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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Artist: Slim Aarons
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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.
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Jack and GeeGee Entz on Rose-Canopied Steps, Tivoli
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jack and GeeGee Entz beneath the rose-canopied steps which lead to the entrance of the tennis courts at the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, near Rome, Italy, ...
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Paradise Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Versailles Gardens and the French Cloister at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, opposite Nassau on the Bahamas, May 1968.
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Hotel Taormina Pool Sicily, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sea Rocky Shore
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph features a seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons in August 1975.
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Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim: Rita Aarons' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in th...
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On the Slopes of Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of people relaxing at the chalet of stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr, at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in in Warren, Vermont, circa 1960.
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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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Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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Las Vegas Luxury
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
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Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960.
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Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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.
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Skiing In Vermont, USA, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people ice skating at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1963.
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Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960.
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Skiing In Seefeld, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985.
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Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960.
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Dining At The Eagle Club, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photogra
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1660s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers pass by a snow covered tree in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1969.
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Skiing In Vermont, USA, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people ice skating at the Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1963.
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Sugarbush Skiing, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1660 winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an individual skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960.
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Hotel Olden, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Urban Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people carrying their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
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Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This mid-1960s winter portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a blonde skier on the slopes at ...
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La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
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Sunbathing in Antibes, Estate Edition Photograph: Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc Poolside
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. Aarons' iconic photograph depicts the legendary hotel made famous by Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, the sun-kissed home away from home for titans of literature and music (Cole Porter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Stefan Zweig, Noël Coward), film (Marlene Dietrich, Alain Delon, Elizabeth Taylor, who brought all of her husbands there, and every Hollywood A-lister in town for Cannes), art (Chagall, Picasso, Matisse), music (John and Yoko, Jane and Serge, Ella Fitzgerald), politics (Churchill, De Gaulle, the Kennedys), and high society (the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson). Two female bathers in black sunhats enjoy a holiday in bikini and topless styles, against the rocks. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons...
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Pebble Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976.
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Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece. Taken in July 1961, the photograph shows a group of you...
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Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, Estate Edition Photograph (Sunbathers, Ocean, Pool)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers in Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil, January 1983. On a sparkling day, Slim Aarons captures a glamorous scene of vintage sunbathers relaxing in stylish bikinis and swimsuits by a brilliant turquoise pool. A woman approaches in a retro black and white patterned tank suit and sun hat. Vibrant red orange flowers circle the pool, and holidaymakers enjoy tropical cocktails. In the midground, a festive boat cruises by. In the background, the ocean catches the light, fading from teal to royal blue, a subtle contrast with the turquoise water of the pool, and the soft white clouds and delft blue sky above. A brilliant green maritime forest and neutral cabana with Spanish, or Double Roman, roof tiles provide shade, and compositionally frame the ocean vista...
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Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
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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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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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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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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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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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Caped Skiers, Colorado, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Caped Skiers, Colorado, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skimaster Stein Eriksen lea...
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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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Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
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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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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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Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Model Barbara...
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Marbles Championship, 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 group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City.
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Marbles Championship, 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 group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City.
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Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
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Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland.
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Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland.
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Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland.
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Champagne by the Pool, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo (in white crochet, left) talking to a guest by the pool at Ne...
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Poolside Scenery, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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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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Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962.
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Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962.
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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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Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Palace Hotel in Gstaad, ...
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Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ladies by the pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. From right to left, former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), unknown, Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita Baron (in white sunhat). The Linsks are the current owners of the house.
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."
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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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Crespi Family Members, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Left to right: Brando Crespi and daughter Chloe, with his sister Pilar Crespi Echavarria and her son Sebastian, at Monte Argentario Polo Club, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy, September...
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Slim Aarons, Gwendolyn Brooks, Chicago Poet (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gwendolyn Brooks on the back steps of her home in Chicago, 1960.
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Between the Sea and Sky, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ingrid Morath sunbathes by a swimming pool next to the sea in Acapulco, 1961. Ingrid was born in Rio de Janeiro and lives in Mexico City.
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Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, February 1972.
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- 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.
- 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.