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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'Palm Springs Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Springs Party'
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Squaw Valley Snow, California, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Squaw Valley Snow, California, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the deserted ...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Pop And Society Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society 1968
From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed pa...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
'Pool In Sotogrande' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool In Sotogrande' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975. (Photo by Slim Aa...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
'Monte Mano' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Mano'
A swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, August 197...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color, Archival Pigment
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This mid-1955s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Kirk Douglas In Antibes' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Kirk Douglas In Antibes'
American actor Kirk Douglas (right) prepares to go waterskiing at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, A...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Ice Hockey, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ice Hockey, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1990s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people play an im...
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1990s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Eden-Roc Hotel du Cap 1976 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Archival...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color, Archival Pigment
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986, centre, standing), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and Helen Dzo Dzo (second from right)
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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism.
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."
Slim Aarons
Palm Springs Party...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Pop And Society' 1968 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pop And Society'
1968: From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness, and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Sports - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sli...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
'Kaufmann Desert House' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C print 30x20" inches unframed.
' Kaufmann Desert House '
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Skiing Holiday - Slim Aarons - Gstaad - 20th century colour photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing Holiday' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print (to 150 only)
by Slim Aarons
American political novelist William F Buckley Jnr takes a break...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
'Saint Tropez' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint Tropez' Slim Aarons Estate Edition (to 150 only)
Numbered & emboss stamped on front.
Holidaymakers on the deck of yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971.
In his word...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Aluminum
Curling, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curling, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Heinrich Dite and L...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print 'Motorboats In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Motorboats In Antibes' by Slim Aarons
Motorboats moored on the coast near the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
Beautiful Riva motorboats are se...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
'Curacao Children' Antilles Slim Aarons ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Curacao Children' by Slim Aarons
Three local children sitting on a low wall, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, January 1979.
An exquisite LIMITED Edition Slim Aarons Estate C-type Pr...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
'Dance Class' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dance Class' 1959 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Premium Rates Apply. June 1959: Children at Mrs William de Rham's Dancing Class held at the Riv...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
'Hotel Du Palais Biarritz' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Du Palais Biarritz' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The curved beachside pool at the Hotel du Palais Biarritz, Biarritz, France, September 1985.
Produced from...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print, Color
'Unghia Marina' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Unghia Marina'
A group of people stand on a terrace, at the Unghia Marina on the island of Capri, Italy, in September 1989. Trees dot the side of the marina while a flagpole rise...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment, Color
'Buzios' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Buzios' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Holidaymakers in Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, January 1983.
Gorgeous print measuring a HUGE 60 x 40...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Klosters 1963 - EstateStamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Klosters, 1963
Skiers walk past the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters and along the snow covered road carrying skis on their shoulders. The road is lined with classic and vintage c...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Pevero Golf Corse
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Pevero Golf Corse, 1978
C-print
Estate edition of 150
1978, The Pevero Golf Course, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certif...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Handball In Central Park, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped ...
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1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
'Palm Springs Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Springs Party'
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in th...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lido Life, Venice, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Lido Life, Venice, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Hôtel Du Cap-Eden-Roc, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers in a motorboat off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, 1969.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and sta...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
NEW Slim Aarons 'Polo Player Close Up' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A close-up portrait shot of a polo player in Palm Beach, Florida, 1977.
Slim Aarons
Polo Player Close Up
1970
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior
The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957.
48x48" / 122 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Water Babe, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: 'Town & Country' writer Meg O'Neil relaxes by the pool on the island of Mustique, in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Pellicano Beach' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pellicano Beach'
Boats at a jetty by the beach at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Carmen Meyrink-Veiga'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Carmen Meyrink-Veiga, 1986
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Carmen Meyrink-Veiga amid her Brazilian...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
'Hotel Punta Tragara' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Punta Tragara' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The Hotel Punta Tragara on Capri, Italy, August 1974.
Produced from the original t...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print, Color
'Poolside Style' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Style' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eden-Roc Pool' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 15...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color, Archival Pigment
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a helicopter arriving at a mo...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970
Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 24" inches / ca 50.8 x 60.9 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Pr...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Desert House Party' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial designer Raymond Loewy (189...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Nancy Talbert And Lefty Flynn'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Talbert And Lefty Flynn
1953 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Nancy Talbert, with former America...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons - Milan Cathedral 1960 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Milan Cathedral
The duomo or cathedral in the Piazza del Duomo, Milan, 1960.
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
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
'Megachess' 1993 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Megachess'
A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993
Two young women in colourful dresses are seen taking their turn standing within the giant c...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Jean Serpieri' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Jean Serpieri'
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of modern Greece, Decem...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
'Poolside Party' Palm Springs (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Party' Palm Springs
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann. This p...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
'Christmas Swim' 1954 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Christmas Swim' 1954 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This mid-1955s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Chateau Saint-Martin' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Chateau Saint-Martin' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
An outdoor luncheon by the swimming pool of the Chateau Saint-Martin, a luxury hotel in Vence on the Cote d'Azu...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This mid-1955s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Monte Carlo' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo'
The swimming pool of a villa in Monte Carlo, Monaco, August 1970.
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
Transport Buffs, Estate Edition, Monte Carlo Harbour
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Transport Buffs,' an authentic Slim Aarons Estate Edition photograph, captures an opulent scene from the summer of 1976 in the Monte Carlo harbour. The image depicts Roy J Craven and Prince Pouilnac engaged in conversation on a luxury yacht. Adorning the deck of the yacht are a helicopter and two motor boats, adding color, structure and grandeur of the scene. The duo reclines on a semi-circular seating area at the yacht's stern, featuring bright orange and white stripes, enhancing the vibrant luxury of this iconic moment.
'Transport Buffs'
Monte Carlo Harbor
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
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.
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). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, 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.
Internal: This Slim Aarons Seascape Photograph is set in Vintage Monte Carlo, and fits the following curatorial categories: Vintage Harbor, Vintage Yachts, ocean, France, 70's Monte Carlo, seascape, red and white stripes, Vintage beach, vintage glamour, vintage summer, watercraft, summer 1976, Monte Carlo harbour, Roy J Craven, Prince Pouilnac, luxury yacht, helicopter on yacht, motor boats, orange and white striped seating...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Villa Del Balbianello
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Villa Del Balbianello
Italian mountain climber and explorer Guido Monzino (1928-1988) and four people relaxing on th...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Poolside Host, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann. At far left is Lita Baron....
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
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Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, pink, purple and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Slim Aarons in c print, archival pigment print, pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Slim Aarons art, so small editions measuring 30 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Bob Willoughby, and Pico Garcez. Slim Aarons art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,500 and tops out at $6,230, while the average work can sell for $3,950.
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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.