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
Venetian Play
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) directing Othello on location in Venice.
Slim Aarons
Venetian Play
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate 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
Palm Beach Idyll, Estate Edition, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsuit...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Palm Beach Idyll
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Idyll
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Cee Zee Guest
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cee Zee Guest
Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) reclines on a garden chair in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm ...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Neo-Classical Pool 1985
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.
Sli...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel du Cap' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
An aerial view of the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed La...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons - Boca Raton Polo Set - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Boca Raton Polo Set - Estate Stamped
group of players and friends at a polo match at the Royal Palm Polo Club in Boca Raton, Florida, April...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
'Clifftop Pool' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Clifftop Pool' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis' villa 'La Barranca', Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971.
Pro...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, C Print
Slim Aarons 'At Home With The Montegazzas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
At Home With The Montegazzas
1983 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Giacomo Montegazza and Stefania M...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
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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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons - Verbier Skiers - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Skiers', 1964.
Stylish skiers dressed in fashionable ski wear including a young woman who wears a fur jacket adjust skis and prepare for a day on ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Deauville Casino
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Deauville Casino
An exclusive gambling table at the casino in Deauville, France, 1970.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Colle...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - The Carlton Hotel - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel by Slim Aarons
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
Another gorgeous and typically 'Slim' photograph, it e...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Underwater Drink, Las Brisas, Estate Edition, Acapulco, Mexico, early 1970s
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Slim Aarons
Underwater Drink
Acapulco
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive the next number in the edition
Modern printing from original transparency
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
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.
#slimaarons #acapulco. Vintage scene...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Hugh Hefner' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hugh Hefner' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
American publisher Hugh Hefner, founder of 'Playboy' magazine, surrounded by erotica at the Playboy Club in Chicago, 19...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons 'Beverly Hills Hotel' 1957 Official Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel (1957)
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Slim...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
'Klosters' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Klosters' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, 1963.
Produced from the original transpare...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Gloria Schiff And Consuelo Crespi' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Gloria Schiff And Consuelo Crespi' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Pilar Crespi and her sister, Italian countess Consuelo Crespi (1928-2010) in Costa Smeralda, Sardi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, C Print
'Two-Tone Dress' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Two-Tone Dress' 1956
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print - Oversize
A woman posing in a formal garden wearing a long, sleeveless, two-tone dress with a decorative bow at the...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool
at Acapulco, 1978.
Fashionable...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll' 1955 Official Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll' Estate Stamped Edition
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA (Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph epitomises the travel styl...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
El Dorado Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, circa 1959.
Slim Aarons
Mittersill Castle, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1959,...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Kaufmann Desert House - 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 ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Underwater Drink (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of a...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Lambda
'Caroline And Pet' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Caroline And Pet' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Princess Caroline of Monaco, with her pet dog Tiffany, Monte Carlo, August 1981.
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Arch...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
'Comte d'Arcangues' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Comte d'Arcangues' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
1986, Michel, Comte d'Arcangues, against a wall of Sevres and Compagnie des Indes porcelains at his chateau d'Arca...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Color
Slim Aarons 'Monte Carlo Beach Club' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo Beach Club'
Guests around the pool at the Monte Carlo Beach Club, Monaco, August 1970.
Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm
Esta...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Phil Richards' Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Phil Richards' Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A poolside party at Phil Richards' home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 1970.
Produced from the original tran...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, C Print
Slim Aarons - New York Picnic 1952 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped - New York Picnic 1952
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Harbour Island, Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A couple relax at the beach on Harbour Island, Bahamas, 1967.
16 x 20 inches
$2150
12 x 16 inches
$1800
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Nice Pool' 1955 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nice Pool'
1955. American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs. F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the o...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Porto Ercole' 1973 Italy Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' Italy 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Produced fro...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool By The Sea - Oversize 1969
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool By The Sea
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1969.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Editi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Princess Lucy Ruspoli, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Lucy Ruspoli at Rougemont, near Gstaad, Switzerland, February 1984.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered ...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Clifftop Pool' Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Clifftop Pool'
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis' villa 'La Barranca', Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971.
Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 51 x 61 cm
Estate S...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Lake Tahoe Canoes - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Lake Tahoe Canoes - Estate Stamped
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
This ph...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Waterfall at Rose Hall, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman combing her hair by a waterfall at Rose Hall, Jamaica, December 1971.
Visual description: A tanned white woman smiles and combs her long brown hair by a waterfall at Rose H...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'George Hamilton' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'George Hamilton' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
American actor George Hamilton relaxes on a deckchair in Capri, 1968.
Produced from the original transparency
Certi...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, C Print
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An unknown guest at a New Year's Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and s...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
El Dorado Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, circa 1959.
Slim Aarons
Mittersill Castle, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1959,...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Tyrolean Churches, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1990 winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Andreas Kirche and Liebfrauen Kirche in Kitzbuhel in the Austrian Tyrol, 1990.
This is ...
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1990s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Polo Gear' 1990 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Polo Gear' 1990 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A group of polo players with their equipment, Argentina, December 1990. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Get...
Category
1990s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Print - French Polo Crowd 1950 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - French Polo Crowd - Oversize
A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
silver gelatin print
paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 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.
b/w black and white horse horses equestrian sport sports crowd busy 1950s 50s fashion...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Katharine Hepburn' 1953 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Katharine Hepburn'
1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego B...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Digging For Clams
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay.
Slim Aarons
Digging For Clams
B...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
'Early Riders' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Early Riders' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former mayor Frank Bogert leads an early-morning ride through Andreas Canyon in Palm Springs, southern California, Janu...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast - Oversize
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.
Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edit...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
20 x 16 inches
$2150
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
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giacomo and Stefania Mantegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. Brilliant green trees contrast with the vivid orange, reds and turquoise of the architecture. Four boats can are afloat on the deep blue of the lake.
Slim Aarons
Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
Printed Later
Certificate of Authenticity included
Collector will get the next number in the edition
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). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Now in his 70s, Giacomo Mantegazza...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Stamped Edition - Pool At Lake Tahoe
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Fashionable bathers relax underneath parasols and on sun loungers beside the swimming pool, overlooking Lake Tahoe o...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Nice Pool' Palm Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nice Pool' Palm Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of th...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Palm Beach Street' (Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Street' by Slim Aarons
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
How typically 'Slim style' this photograph is. Beautiful and iconic 1950's...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
'Adolfo De Velasco' 1988 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Adolfo De Velasco' 1988 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Adolfo de Velasco relaxes on a verandah in Marrakech, April 1988.
(Photo by Slim Aarons...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons, The High Life (Mid-century Modern Photography)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The High Life
1968
C print
20 x 24 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat w...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine
French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 – 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
(Photo b...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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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.
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- 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.