Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolier'
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Venice Gondolier 1957 C-Print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with
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1950s Modern Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the pier at the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the pier at the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the pier at the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giorgio Maggiore island. Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giorgio Maggiore island. Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas', Estate Edition
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
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resonate with the sophistication and culture of its time. Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Gondolas
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Maggiore island. Slim Aarons
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' Mid-century Modern Photography, 1957 (printed later)
$4,200
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Gondolas
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1970s Modern Color Photography
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Venice Gondolas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giorgio Maggiore island. Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
socialite, Louisa del Musso (kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
authenticity from the estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch' Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch' Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
authenticity from the estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch' Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1957
$3,600
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Slim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1957
$4,200
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Slim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice Lido, Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art
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Slim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Peggy Guggenheim in Venice 1978 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered
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1970s Modern Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch in Venice"
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed
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Slim Aarons, Natale Rusconi in Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Natale Rusconi in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Natale Rusconi in Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Natale Rusconi in Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered
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C Print
Slim AaronsVenice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print, 1957 (printed later)
$5,400
H 40 in W 40 in
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Venice Gondolas 1957 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Gondolas moored in Venice
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Slim AaronsVenice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print, 1957 (printed later)
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size
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Slim AaronsVenice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print, 1957 (printed later)
$3,600
H 20 in W 20 in
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
150 Photo by Slim Aarons Printed in 2025 Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography, 1957
$4,200
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Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Hotel Excelsior, Venice 1957 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography, 1957
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Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior, Venice' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Hotel Excelsior, Venice 1957 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition
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1950s Modern Color Photography
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Silver Gelatin
View over Venice, Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
top of St Mark's Basilica towards the islands of San Michele and Murano, 1973. Slim Aarons (1916-2006
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1970s Modern Color Photography
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C Print
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography, 1957
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
socialite, Louisa del Musso (kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Cipriani's Riva in Venice' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Signature stamped and numbered
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C Print
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Natale Rusconi onboard Cipriani's Riva in Venice', 1978
$5,400
H 40 in W 60 in
Slim Aarons 'Natale Rusconi onboard Cipriani's Riva in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Signature stamped and numbered
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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C Print
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography, 1957
$5,400
H 40 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch in Venice' Mid-century Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography, 1955
$5,400
H 40 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography, 1957
$3,150
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Slim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice Lido, Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim in Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography, 1978
$4,200
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Slim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim in Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Peggy Guggenheim in Venice 1978 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim at Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice', 1978
$3,900
H 20 in W 30 in
Slim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim at Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons
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1970s Realist Color Photography
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Lambda
Venice Gondolier (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society
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1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Venice Gondolier (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society
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1950s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venetian Play, Orson Welles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(1915 - 1985) directing Othello on location in Venice. Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Venetian Play, Orson Welles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
(1915 - 1985) directing Othello on location in Venice. Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Venetian Play, Orson Welles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
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View over Venice, Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
top of St Mark's Basilica towards the islands of San Michele and Murano, 1973. Slim Aarons (1916-2006
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1970s Modern Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giorgio Maggiore island. Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giorgio Maggiore island. Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1957
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Slim Aarons 'Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons
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1950s Realist Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Natale Rusconi in Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Natale Rusconi in Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1978 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Tyrolean Churches
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1990 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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C Print
Slim AaronsSunbathing in Venice, 1954 - Venetian Nude Sunbathing in Vintage Italian Fashion
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Sunbathing in Venice, 1954 - Venetian Nude Sunbathing in Vintage Italian Fashion
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Sunbathing in Venice, 1954 - Venetian Sunbathing in Vintage Italian Fashion by Slim Aarons 16 x
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Venetian Play, Orson Welles
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
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$4,000
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Stripper Performers, Vintage Print, Black and White Photograph, Signed, 11x14
By Leonard Freed
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Stripper Performers, Atlanta, 1996 by Leonard Freed is an 11" x 14" vintage print, stamped on verso (back of photo) with Freed's copyright stamp and signed (back of photo) and hand-p...
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$2,976
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By Ian Sanderson
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
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Slim Aarons, In Vogue Acapulco (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
In Vogue, 1966 Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate edition of 150 Vogue magazine editor Topsy Taylor, a visitor to Acapulco, circa 1966. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
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1960s Modern Color Photography
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Slim AaronsSlim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes 1976, 1976 (Printed later)
$5,400
H 40 in W 60 in
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes 1976
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Antibes Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. 60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
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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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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.
Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.
Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more.