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: 1970s
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Period: 1980s
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Artist: Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Drinks' 1975 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Drinks'
May 1975: Guests around the pool at Dorothy Laughlin's Santa Barbara home.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Pastels (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Pastels (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Beach At St. Tropez' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beach At St. Tropez' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Sunbathers on the beach at St. Tropez, France, 1977.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authentici...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs (Kaufmann Desert House)
1970 (printed later)
C Print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity
Former fashion model Hel...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'El Venero
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Dining Al Fresco in Capri
1980 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Italian artist and actress Domiziana Gio...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's cocktail party ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dining Al Fresco On Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco on a terrace overlooking the wat...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons - Kaufmann House Contact Sheet - Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
' KAUFMANN HOUSE CONTACT SHEET COMPOSITE ' 1970 by Slim Aarons
ESTATE EDITION -
numbered and emboss stamped on front. (special edition size 50 only)
Former fashion model Helen Dz...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'El Venero'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero
1971 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
El Venero, th...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Safari Party at Romanoff's' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at a fancy dress party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1950.
Slim Aarons
Safari Party at Romanoff's, 1950
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stampe...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Sunbathing On Capri' Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sunbathing On Capri' by Slim Aarons ESTATE EDITION (edition size 150 only)
Super Oversize 60 x 40 inches
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Cata...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Pousada Dos Buzios Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pousada Dos Buzios
1975
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Friends by the pool at Pousada Dos Buzios in Brazil, August 1975. Left is student Fabian Crespo, lying on...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons The Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlto...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Fan Mail' 1955- Slim Aarons Official Limited Edition Estate Print Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Fan Mail' 1955
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ had been released. ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
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
Materials
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
Slim Aarons 'Exotic Hair Care'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Exotic Hair Care
1989
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A woman combing her hair by a waterfall at Rose Hal...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Lake Tahoe Trip (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Lake Tahoe Trip
1959
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Young women canoeing at Zephyr Cove on th...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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
Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Cortina d’Ampezzo 1982 Limited Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cortina d’Ampezzo
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
72x48” / 183 x 122 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition ...
Category
1980s 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...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Kings of Hollywood (Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Van Heflin)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photograph is finally available again, for the first time in over a year.
In this classic black and white photograph, film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, Principe Dom Pedro De Orleans E Braganca, grandson of Brazilian emperor Pedro II. He is pictured at...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
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
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
Esther Williams, Poolside, Estate Edition, 1950s Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Catherine Wilke, Capri (open edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Catherine Wilke, Capri (open edition),1980
Chromogenic lambda print
This open edition print is released directly from the Slim Aarons estate.
Catherine Wilke joins the ...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Having A Topping Time 1959 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Having A Topping Time - Oversize
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach. A Wonderful Time – Slim Aarons
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Chromogenic print
paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm
unframed
printed later
edition size 150 only
certificate of authenticity supplied
numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
palm palms dog dogs...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
New York Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline.
1952
Additional Info...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, C Print
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
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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
Cat-Shaped Pool, Estate Edition, Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Cat-Shaped Pool, a newly available Estate Edition photograph, features a charming swimming pool in the shape of a cat at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, circa 1955. This historic shot of the pool was captured just after the the Fontainebleau's opening in 1954.
Visual Description: Guests enjoying the newly opened turquoise cat-shaped pool at the Fontainebleu Hotel, designed by Morris Lapidus. The deck features sunny, graphic yellow and black umbrellas, as well as red, yellow and blue striped umbrellas and loungers. The cat's tail is a vintage wooden diving board, its ears are stairs, and its nose is a slide. Designed by Morris Lapidus.
Slim Aarons
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
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.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150).
Internal: vintage '50s florida, 50's Miami, vintage poolside, vintage swim fashion, vintage slim aarons, Fontainebleau Hotel, vintage Miami beach, Miami architecture...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
The St. Regis, New York, Estate Edition, Event Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s event photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of diners at the St. Regis, New York.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Bar Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Bar
1980
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests seen from a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1980
unframed
c type ...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 Carlton Hotel' 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Carlton Hotel'
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
Gorgeous print measuring a very large 30 x 30" inches / approx 76 ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Slim Aarons 'Tennis At Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A view from the umbrella boxes towards the tennis court at Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 1953.
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
'Dali And Gala' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print- Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dali And Gala' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print- Oversize
Spanish artist Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) enjoying a cup of coffee with his wife Gala (1894 – 1982) on a terrace at the Ritz Hotel, Madrid.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Silver Gelatin Print
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Archive stamped and numbered in ink on the front
Paper size 20 x 20 / 50 x 50 cm
Printed 2020
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE :
12 x 12 / 30 x 30 cm
16 x 16 / 40 x 40 cm
20 x 20 / 50 x 50 cm
30 x 30 / 76 x 76 cm
40 x 40 / 102 x 102 cm
50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
FRAMING:
Please note that this piece is unframed –
however, we offer a full framing service.
If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote.
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
b/w black and white relaxing taking a break cafe restaurant dining art...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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
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...
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
Slim Aarons 'Cannes Water Sports, Carlton Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Cannes Water Sports, Carlton Hotel
1958
C Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certifi...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Pool On Amalfi Coast Italy Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool On Amalfi Coast'
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984.
Gorgeous blues in this image with the ocean and swimming pool, contrast...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
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
Slim Aarons 'Catherine Wilke' 1980 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catherine Wilke'
1980. Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri.
20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Saks Fifth Ave, 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 an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Lambda
Catherine Wilke in Capri 2 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Catherine Wilke in Capri 2, 1980
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Catherine Wilke joins the...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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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.
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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.