Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20th century.
C Print
Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness, Sardinia
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool, 1959 C print 20 x 16 inches Estate edition of 150 Dolores Guinness, 1965: Catching the sun's last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked ...
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Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Paola Mussetti, 1982 Fiber print Paola Mussetti, a science student from Turin, poses in a bikini in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1982.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Paola Mussetti, 1982 Fiber print Paola Mussetti, a science student from Turin, poses in a bikini in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1982.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978. Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1958 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 15...
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'Dolores Guinness' Sardinia (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Archival Pigment
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm paper s...
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Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1978 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978 40 x 60" inches / 102 x 152 cm paper ...
Archival Pigment
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1978 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978.
Archival Pigment
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Color, Archival Pigment
$5,400
Slim Aarons 'Sunbather on Rock, Costa Smeralda Sardinia, Italy' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A sunbather on a rock by the seaside pool at Jacques Couelle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, August 1973. 40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 2...
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Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aa...
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Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aar...
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Dolores Guinness in Sardinia (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in the Costa Smerelda, Sardinia, 1965. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society pub...
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Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Sl...
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Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Sl...
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Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Sl...
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$1,800
Dolores Guinness, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, ...
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$3,000
Dolores Guinness, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, ...
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$3,600
Dolores Guinness, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, ...
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$2,400
Dolores Guinness, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, ...
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$1,800
Yachting Trip, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Selvaggia Borromeo wading ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in ...
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$2,400
Yachting Trip, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Selvaggia Borromeo wading ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in ...
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$3,000
Yachting Trip, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Selvaggia Borromeo wading ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in ...
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$3,900
Yachting Trip, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Selvaggia Borromeo wading ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in ...
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$3,600
Yachting Trip, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Selvaggia Borromeo wading ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in ...
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$4,200
Yachting Trip, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Selvaggia Borromeo wading ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in ...
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Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Yachts in Sardinia, Italy)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990.
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Bettina Graziani, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons French Fashion Model, Vintage European Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Boating, Vintage Holiday, 60s, Sardinia, ...
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Bettina Graziani, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 - 2015) adjusting the sail of a...
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Bettina Graziani, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 - 2015) adjusting the sail of a...
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Bettina Graziani, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 - 2015) adjusting the sail of a...
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$1,800
Monte Mano, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa...
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$3,000
Monte Mano, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa...
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$2,400
Monte Mano, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa...
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$3,600
Monte Mano, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa...
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Pool At Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Sardinia, Italy)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of a swimming pool in Rosarda, Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, August 1982.
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Pool At Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Sardinia, Italy)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of a swimming pool in Rosarda, Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, August 1982.
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Porto Rotondo, #1 Estate Edition (Yachts in Sardinia, Italy)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990.
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$1,800
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sheltering un...
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$3,000
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sheltering un...
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$2,400
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sheltering un...
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$3,600
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Waiting In The Shade, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sheltering un...
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$5,400
Monte Mano, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa...
Lambda
$3,900
Monte Mano, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa...
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$4,200
Monte Mano, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa...
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Bettina Graziani, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 - 2015) adjusting the sail of a...
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Bettina Graziani, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 - 2015) adjusting the sail of a...
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Pool at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, 1982 - Hotel Resort Coastal Island Sardinian
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Pool at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, 1982 - Hotel Resort Coastal Island Sardinian by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print.
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Cavallo Coast - View of Yachts in Turquoise Waters between Corsica and Sardinia
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Cavallo Coast - View of Yachts in Turquoise Waters between Corsica and Sardinia by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
$5,400
Bettina Graziani with a small yacht, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons French Fashion Model, Vintage European Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Boating, Vintage Holiday, 60s, Sardinia, ...
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Bettina Graziani, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
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Bettina Graziani, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
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Bettina Graziani, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaron...
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Waiting in the Shade, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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Waiting in the Shade, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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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.
Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.
The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.
Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.
Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.
In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.