Lake Tahoe Ladies 1959 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Ladies A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Archival Pigment
Palm Beach Street 1953 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953. 60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
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Squaw Valley Snow 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Squaw Valley Snow Snow covers the deserted cafe in Squaw Valley, California, January 1961. 40x60” / 101 x 152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
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Beverly Hills Hotel 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. 60 x 60” / 152 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Leonard Dalsemer Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Roca Llisa
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
$6,100
Slim Aarons 'Porto Rotondo' 1990 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Archival Pigment
$3,900
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Arizona' 1973 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 51 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Han...
Archival Pigment
Desert Party Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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...
Archival Pigment, Color
Saint Tropez Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Desert Party Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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...
Archival Pigment, Color
$5,700
Slim Aarons 'John Rawlings' 1950 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 X 48 inches / 122 X 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
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Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll' 1955 Official Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Idyll' A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA Paper size 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sli...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'Checkered Flag' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Checkered Flag' The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Tiziana' 1984 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tiziana' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A topless Tiziana Audino enjoys a shower at the Hotel San Pietro in Positano, 1984. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper si...
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Slim Aarons 'Hotel Du Cap' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Han...
Archival Pigment
$3,000
Slim Aarons 'Bergese House' 1967 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 16 inches / 51 x 41cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Tiziana' 1984 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tiziana' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A topless Tiziana Audino enjoys a shower at the Hotel San Pietro in Positano, 1984. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper siz...
Archival Pigment
$3,600
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing' 1955 Official Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'New England Skiing' Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 Paper size 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Archival Pigment
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Verbier View' 1964 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Han...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'George Hamilton' 1977 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'George Hamilton' American actor George Hamilton holidays in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1977. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collect...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'Verbier View' 1964 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier View' Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'Acapulco Villa' 1968 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Acapulco Villa' Las Brisas, the home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, January 1968. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment
$3,900
Slim Aarons 'Catherine Wilke' 1980 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 50 x 76 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Han...
Archival Pigment
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Italy 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) H...
Archival Pigment
$4,899
'North Conway Sleigh' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Italy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 72 x 48 inches / 183 x 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Archival Pigment
Hotel Taormina Pool' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
$4,899
'Molly Wilmot's Pool' 1982 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Welles In Biarritz' 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Cortina d'Ampezzo' 1962 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Lunch At Merle's' 1966 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'The High Life' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Keep Your Cool' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Finding A Spot' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Caroline And Pet' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Boating In Antigua' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Adolfo De Velasco' 1988 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Hotel Camino Real' 1979 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Chosing A Top' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'A Friendly Chat' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
'Skiing In Vermont' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
$4,899
'La Concha Clientele' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess on Deck
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-...
Archival Pigment
Brunch At Brennans 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Wonderful Time 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless o...
Archival Pigment
Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A boucherie or butcher’s shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971. 30 x 40" inches /...
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Lounging In Bermuda 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lounging In Bermuda 1969 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman relaxes with a drink by a swimming pool in Bermuda, November 1969. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate S...
Archival Pigment
Eton-Harrow Match 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eton-Harrow Match 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lord’s achieves its sartorial and social pinnacle for a school event – the annual Eton-Harrow Match 10 x 10" inches / 25 x 25 cm...
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J. Gordon Douglas 1978- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
J. Gordon Douglas 1978- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mr. and Mrs. J Gordon Douglas in the formal gardens of their residence, Santa Barbara, California, USA, circa 1970. 16 x 16" inch...
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Killer Joe Piro 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Killer Joe Piro 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped American dance instructor ‘Killer’ Joe Piro (1921 – 1989) dances past the park in New York, July 1964. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 c...
Archival Pigment
Rhode Island Surfers 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Rhode Island Surfers 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Surfers off Rhode Island, September 1965. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
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Rhode Island Surfers 1965 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo People 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Surfers off Rhode Island, September 1965. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 61 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo b...
Archival Pigment
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped The Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel on the Pointe de la Vieille in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France, August 1981. 16 x 12"...
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Joan Collins Relaxes 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Joan Collins Relaxes 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stam...
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Monte Carlo Swimwear 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monte Carlo Swimwear 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A woman in a cutaway swimsuit in Monte Carlo, August 1970 40 x 30" inches / 102 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collectio...
Archival Pigment
Peter and Britt 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Peter and Britt 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Sharing a lilo, film stars Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980) and his wife Britt Ekland spend their holiday on the Costa Smeralda, circa 1...
Archival Pigment
Party at Romanoff’s 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Party at Romanoff’s 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped A party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959 16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection ...
Archival Pigment
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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