Slim Aarons Art
American, 1916-2006
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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Period: 1950s
Artist: Slim Aarons
Venice Gondolier, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Premium Rates Apply. A gondolier on the Grand Canal in Venice, 1957.
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Nice Pool, Estate Edition, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step into the world of casual elegance and midcentury glamour with Slim Aarons' evocative photograph, "Nice Pool" This image offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the opulent life of Ame...
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Katherine Hepburn, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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Skiing in New Hampshire, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, circa 1955.
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Capri Cruise, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Laudomia Hercolani (in blue) and friends enjoy an on-deck siesta whilst cruising near Capri, July 1958.
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La Canzone Del Mare, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy, July 1958.
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Westin Excelsior, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957.
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New York Picnic, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Premium Rates Apply. A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline.
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New York Picnic, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Premium Rates Apply. A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline.
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New England Skiing, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955.
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Beverly Hills Hotel, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunshades and sun loungers by the swimming pool at The Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, 1957.
Beverly Hills Hotel
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Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
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Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition Esther Williams
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
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
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. He's also been credited with inspiring the sun-soaked, escapist style of top Instagram influencers.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday.”
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150).
Internal: Vintage Hollywood images, Million Dollar Mermaid, Esther Williams, Green Bathing Suit, Trampoline, Olympics, Vintage glamour, 1950s, '50s, vintage sport film and theater stars, vintage actress, vintage pinup
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Esther Williams in Florida, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams by the pool with friends in Florida, 1955
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Slim Aarons Relaxing at Lake Tahoe (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Relaxing at Lake Tahoe
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Slim Aarons 'Cannes Sports' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1958: Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
'Cannes Sports'
Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France
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Slim Aarons 'Swimmer and Sunbather, Tahoe' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and th...
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Slim Aarons 'Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at their home, the Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes, France, 1956, Printed Later...
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Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
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Carlton Hotel
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed later.
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
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 archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
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Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
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Mara Lane at the Sands
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Slim Aarons 'Ricasoli Ancestral Home' (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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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
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Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Westin Excelsior in Venice
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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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
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Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race
1955
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square...
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Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Patsy Pulitzer rummag...
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New York Picnic (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline, 1952.
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Slim Aarons 'Lake Tahoe Couple'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
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Palm Beach Street (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
C print
16 x 16 inches
Framed
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Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
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Slim Aarons 'Lido Life, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life, Venice
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A waiter serves fruit to...
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Hepburn and Friends (Slim Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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Hepburn and Friends
1955
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Belgian born actress...
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Caribe Hilton Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caribe Hilton Beach
1956 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees on the beach at the Caribe Hilton in S...
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Lily On The Riviera (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lily On The Riviera
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
French soprano Lily P...
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Model Friend (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Model Friend
1952 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
1952: New York model, Jean A...
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Alice Topping in Palm Beach (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Alice Topping
1959 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Socialite Alice Topping sit...
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Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Beauty and the Beast
1959
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a ti...
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Julie London (Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1957: Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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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
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1952: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) directing Othell...
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Slim Aarons 'Soho Waiters Race' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Soho Waiters Race, 1955
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual waiters' race from Soho Square to Greek Street, in London's Soho, 1955
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Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (...
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Pool at Lake Tahoe (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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Slim Aarons 'Having a Topping Time'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1959: Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
New England Skiing
1955 (printed later)
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Two women recline on improvised su...
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The Carlton Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
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Chantilly Racecourse in France (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Chantilly Racecourse in France, 1956
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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Esther Williams Poolside (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams, in a Florida swimming pool, 1955
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Park Avenue Party: New York, 1952
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
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Patsy Pulitzer relaxing by a pool in Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Signed by the photographer
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Howard Hughes 1955: At Howard Hawks' East-West Croquet Match
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate embossed
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Famed racer Gordon C. MacKenzie, Franconia, New Hampshire
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate embossed
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American contralto Marian Anderson filming The American Road television special
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Estate embossed
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C.Z. Guest
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The American socialite with a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida.
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To Any Lengths
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
To Any Lengths, 1954: Slim Aarons photographing Mara Lane from the top of an extending ladder by the swimming pool at Sands Hotel, Las Vegas.
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Park Avenue Party, New York
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Park Avenue Party, 1952: Slim Hawks, Diana Vreeland, and her husband Reed Vreeland at Kitty Miller's New Year's Eve party in her home on Park Avenue in Ne...
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- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025Slim Aarons is arguably the best-known photographer of the rich and famous, although many other photographers have also taken photos of celebrities. However, Aarons stands out for having captured the 20th century’s international jet set and creating images that are at once candid and polished. Some notable people he immortalized in his images include Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Princess Grace of Monaco, Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos and Mick Jagger. Find a variety of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025The famous photographer of Palm Springs was Slim Aarons. An American photographer, he captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Palm Beach and other luxurious settings around the globe. 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 selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025The famous photographer Slim is Slim Aarons. An American photographer, he 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. 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. Shop a collection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.