding a cocktail stands in a swimming pool in Haiti, February 1981 40 x 30" inches ...
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Tropical Mustique 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tropical Mustique 1989 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1989 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61...
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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 A family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection...
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Marsha Gayle 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Marsha Gayle (right) and a friend relax on a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51...
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Ardizzone’s House 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ardizzone’s House 1985 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition Overlooking Ardizzone’s House, on the water’s edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size ...
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Beach Backgammon 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach Backgammon 1957 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Backgammon on the beach at the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, Italy, 1957 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate S...
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Bermuda Idyll 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Idyll 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Frank McMahon and guests around the pool at her seaside home in Bermuda, 1977 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate...
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Positano Beach 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano Beach 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979 40 x 60" inches / ...
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Positano Beach 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano Beach 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979 40 x 30" inches /...
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Positano Beach 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano Beach 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979 16 x 20" inches /...
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Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic 1953 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Christmas trees and red and white automobile light trails on Park Avenue, New York, at Christmas time, December 1953. 30 x 20" ...
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Harbour Island 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Handbags and hat shop at Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collectio...
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Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swedish model Olimpia Hruska, wearing a bikini, poses against a rock on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, 1964 20 x 20" inches...
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Kasimir Korybut 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kasimir Korybut 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Kasimir Korybut and Michelle Vaughan begin a raft ride up the White River in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 c...
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Abaco Holiday 1986 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Abaco Holiday 1986 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped College student Jan Woods relaxes in a hammock at the Abaco Inn on Elbow Cay, one of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, March 1986 30...
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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. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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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. 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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Bikini Society 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bikini Society 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped February 1972: From l to r; Christina Chambonne, Elinor Hill, Clare Davidson, Suzy Naggia, Carole Page gossiping by a swimming pool ...
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Blissful Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Blissful Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A swimming pool, seen through the fronds of a palm tree, with two people swimming and a group of people sitting at tables at the p...
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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. 16 x 20" inches / 41...
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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 1969, Swedish actress Britt Ekland in Porto Ercole, Italy. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
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Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...
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Acapulco Holiday 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Holiday 1966 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Deckchairs lined up beside a swimming pool in Acapulco, February 1966. 30 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped C...
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Ice Bar 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ice Bar 1979 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in the Austrian ski resort of Lech, February 1979. 24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped...
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Marbles Championship 1948 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbles Championship 1948 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City, 1948 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper si...
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Marbella Club 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella Club 1976 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain, 1976 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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Bikini Society 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bikini Society 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped February 1972: From l to r; Christina Chambonne, Elinor Hill, Clare Davidson, Suzy Naggia, Carole Page gossiping by a swimming pool ...
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Bikini Society 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bikini Society 1972 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped February 1972: From l to r; Christina Chambonne, Elinor Hill, Clare Davidson, Suzy Naggia, Carole Page gossiping by a swimming pool ...
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Bermuda Idyll 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Idyll 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Frank McMahon and guests around the pool at her seaside home in Bermuda, 1977 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate ...
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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?
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