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Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...

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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."

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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...

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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Swimming In Spain 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Swimming In Spain 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

Swimming In Spain 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Swimming In Spain 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Swimming and snorkelling in the bay at the Hostal De La Gavina, in S’agaro, Costa Brava, Spain, July 1970. 30 x 20" inches / 61...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Swimming In Spain Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Swimming In Spain Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Swimming In Spain 1970 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Swimming and snorkelling in the bay at the Hostal De La Gavina, in S’agaro, Costa Brava, Spain, July 1970 ...

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1970s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

'Marbella House Party' Spain  (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
'Marbella House Party' Spain  (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

'Marbella House Party' Spain (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.

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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons Yacht Holiday (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons Yacht Holiday (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons Yacht Holiday (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.

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1960s Realist Nude Photography

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Lambda

Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped

Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Dali And Gala (1955) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) enjoying a cup of coffee with his wife Gala (1894 – 1982) on a terra...

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1950s Modern Portrait Photography

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Black and White, Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'El Venero'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing attractive people do...

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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, El Venero

Slim Aarons, El Venero

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...

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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons, Vane's Villa
Slim Aarons, Vane's Villa

Slim Aarons, Vane's Villa

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Hotel
Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Hotel

Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Hotel

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'

Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'

Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'

Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Hotel'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

El Venero, Marbella, Spain (Aarons Estate Edition)

El Venero, Marbella, Spain (Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

El Venero, Marbella, Spain

El Venero, Marbella, Spain

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...

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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)

Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a newly available vintage scene of the swimming pool of the Marbella Club, in Andalucia, Spain, looking out over ...

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1970s Realist Landscape Photography

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Lambda

Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)
Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)

Marbella Club, Estate Edition (Andalucia, Spain)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a newly available vintage scene of the swimming pool of the Marbella Club, in Andalucia, Spain, looking out over ...

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1970s Realist Landscape Photography

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Lambda

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Slim Aarons, Marbella Club, Andalucia 1976, Spain,  c-print photo Hulton Archive
Slim Aarons, Marbella Club, Andalucia 1976, Spain,  c-print photo Hulton Archive

Slim Aarons, Marbella Club, Andalucia 1976, Spain, c-print photo Hulton Archive

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

The swimming pool of the Marbella Club in Andalucia looks out over the sea, 1976. This photograph is from the Estate Limited Edition of 150 30x30” C-print, from the original transpa...

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1950s Contemporary Color Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Hotel
Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Hotel

Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Hotel

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons Vane's Villa, 1987 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests at Vane Ivanovic's villa in Cap de Formentor, Majorca, Sp...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

'Marbella House Party' Spain  (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
'Marbella House Party' Spain  (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

'Marbella House Party' Spain (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

'Marbella House Party' Spain (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain, August 1967.

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1960s Modern Figurative Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons 'Yacht Holiday' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons 'Yacht Holiday' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons 'Yacht Holiday' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons Marbella, Vintage Ocean Glamour, Vintage Sport, Yachting, Vintage Holiday, 60s, vintage glamour, vintage summer Ma...

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1960s Realist Nude Photography

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Lambda

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By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

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By Slim Aarons

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By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

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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.

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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. 

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.

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Questions About Slim Aarons

  • 1stDibs ExpertNovember 20, 2024
    Slim Aarons's real name was George Allen Aarons, and his nickname came from the fact that he was tall and slender. An American photographer, Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty and Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach. 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. Find a selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.