$5,400
Tennis At Newport Casino Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped 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
$3,600
'Palm Springs Tennis Club' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited 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
Tennis In San Diego California 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' California 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, Octobe...
C Print
Palm Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oz Tennis Stars 1956 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Australian tennis players Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall at the Newport Tennis week in the early 1950’s.
Archival Pigment
Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons, Tennis, Jack and GeeGee Entz, Roses, Villa d'Este, Tivoli, Rome, Italy, Slim Aarons Sport Photography, Vintage Spo...
Lambda
Oz Tennis Stars
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hoad beat Rosewall in the men’s singles final at Wimbledon in 1956. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing attractive people doing attractive t...
Lambda
Tennis in the Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both before and after serving as a photographer for the US military magazine Yank during Wo...
Lambda
Il Pellicano Tennis, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archi...
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Il Pellicano Tennis, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archi...
Lambda
Oz Tennis Stars (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oz Tennis Stars (1956) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Australian tennis players Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall at the Newport Tennis week in the early 1950’s.
Color, Archival Pigment
Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October ...
Color, Archival Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957.
Color, Archival Pigment
Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 by Slim Aarons 16 x 16" print.
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
Lambda
Tennis in the Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both before and after serving as a photographer for the US military magazine Yank during Wo...
Lambda
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.