$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Marina Piccola Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 20...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 20 in W 16 in
Marisa Berenson Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marisa Berenson American actress Marisa Berenson sunbathing in Capri, 1968. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Andros Island Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas, 1957. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Lim...
Archival Pigment, Color
Linda Shaw Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Linda Shaw Linda Shaw emerges from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Las Brisas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Las Brisas A villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, February 1972. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited ...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Lillian Crawford Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lillian Crawford Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Laguna Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Saint-Tropez Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez The seafront at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats A fisherman in his boat at a Sicilian harbour, 1975. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limit...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Esther Williams Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 – 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 20 in W 16 in
Freeport Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Freeport Beach A beach in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Jamaican Jewel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jamaican Jewel The swimming pool at the Jamaican home of Philadelphia jeweller Douglas Cooper, March 1970. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 P...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Exuma Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Exuma Holiday A yachting holiday on Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1964. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Li...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 24 in
Elephant Walk Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Elephant Walk Guests around the pool at Elephant Walk, Duncan McMartin’s villa in Bermuda, September 1977 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Hotel Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Taormina The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Archival Pigment, Color
Julie London Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Julie London Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1957 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim...
Archival Pigment, Color
In Capri Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capri, circa 1958. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo b...
Archival Pigment, Color
Treasure Cay Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Treasure Cay Treasure Cay resort on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, March 1986 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 24 in
Yacht Holiday Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Yacht Holiday Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marbella, 1967. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons P...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Andros Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Andros Island A family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in...
Archival Pigment, Color
Vail Skiers Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vail Skiers Skiers in Vail, Colorado, March 1964. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints ...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 20 in W 16 in
Ardizzone’s House Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ardizzone’s House Overlooking Ardizzone’s House, on the water’s edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Phot...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Bermuda Style Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Style A swimming pool in the grounds of a house in Bermuda, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Beach Backgammon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beach Backgammon Backgammon on the beach at the Hotel Excelsior on the Venice Lido, Italy, 1957. 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Bermuda Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Beach A woman on a beach in Bermuda, 1957 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints ...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Sugarbush Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Skiing Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Print...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Bermuda Paradise Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Paradise Holidaymakers relaxing on a beach in Bermuda, 1967. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Li...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Acapulco Holiday Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Holiday Deckchairs lined up beside a swimming pool in Acapulco, February 1966. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons P...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Cannes Watersports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports Holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aa...
Archival Pigment, Color
Britt Ekland Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Britt Ekland Film star Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund) in Porto Ercole, Italy. 1969 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Marisa Berenson Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marisa Berenson American actress Marisa Berenson in Capri, 1968. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Minnie Cushing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Minnie Cushing American society girl Minnie Cushing carries her surfboard under her arm, September 1965. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Dapper Cricketers Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dapper Cricketers A group of cricketers in team uniform, Bermuda, 1957 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Monocled Miss Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monocled Miss Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment, Color
Dal Lake Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dal Lake Dal Lake in Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1961. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
Eagle Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eagle Club Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969. 16 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 20 in W 16 in
Freeport Yachts Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Freeport Yachts Yachts in a marina in Freeport, in the Bahamas, April 1969. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed ...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Fishing Boats Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fishing Boats Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico, 1952. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limi...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 20 in W 16 in
Verbier Skier Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Skier A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Westin Excelsior Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Westin Excelsior The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Acapulco Rocks Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Rocks A view of a rocky outcrop on the coast at, Acapulco, Mexico, 1950. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 24 in
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Zermatt Skiing Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limite...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 24 in W 20 in
Adriatic Sailors Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Adriatic Sailors Young holidaymakers from Milan enjoy a sail on the Adriatic, 1956 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printe...
Archival Pigment, Color
Palm Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1955. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Polo People Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo People Spectators and a competitor in a polo match, Argentina, December 1990. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pri...
Archival Pigment, Color
Polo Gear Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo Gear A group of polo players with their equipment, Argentina, December 1990. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Poolside Drinks Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Drinks Guests around the pool at Dorothy Laughlin’s Santa Barbara home, 1975. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
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$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Skiing Princess Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Princess Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria, 1968. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Porto Rotondo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Rotondo Pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aar...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Arts Festival Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Arts Festival The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 ...
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$3,000
H 16 in W 16 in
Alice Topping Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Topping Socialite Alice Topping by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Barbados Bliss Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, 1976 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaron...
Archival Pigment, Color
Laguna Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach A beachside garden in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 202...
Archival Pigment, Color
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Alice Topping Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alice Topping Socialite Alice Topping by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...
Archival Pigment, Color
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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