Slim Aarons Estate Print - Megachess 1993 - Oversize
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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Portofino 1985 - Oversize
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 Estate Print - Carlton Hotel 1958
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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Plantation Cocoyer 1981
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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Sugarbush Skiing 1960
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 10 x 12" inches / 25 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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Katharine Hepburn 1953
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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior 1957
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
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Catherine Wilke 1980
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 16 x12" 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) Han...
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Catherine Wilke - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Paper size 30 x20" 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
$5,400
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Patsy Pulitzer 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 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
Saks Fifth Avenue Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Large oversize 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 of p...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Newport Tennis Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Large oversize 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 of p...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Finding a Spot Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Finding a Spot A man contemplates the sunbathers by a swimming pool in Capri, Italy, August 1973. 20 × 16 inches - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by...
Archival Pigment, Color
J. Gordon Douglas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
J Gordon Douglas in the formal gardens of their residence, Santa Barbara, California, USA, circa 1970. 20 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by S...
Archival Pigment, Color
C. Z. Guest Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Guest, 1920 – 2003) with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida, 1955. 24 x 20" - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
Archival Pigment, Color
Rhode Island Surfers Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Rhode Island Surfers Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print Surfers off Rhode Island, September 1965.
Color, Archival Pigment
Poolside In Kenya Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside In Kenya Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print A woman sits at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
Color, Archival Pigment
Marbella House Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella House Party Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain, August 1967. 60x40 inches paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Pho...
Color, Archival Pigment
$5,700
Slim Aarons Official 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 b...
Archival Pigment
Casa De Camp Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Crespi And Mastroianni Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sunbathing On Capri Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Harbour Isle Beach Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Party In Bermuda Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiers At Sugarbush Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Porto Ercole Harbour Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Aerial Miami Beach Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Ocho Rios, Jamaica Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Skier In Vermont Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Saint-Tropez Swimmer Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Tres Vidas, Acapulco Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Snorkelling In Malta Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Aerial Miami Beach Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Conca dei Marini Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Marie-Louise Scio Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Conca dei Marini Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sarah Marson Williams Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Saint-Tropez Seafront Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Marbella House Party Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing In Vail Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Fort Lauderdale Beach Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing In Seefeld Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing In Vail Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Holidaymakers In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
The Costa-Delords Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Monte Carlo Pool Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Arturo Pani's Villa Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Burgenstock Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Cranmore Mountain Skiers Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Black Tie Evening Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Leisure In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Villa D'Este Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Palm Springs Pool Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Motorboats In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Drinks At Gstaad Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Chateau Saint-Martin Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Eden Roc Hotel Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Antibes Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
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...
Color, 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.
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