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 certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate A gondolier on the Grand Ca...
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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 certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate A gondolier on the Grand Ca...
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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 Aarons Venice Vacation Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estat...
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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 Aarons Venice Vacation Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estat...
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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 Aarons Venice Vacation Chromogenic Lambda print 1957, Printed Later Slim Aarons Estat...
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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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', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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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', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons Venice, Vintage Venice Gondolas, Vintage Sport, Italy, Vintage Pools, Canals, 50s Venice, Church of San Giorgio Mag...
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice Gondolas 1957 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate ...
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas'
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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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venice Gondolas 1957 (printed later) Chromogenic Lambda Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate ...
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Venice Gondolas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate.
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in ...
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A waiter serves fruit to bathers, including socialite, Louisa del Musso (kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aaron...
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A waiter serves fruit to bathers, including socialite, Louisa del Musso (kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aaron...
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
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.
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A waiter serves fruit to bathers, including socialite, Louisa del Musso (kneeling), at the Lido in Venice, Italy, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aaron...
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive ...
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch' Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman carrying her dog in a Gucci bag, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications p...
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch' Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman carrying her dog in a Gucci bag, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications p...
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive ...
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch' Venice
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman carrying her dog in a Gucci bag, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications p...
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1955 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino...
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1955 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino...
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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 Estate.
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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 Estate.
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Slim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ursula Pacelli 1957 (printed later) Chromogenic print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. Ursula Pac...
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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 edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate Septemb...
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Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch in Venice"
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman carrying her dog in a Gucci bag, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous w...
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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 edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Ciprian...
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 edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Ciprian...
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 edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Ciprian...
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 edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Ciprian...
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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, 1957.
Archival Pigment
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped 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.
Archival Pigment, Color
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped 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.
Archival Pigment, Color
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 of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: The ...
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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 of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: The ...
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View over Venice, Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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."
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate.
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 edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate Natal...
C Print
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 edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate Natal...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino 1957 C print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in ...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Gucci Pooch in Venice' Mid-century Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman carrying her dog in a Gucci bag, Venice, September, 1978. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous w...
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
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.
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Ursula Pacelli in Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ursula Pacelli 1957 (printed later) Chromogenic print Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate. Ursula Pac...
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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 edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate September ...
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Slim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim at Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attr...
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Venice Gondolier (Aarons Estate Edition)
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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Venice Gondolier (Aarons Estate Edition)
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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Slim Aarons 'Venetian Play, Orson Welles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venetian Play, 1952 Silver gelatin print Estate edition of 150 Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate ...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Venetian Play, Orson Welles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venetian Play, 1952 Silver gelatin print Estate edition of 150 Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate ...
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Natale Rusconi in Venice 1990 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March ...
C Print
View over Venice, Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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."
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Venice Gondolas Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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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 Estate.
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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 edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Ciprian...
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 edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Ciprian...
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 edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity The Andreas Kirche and Liebfrauen Kir...
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H 16 in W 20 in
Natale Rusconi, Venice, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Natale Rusconi riding a Hotel Cipriani motor launch with the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore on San Giorgio Maggiore island beyond, in Venice, Italy, in September 1978. Slim Aarons ...
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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 20" print.
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Venetian Play, Orson Welles
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Venetian Play, 1952 Silver gelatin print Estate edition of 150 Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity 1952: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) directing Othell...
Silver Gelatin
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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