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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Slim Aarons 'Yachting Trip' 1967 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Yachting Trip'
Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967.
30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
Estate S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Harriet at Mougins' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Harriet at Mougins'
1957: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere at Mougins, near Cannes in France.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
P...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Kaufmann Desert House' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Kaufmann Desert House'
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann and at the time, o...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Klosters' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Klosters'
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963.
30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
P...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
'Great Harbour Cay' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Great Harbour Cay'
A horseshoe beach on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Freeport Yachts Bahamas (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Freeport Yachts
1969 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Yachts in...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
'Treasure Cay' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Treasure Cay' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Treasure Cay resort on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, March 1986.
Produced from the original transparency
Certifi...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print, Color
Modelling for Saks Fifth Avenue - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Photographic Paper, Digital, Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boul...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Fullers'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
May 1970: Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL
Estate stamped and hand numbered ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Monocled Miss (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, The High Life (Mid-century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat with friends Ruth Luthi, Sabine Korte and Mike Belami, during a stay in St Tropez. September 1968.
Slim Aarons
The High Life...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
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.
Estate stamped and hand numbere...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
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.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Palm Beach Idyll, 1955
C-print
30 x 30 inches
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photograp...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Sunbathing in Capri, 1974 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Slim Aarons Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke,
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Printed Later.
Cath...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim' (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, on a lilo in a swimming pool decorated for Christmas, Hollywood, 1954. The Hollywood sign can be seen in the distance.
Estate stamped...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Pool at Lake Tahoe - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Friendship'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Desert House Party
1970 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Athens (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool, 1961
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Young women by the Canellopoulos pentho...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Hotel Camino Real - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico.
This is...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Ardissones House - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Landscape C-Type Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print, Color, Digital
Athina Livanos Onassis (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
First wife of Greek ship owner Aristotle Onassis, Athina Livanos Onassis, at Palm Beach after her divorce, April, 1968.
Estate stamped and hand numbe...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Hang Gliding'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hang gliding in Kitzbuhel, Austria,1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly fo...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Skiing Princess (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria. February 1961
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
S...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Patsy Pulitzer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car Palm Beach, Florida, 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the e...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Boca Raton - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Skiing in Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features (from left to right) Christine Camerana, Caroline Stoop, and Christine Semenenko Warrender...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Princess Caroline of Monaco
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Princess Caroline of Monaco
1981 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the es...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Villa Borghese Lion
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Villa Borghese Lion, 1970
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
A young girl eating an ice ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Surfing in Biarritz
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 - 2007) with his surfboard on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Villa Nirvana - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital Landscape C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Roca Llisa
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Roca Llisa, 1978 (printed later)
C print
estate edition of 150
Fosca, Vera, and Fiona Bertran holidaying in Roca Llisa, on the island of Ibiza, Spain, 1978.
Estate stamp...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Catherine Wilke Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke
1980
by Slim Aarons
printed 2023
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc
1976
C print
30 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Guests standing by a white Rol...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Marbella House Party, 1967 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'Digging for Clams on Black Beach' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Digging for Clams on Black Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1960 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low...
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1960s American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Snowmass Village
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Snowmass Village
1967
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin Cou...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Yacht Holiday' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marbella, Spain 1967.
A group of bronzed young women captured from the back are seen enjoying the Spanish hot sun aboard a y...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'North Conway Sleigh
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
North Conway Sleigh
1955 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
1955, An open sleigh taking skiers to Cran...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Polo Party
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America's foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to right: Adam Butler, Reutie Bu...
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1980s American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons A Friendly Chat in the Bahamas (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
A Friendly Chat in the Bahamas
1967 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the est...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Surfing in Biarritz
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Author and screenwriter Peter Viertel (1920 - 2007) with his surfboard on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of au...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Verbier Vacation (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaro...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons, Skiing In Gstaad (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In Gstaad, 1961
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A vapour trail above skiers on a ski slope in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1961
Estate stamped and hand numbered editi...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau, 1963.
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The Bahamas Speed ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Curling At St. Moritz
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Curling At St. Moritz, 1963
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Swit...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Catch Up By the Pool' Kaufmann Desert House
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A desert house in Palm Springs designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman. Lita Baron approaches Nelda Linsk, right, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk who is talking to a friend, Hel...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Fruit Cocktail (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Fruit Cocktail, 1968
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Mrs Charles Rogers sits on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa & Racquet Cl...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Positano Beach, 1979 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Scotti's Yacht
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests on board Italian Count Hannibal Scotti's yacht, 'Scotland Cay', Monte Carlo harbour, Monaco.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 wit...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
La Concha Beach Club (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
La Concha Beach Club, 1975
Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Skiing In Vail III (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In Vail III, 1964
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
Estate stamped and h...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Friendly Chat'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Friendly Chat
1968 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Italian countess Consuelo Crespi (left, 1928-201...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
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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.