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
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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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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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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Slim Aarons 'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' 1960 Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' 1960
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of the Pi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Sunbathing On Capri 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing On Capri
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Snow Round the Pool, Vail, Colorado, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Snow Round The Pool: Bathers having a winter dip in a pool
at Vail, Colorado, March 1964.
48 x 48 inches
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'Crespi And Mastroianni' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Crespi And Mastroianni' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Italian countess Consuelo Crespi (left, 1928-2010) and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (right, 1924 - 1996...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo
Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962.
Paper size 48 x 48" inches / 121 x 121 cm
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'Pool At Las Hadas' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool At Las Hadas' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 1974.
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'Paraglider'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Paraglider
1970's (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco a young blo...
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Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rudulph Ellis Carter holding a picnic in Newport in 1987.
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Marbella House Party, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain.
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'Tennis In The Bahamas' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas'
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking.
Pap...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Home Waters, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
June 1983: Dress designer Gianni Versace (1946 - 1997) and Lalla Spagnol on a motor launch in front of his 17th century villa on Lake Como.
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Hotel on Lake Como, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The swimming pool and jetty at the Villa d'Este Hotel, Lake Como, Italy, June 1983
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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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1990s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'Verbier View' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier View'
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964.
Paper size 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
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Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.
El Venero
1971
C print
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Acapulco Lunch
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A long afternoon lunch at Acapulco. Among the guest are (from left to right) film star Douglas Fairbanks Junior (1909 - 2000), couturiers Oscar de la Renta, and standing behind him E...
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Slim Aarons 'Colorful Crew' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of colourfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda, June 1970. (Photo credit Slim Aarons / Getty Images)
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Acapulco, Estate Edition, Ingrid Morath poolside in the 1960s
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Acapulco, 1961
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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January 1961—Ingrid Morath sunbathes by a sw...
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Slim Aarons 'El Venero' 1967 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'El Venero'
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.
30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm paper size
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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'Molly Wilmot's Pool' 1982 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Molly Wilmot's Pool'
Guests relaxing around the pool at the home of Molly Wilmot, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1982.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collec...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Neo-Classical Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Neo-Classical Pool
Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985.
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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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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'Barbados Bliss' 1976 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Barbados Bliss'
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados, April 1976.
A sumptuous scene of relaxation in an exquisite...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'La Concha Beach Club' 1975 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'La Concha Beach Club'
Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Estate St...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
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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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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'Poolside Chez Holder' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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. (
Gorgeous print measuring an HUGE 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101cm's.
Estate...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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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...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
General view of the croquet court at Newport Casino, Rhode Island, USA, August 1987.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate...
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Poolside Party 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Party
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.
30x40” / 76x101 cm - ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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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...
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'Out Islands' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Out Islands'
Sailing boats in the Out Islands of the Bahamas, April 1964.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features students from Sto...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Art
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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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Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Gorgeous print measuring a large 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
'New England Skiing' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'New England Skiing' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons 'Nancy Talbert at Newport Casino'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Newport Tennis Week
1953 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A view from the umbrella boxes towards the t...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - All Aboard
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features students from Sto...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Lake Tahoe - Oversize C print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool At Lake Tahoe
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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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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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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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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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
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Three Sisters' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Shoppers on the pavement outside a Three Sisters boutique in Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Three Sisters
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 1...
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Desert House Party 1970 Official Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Desert House Party, 1970
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 d...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a stand-up fondue...
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'Beauty Queen' 1955- Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beauty Queen' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965), third from right, at her Park Avenue, New York apartment with her hus...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: Guests by the pool...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features students from Sto...
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Windsors In Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walking their dog in Portofino in 1951.
This is an est...
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Yachting Trip, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Kaufmann Desert House 1970 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kaufmann Desert House
The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann and now owned by Nelda Linsk. Lita ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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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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NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two women sitting outside the 'Bubble House' belonging to Joseph Reed on Southeast Venus Street, Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, circa 1955. The two Eliot Noyes designed houses w...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Florence 'Flo' Pritchet' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and American fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer at a poolside luncheon, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
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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.