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: 1960s
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Artist: Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Donald Leas - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Donald Leas
Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida.
48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stam...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Marbella Club (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella Club (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club,
Marbella, Spain, 1976.
Additional Informatio...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color, Archival Pigment
'Coral Beach' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Coral Beach'
A view of Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limi...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color, Archival Pigment
Saint-Tropez Beach, Estate Edition, French Riviera
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Saint-Tropez Beach, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of sunbathers on the French Riviera, August 1971. Colorful coral red and mint green umbrellas shelte...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Poolside Catwalk Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Catwalk
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Jose...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Springs Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Springs Pool
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Yacht Holiday' SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Yacht Holiday' by Slim Aarons
Limited Edition Estate Print
limited to 150 only
numbered in ink & emboss stamped.
60 x 40 " inches paper size
Tanne...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Eye Of The Beholder'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Eye Of The Beholder
1974 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
A man c...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
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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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside Chez Holder
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Chez Holder
Guests by the pool at Albin Holder’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, May 1970.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Capri Tan' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1968, A kneeling sunbather shows off her rings and pendant on a beach in Capri, Italy.
Slim Aarons
Capri Tan
Hotel Punta Tragara, Capri, Italy
C...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Hotel De Paris In Monaco Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel De Paris In Monaco
1977
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977
unframed
c type print
printed...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Desert House Party - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Desert House Party
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 designe...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The High Life' : Mid-century Modern Photography : Celebrity
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.
The High Life
1968
C prin...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Megachess - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Megachess
A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993.
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo b...
Category
1990s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Verbier Vacation (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Vacation, 1964
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Ver...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Archival ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Poolside Fashions Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Fashions
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The house was ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Lyford Cay Fire Department' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The fire service in Lyford Cay, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, April 1966
Slim Aarons
Lyford Cay Fire Service
Slim Aarons Estate Edit...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Dinner Jazz, Louis Armstrong in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Slim Aarons
Dinner Jazz
Louis Armstrong in 1940s Rome
Black and White Pho...
Category
1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
Skiers at Verbier, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 1964.
This is an est...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
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.
This is a...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess On Deck
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess on Deck
Countess Gioia Gaetani-Lovatelli relaxes on deck during a yachting holiday in Porto Rotondo, 1982.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 6...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez Boucherie
A boucherie or butcher’s shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm
Estate ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers pass by the Hote...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Palm Springs Party (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Desert House Party, 1970. (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
A poolside party at a desert house, desig...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
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: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Poolside Waiting, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a waiter by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Poolside Friendship - NEW Archive discovery - Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Poolside Friendship - NEW Archive discovery - Limited Estate Print
A brand new release from the Slim Aarons Estate & Archive - this...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Eden-Roc Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eden-Roc Pool
1976
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
72" x 48" paper size
Photo by Sli...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tennis Guests later Jackie Kennedy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis Guests 1953
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Michael Canfield and Jacqueline Bouvier (later Kennedy and then Onassis) at Newport Casino for Tennis Week, 1953. Original Publicati...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Bermuda Idyll Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda Idyll
1977
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Mrs Frank McMahon and guests around the pool at her seaside home in Bermuda, 1977.
unframed
c type print
prin...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition. From the Poolside Series
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...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Eden-Roc Pool Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eden-Roc Pool
1976
by Slim Aarons
printed 2025
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
72" ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Annette Glatzel in Ibiza (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Abaco Holiday, 1986
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
College student Jan Woods relaxes in a hammock at the Abaco Inn on Elbow Cay, one of ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carrying a wine in an ice bucket and the third carrying a menu, circa 19...
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1960s 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 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Archival ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Eden Roc Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden Roc Hotel
1976 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: The luxurious Hotel du Cap Eden Roc at Cap d'Antibe...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Carlton Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Carlton Hotel
1963
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France, 1963.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
20 × 16 inches - paper size
...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Colourful Crew Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colourful Crew
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970
unframed
c type print
printed 20...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gasthof Post Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Slim Aarons
Gasthof Post Pool
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Est...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Man’s Work Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Man’s Work
1960
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Working at his typewriter surrounded by ‘bunny girls’, publisher Hugh M Hefner at the P...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Anne Anka Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Anne Anka
1976
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Anne Anka, wife of singer Paul Anka and daughter of Count Charles de Zogheb, with her daughters (left to right) Al...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Marbella Club Bather' Mid-Century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
"Marbella Club Bather," a 1976 Slim Aarons photograph, captures mid-century modern Mediterranean luxury. Limited C-print (1/150), estate-stamped, authenticated.
Slim Aarons
Marbella...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Sunbathers At Eden Roc Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathers At Eden Roc
1969
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Sunbathers at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969.
unframed
c type print
printe...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Eye Of The Beholder'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Eye Of The Beholder
1974 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A man contemplates the sunbathers...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
'Marbella House Party' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Marbella House Party' 1980 Italy by Slim Aarons
Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain, August 1967.
(Photo by ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
La Concha Beach Club Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Concha Beach Club
1975
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
2...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Laguna Beach Surfers - Slim Aarons - colour C print photography - 20th century
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach Surfers (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Three surfers with their boards at sunset, Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons.
In his words, he loved to photograph 'beautiful people in beautiful places, doing beautiful things'.
A beautiful authentic LIMITED EDITION Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition - limited to 150 only.
Numbered in ink & emboss stamped on front.
Gorgeous print measuring a very large 60 x 40" inches / ca 151 x 101 cm's.
Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source.
Slim Aarons Archive authorized.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
We ship regularly using crating...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
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
Poolside Party - Limited Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C print 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm unframed.
' Poolside Party ' 1970
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Winter Suntans - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Winter Suntans
Young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Leonard Dalsemer, Lyford Cay, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
This image features a classic Slim Aarons contrast: between the manmade and the beauty of nature. It's an expertly composed scene of midcentury glamour that still feels casual and light. The azure blue of the sky contrasts with the deeper blues and aquas of the sea, and the sparkling turquoise of the pool. While human figures anchor the scene, the expertly captured contrast of natural grandeur and architectural geometry make this scene truly magnificent.
Image Description: In the background, leafy green palm trees and other trees blow in the breeze before a bright azure sky and slightly deeper blue ocean surf. In the foreground, two couples walk the pool deck in pastel pink and green clothing. Three children play in the turquoise pool. A verdant green hedge lines the front of the image, anchored by seven white florals in white pots. In the background is a pool cabana...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Hotel Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
1960
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Leisure in Antibes' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
Leisure in Antibes
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, French Riviera
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: Slim Aarons Seascape Photography, Vintage Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Vintage Pools, Vintage French Riviera, ocean, France, 70's French Riviera, seascape, red, Vintage beach...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, 'The High Life' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Kaufmann Desert House
1977. (printed later)
C print
40 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
August 1977: Actor Georg...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
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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.