Slim Aarons Estate Print - Skiers At Verbier - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers At Verbier Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Oberon's Lunch - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Circa 1966. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of p...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Chalet Costi - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 48" / 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) Hand-nu...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Brunch At Brennans Sunday brunch at Brennan’s restaurant, New Orleans. 20 x 20" / 51 x 51 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside In Arizona
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 / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960 Paper size 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Krone Lech Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960 Paper size 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Village
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village Two fashionably attired women stand in the foreground of a snowy landscape with a helicopter on the slopes of Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Porto Ercole Harbour
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Porto Ercole Yachts moored to a pontoon in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1980. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Il Canille
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Il Canille Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off the coast of the ...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Alice In Acapulco
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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Chalet Costi - Oversize
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) Hand...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Bahamas Speed Week
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bahamas Speed Week The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau, 1963. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Yachting Trip - Oversize
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) ...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - John Rawlings - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
John Rawlings Fashion photographer John Rawlings on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1950. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957. Printed 2022. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Gathering
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Gathering Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in A...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Oberon's Lunch - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Circa 1966. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of ...
Archival Pigment
$5,400
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. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Plantation Cocoyer 1981
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Carlton Hotel 1958
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carlton Hotel The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lake Tahoe Ladies 1959
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) H...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Katharine Hepburn 1953
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Katharine Hepburn American film star Katharine Hepburn driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica. 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size ...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside Backgammon 1972
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Yachting Trip - Oversize
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. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate St...
Archival Pigment
$4,200
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leonard Dalsemer - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Squaw Valley Snow - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Squaw Valley Snow Snow covers the deserted cafe in Squaw Valley, California, January 1961. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 P...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - John Rawlings - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 48" inches / 121 x 121 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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Chalet Costi - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 48 x 48" inches / 121 x 121 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
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Cannes Watersports - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Katharine Hepburn 1953
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) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 61 x 61 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76cm 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
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print - 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie'
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 Official Estate Print - Adriatic Riviera
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 24 x 20 inches / 61 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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Gathering
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Gathering Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in A...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Bahamas Signpost
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bahamas Signpost A signpost in Nassau points the way to Rum Cay, Andros, Abaco, Grand Bahama, Bimini, Eleuthera, Exuma and the Current, May 1964 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm pape...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Gathering
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Gathering Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in A...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Speedboat Landing - Oversize
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) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Speedboat Landing - Oversize
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) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 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) Ha...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 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) Ha...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print -Tennis Guests 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 20" inches / 40 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Cannon Drive 1952
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 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) Ha...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capri Hotel 1980
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 20" inches / 40 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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Tram Turntable - Oversize
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) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Casa Montefino 1977
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 20" inches / 40 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...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - David Bailey 1968
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 12" inches / 40 x 30 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Poolside Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Luxury Dining 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Poolside Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
$7,930
'Poolside Pairs' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Linsks are the current owners of the house. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) 72x48 inches / 183 x 122 cm paper size Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 pr...
Color, Archival Pigment
Eleuthera Pool Party - Slim Aarons - Bahamas - Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eleuthera Pool Party' by Slim Aarons LIMITED EDITION ESTATE STAMPED PRINT Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 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) ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$5,400
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print - Jamaica Sea Sailing - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40 inches / 102 x 102 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) H...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - All Mine - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A Palm Beach socialite, he acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan. 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed i...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - The Carlton Hotel - Oversize print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 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) ...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Klosters 1963 - Oversize
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) Ha...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lady Hamilton 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 41 x 41 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size) Ha...
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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