Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The palace too originally belonged to King Otto, and was used as a summer home by the royal family, December 1961. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...
Archival Pigment
Eden Rock 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The house is now a hotel. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (re...
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Eden Rock 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The house is now a hotel. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (reg...
Archival Pigment
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped 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
Slim Aarons 'Bahamas Speed Week' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Bahamas Speed Week' The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau, 1963. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed ...
Archival Pigment
$4,200
'Laguna Beach Surfer' Slim Aarons 20th century color landscape photography
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
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 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
'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970.
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess On Deck
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size very large 72 x 48 inches / 188 x 122 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of pap...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited 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
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Chateau Saint-Martin
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 Relaxing in Lech
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-...
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Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Neo-Classical Pool
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 - Lounging In Verbier Limited 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
Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited 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
Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited 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
Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Winter Wear' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976.
Archival Pigment
$6,210
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eden-Roc Pool' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 15...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate edition - Beverly Hills Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel by Slim Aarons Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm pape...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Canoes Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Three young women are pictured in their red, turquoise, and white coloured canoes on Lake Tahoe in the sunshine. This print measures 30 x 30" / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamp...
Archival Pigment
Polo Party 1981 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Left to right: Adam Butler, Reutie Butler Shober, Jorie and Michael Butler Kent, Paul Butler and Geoffrey Kent. 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
Archival Pigment
Motorcycling Lord 1990 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The child in the centre is his daughter, Sophie. 16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited ...
Archival Pigment
Il Canille 1980 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Il Canille is the villa owned by Italian tailor and fashion designer Umberto Tirelli 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Archival Pigment
Merle Oberon 1958 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The sculptures were found at Coyoacan, and the pool and fountain were designed by Oberon herself. 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Archival Pigment
Pop And Society - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Host 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nelda Linsk is in yellow at far right. 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 pri...
Archival Pigment
Caped Skiers 1967- Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The skiers are wearing thin capes which attach to their wrists and billow out like sails as they ski 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Gaze 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Gaze 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita...
Archival Pigment
Daddy Bear 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The room contains stuffed animals and birds, including on the right a large Alaskan brown bear, all shot by members of the family, circa 1960. 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper siz...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Li...
Archival Pigment
Cabot Family 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cabot Family 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Mrs Henry Cabot Jnr with her children (left to right) Henry Bromfield Cabot III, Camilla Foote Cabot and Andrew Hull Cabot, sitting on...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Li...
Archival Pigment
Daddy Bear 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The room contains stuffed animals and birds, including on the right a large Alaskan brown bear, all shot by members of the family, circa 1960. 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm paper siz...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Gaze 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Gaze 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita...
Archival Pigment
Von Furstenburgs 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release fro...
Archival Pigment
Bohemian Barracks 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release fro...
Archival Pigment
Bohemian Barracks 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release fro...
Archival Pigment
Bohemian Barracks 1968 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release fro...
Archival Pigment
Von Furstenburgs 1977 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release fro...
Archival Pigment
Marbella Club ' 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...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Nice Pool' - 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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate edition - Beverly Hills Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel by Slim Aarons Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. 20 x 20 inches / 50 x 50 cm paper ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Jean Serpieri' 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
Christmas Swim 1954 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Two children play in the background. 60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Life In The Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) ...
Archival Pigment
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped 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
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped 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
Slim Aarons - Klosters - Estate Stamped
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
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'Skiers At Gstaad' 1969 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiers At Gstaad' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, 1969. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' 1988 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Cortina d'Ampezzo' 1988 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Snowboarding in Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1988. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Charter Ketch
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
(Photo by Slim Aarons) Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Archival Pigment
$3,900
Slim Aarons 'Von Oswald House' 1986 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Von Oswald House' A group of people relax in the garden at the house of Johanna Von Oswald, 1986. 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Lounging In Bermuda' 1969 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Bermuda' Jill Council relaxes with a drink by a swimming pool in Bermuda, 1969. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Arizona' 1973 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Arizona' Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Pantz Pool 1985 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper Size very large 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 p...
Archival Pigment
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Von Oswald House' 1986 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Von Oswald House' A group of people relax in the garden at the house of Johanna Von Oswald, 1986. 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 102 cm cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Arizona' 1973 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Arizona' Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
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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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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