Charter Ketch Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Charter Ketch Sixty eight foot charter ketch ‘Traveller II’ at anchor in the lee of Stocking Island, across the harbour from George Town, Exuma, 1960. 20 x 20" - paper size Est...
Archival Pigment, Color
USA Trianon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Its house and gardens are modelled on Le Petit Trianon at Versailles, 1960. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025...
Archival Pigment, Color
Acapulco Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Acapulco Pool Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
Archival Pigment, Color
Esther Williams Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Esther Williams Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a Florida swimming pool, 1955. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...
Archival Pigment, Color
Hello There Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hello There Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed, 1955. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Muffy Bancroft Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Muffy Bancroft Mrs Thomas Bancroft Jnr (Peggy Bancroft) in the foyer of her Manhattan duplex, circa 1958. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
Archival Pigment, Color
California Fashion Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
California Fashion A woman posing by an ornamental pond, wearing a sleeveless, two-piece outfit, San Diego, California, October 1956. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Colle...
Archival Pigment, Color
The Romanones Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Romanones Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones, and her family sitting in the garden of her home in Spain, 1976. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bermuda View Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda View View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club, 1957. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
Archival Pigment, Color
Paradise Island Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paradise Island Versailles Gardens and the French Cloister at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, opposite Nassau on the Bahamas, May 1968. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Blue Seas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Blue Seas Holidaymakers’ yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, August 1984. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
Archival Pigment, Color
Surfing Brothers Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930’s. 16×20 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to...
Archival Pigment, Color
Ocean Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ocean Club Versailles Gardens at the Ocean Club, Nassau with terraced steps leading from a swimming pool to a 14th century French cloisters, 1968. 16×20 inches - paper size Esta...
Archival Pigment, Color
Island Paradise Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Island Paradise August 1984: Topless swimmers on a rocky promontory of the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
Archival Pigment, Color
Lady Hamilton Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lady Hamilton 1955: Lady Hamilton rests in the shade of a tree, in the company of a Kenyan tribe. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Archival Pigment, Color
Porto Ercole Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
Archival Pigment, Color
Dimitris Kritsas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dimitris Kritsas Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, circa 1961. 20 x 20" - paper size ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Dolores Guinness Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Guinness German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 – 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, Sardinia, 1965. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
Archival Pigment, Color
The Fullers Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Fullers May 1970: Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL. 16×16 inches paper...
Archival Pigment, Color
George Cameron Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
George (Daphne) Cameron sits on a tiger pelt in the trophy room of Laddie Sanford’s Palm Beach house, 1959. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo...
Archival Pigment, Color
Jhelum River Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The boat is called the ‘HB Cutty Sark’. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regar...
Archival Pigment, Color
Oberon’s Lunch Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The star is second from the right facing the camera, 1966. 16×20 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 15...
Archival Pigment, Color
Yachting Trip Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Yachting Trip Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967 16×20 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
Archival Pigment, Color
Bettina Graziani Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bettina Graziani French fashion model Bettina Graziani wading in the shallow waters of Costa Smeralda, pulling a small yacht behind her, in Sardinia, Italy, 1964. 20 x 20" - pape...
Archival Pigment, Color
Scone Madam Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Scone Madam Afternoon tea round the pool on a cool day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills, 1960. 16×20 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collecti...
Archival Pigment, Color
Poolside Luncheon Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Luncheon Guests enjoying luncheon in a marquee by the pool at Mrs Reed Albee’s house, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. 16 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Pellicano Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pellicano Pool Guests around the pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Pebble Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pebble Beach Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stam...
Archival Pigment, Color
Carriage Awaits Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carriage Awaits Mrs Kenneth Appleton Ives with a horse and carriage outside her house in Bermuda, 1977. 16×16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Phot...
Archival Pigment, Color
Golfing Pals Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Golfing Pals 1977: At the 16th hole on Pebble Beach golf course, singer and film star Bing Crosby (in red) and A Thomas Taylor. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Capri Cruise Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Cruise Princess Laudomia Hercolani (in blue) and friends enjoy an on-deck siesta whilst cruising near Capri, July 1958. 20 x 24" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection E...
Archival Pigment, Color
Snowmass Picnic Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The village was opened in 1967. 16×16 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless o...
Archival Pigment, Color
Marbella Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella Club The swimming pool of the Marbella Club in Andalucia looks out over the sea, 1976 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sl...
Archival Pigment, Color
Capri Tan Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capri Tan 1968, A kneeling sunbather shows off her rings and pendant on a beach in Capri, Italy 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Archival Pigment, Color
Skiing Waitress Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Waitress Ski ‘bum’ Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slopes, carrying her skis on the way to a run, circa 1960. 16×16 inches - pap...
Archival Pigment, Color
Prize Trotter Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Prize Trotter Dunbar W Bostwick with his trotting horse and Dalmatian dog both named ‘Chris Spencer’ at Bostwick Farm, Shelburne, Vermont, circa 1960. 20 x 20" - paper size Est...
Archival Pigment, Color
Monte Carlo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monte Carlo A man and a woman on jet skis off the coast of Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1956 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Archival Pigment, Color
Model Friend Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Model Friend 1952: New York model, Jean Adams and friend share a drink on the beach at Acapulco 16 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sl...
Archival Pigment, Color
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Maggiore island. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons P...
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - NY Apartments - Oversize
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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Park Avenue - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Park Avenue A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City. 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 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) Ha...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Leonard Dalsemer Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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) Ha...
Color, Archival Pigment
Lady Hamilton Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16 / 40 x 40 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-number...
Color, Archival Pigment
Hotel Sports Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside Chez Holder
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Chez Holder Guests by the pool at Albin Holder’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, May 1970. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside Chez Holder
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Chez Holder Guests by the pool at Albin Holder’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, May 1970. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Alpine Skiing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Alpine Skiing Skiers waiting for the cable car at Verbier in Switzerland, 1964. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Vila Vera - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vila Vera The bar at the Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club in Acapulco, January 1968. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Archival Pigment
$5,700
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Tram Turntable - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tram Turntable A tram being manually rotated on a turntable in San Francisco, California, 1960. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - No Transport Problems
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
No Transport Problems Mrs Woolworth Donahue with car and bicycles on her motor yacht, ‘Hartline’ 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
Archival Pigment
$5,700
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Satin Seduction - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Satin Seduction Film star Diana Dors in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo b...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Von Oswald House
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. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Winter Suntans - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winter Suntans Young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside Chez Holder
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Chez Holder Guests by the pool at Albin Holder’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, May 1970. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Checkered Flag - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Checkered Flag The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Donald Leas - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Donald Leas Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stam...
Archival Pigment
Beauty Queen Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16 / 40 x 40 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Hand-number...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Sports - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Sli...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Lake Tahoe Ladies
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. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of photography on 1stDibs today.
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.
Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.
Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.