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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
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 20 x 30 inches $3000 20 x 24 inches $2500 16 x 20 inches $2150 ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Pool At Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Sardinia, Italy)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of a swimming pool in Rosarda, Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, August 1982. Visual Description:...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Snowmass Village 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March 1968. 30x40” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Col...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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'Spectators At Lord’s' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Spectators At Lord’s' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Spectators at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, 1955. ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Silver Gelatin

'Park Avenue' 1953 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Park Avenue' 1953: A view of neatly arranged office and apartment blocks along Park Avenue in New York City. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

'Abaco Holiday' 1986 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Abaco Holiday' College student Jan Woods relaxes in a hammock at the Abaco Inn on Elbow Cay, one of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas, March 1986. Pa...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970. Gorgeous print measuring 60 width x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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'Eden-Roc Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eden-Roc Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. Gorgeous print measuring a Huge 60 x 40" inc...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Winter Wear' Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976. Paper size 40 x 30 i...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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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...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Poolside Secrets, Estate Edition, Slim Aarons Palm Beach Collection
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flo Smith (left) and Lily Pulitzer share a secret at a pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961. Description and alt text: In this classic image of midcentury poolside glamour, two suntanned white women share a moment by the sparkling blue and green reflective swimming pool. Flo Smith wears a breezy straw hat and sailor striped top with white shorts, and Lily Pulitzer wears a mod Grecian vase print and coral pants, and a vibrant pink kerchief. The figures in the foreground are in crisp detail, and the lush background of palm trees and cool blue sky is in soft focus. There is a beautiful contrast between the soft-focus background foliage and its graphic, bright reflection in the pool in the middle ground. Flo holds a white bag and her nails are painted red, echoing the trim of her hat. Pulitzer wears a jade bracelet, echoing the jade of the pool and her top, and her nails are natural. A blue cabana can be seen in the background. Flo holds an arm around Lily's waist, and Lily lightly tips the corner of Flo's hat. This is a perfect image for a collector of classic photography, midcentury glamour, or iconic friendship. Color chips for complementary decorative shades of soft red, deep pink, delft blue (sky), and jade greens (pool, palms and poolside foliage) can be seen in slideshow. 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 photography, 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 tags are vintage glamour, vintage Palm Beach, midcentury glamour featuring Lily Pulitzer, Slim Aarons, classic midcentury photography, perfect reflection, iconic friendship, historic glamour, red, pink, blue and green, turquoise and jade...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955. New England Skiing Black and White Photography Slim Aa...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

NEW Slim Aarons 'Pulitzer Pool Party' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests relax by the swimming pool at Lilly Pulitzer's pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961. Lilly Pulitzer is seen at centre (wearing headscarf) on the lap of her husband, Pet...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Silver Gelatin

Poolside Host, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann. At far left is Lita Baron....
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - HABITATION LECLERC
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bathers walking down steps to the swimming pool at Habitation Leclerc, Haiti, January 1975. They are followed by a waiter with cocktails. Gorgeous...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Donna Fabrizia Lanza Di Mazzarino, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Donna Fabrizia Lanza di Mazzarino at the Villa Tasca, Sicily, Italy, 1984. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Arts Festival' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Palm Beach Arts Festival in the grounds of Bethesda-by-the-Sea church, Palm Beach, Florida, 1964. Slim Aarons Palm Beach Arts Festival 1964 C-Print Estate signature s...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Bad Luck Gloria 1951
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bad Luck Gloria 2nd April 1951: American actor Jose Ferrer (1912 – 1992) commiserates with Gloria Swanson after losing out in the contest for the Best Actress oscar, while the winner, Judy Holliday...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Slim Aarons 'Snow Round the Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers having a winter dip in a pool at Vail, Colorado, March 1964. Slim Aarons Snow Round The Pool Giclee Print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Other sizes available from Undercurrent Projects: 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 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. 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: Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Vail Photograph, 1960s Photography, Vintage Colorado...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Trident, Early Levy's Castle - View of Jamaican Architect Earl Levy's Castle
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
View of Jamaican Architect Earl Levy's Castle, the castle itself is the only one on the island, and was designed and built by Jamaican architect Earl Levy and his wife Beverly 16 x ...
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Party In Bermuda
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Party In Bermuda A party on the deck of the yacht 'Ondine' in Bermuda, June 1970. Gorgeous print measuring a Supersize 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 10...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City. This i...
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1940s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Marbles Championship, New York City, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of boys competing in a marble championship in Central Park, New York City. This i...
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1940s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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'Motorcycling Lord' 1990 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Motorcycling Lord' 1990: Lord Hesketh, Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, by the lake in the grounds of his family estate Easton...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Archival Pigment

Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Gstaad Town Centre, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the town centre at the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and...
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1960s American 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 Pia...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Via Mizner Shop Owners' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Via Mizner store owners Diana 'Dysie' Davie (second from left, wearing a yellow turtleneck sweater) and Charles Amory (far left, wearing yellow pants) posed with their fellow store o...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons, Sugarbush Chalet
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A group of people relaxing in a chalet in the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort, one of the largest ski resorts in New England, in Warren, Vermont, USA, circa 1960. Estate stamped and h...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Arizona' 1973 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Arizona' Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 51 x 76 c...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Poolside Friendship, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Black and White, Lambda

Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Art

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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 Numbered and sta...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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'Palm Beach Party' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Party' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print A pool party in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1964. Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authentici...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped 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 ocea...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Archival Pigment

'Dining at Wilmot's' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dining at Wilmot's' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Accordion music accompanies a meal by the pool at the home of Molly Wilmot in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. (P...
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'Snowmass Gathering' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Snowmass Gathering' Two women, wearing brightly-coloured skiwear, stand in the foreground of a group of people attending a party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, i...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Cannes Watersports - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958. 40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Ph...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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'Plantation Cocoyer' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Plantation Cocoyer' People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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NEW Slim Aarons 'Everglades Club Boogie Dancer' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actress Lanita Kent takes to the dance floor at a party hosted by Jim Kimberly at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1968. Slim Aarons Boogie Dancer 1968 C-...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capucine French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 – 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills. Paper size 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 4...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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'Hotel Du Cap' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Du Cap' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Holidaymakers at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes on the French Riviera, 1969. Produced from the original transpare...
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Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. Slim Aarons Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, 1976 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and hand numbered editi...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram

Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Rowing Off Sicily
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Two couples out rowing off the coast of Sicily near Taormina, 1975. Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 20" inches / ca 76.2 x 50.8 cm’s paper size. Estate Stamped Collection Edition t...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Ocho Rios, Jamaica 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Ocho Rios, Jamaica 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print Mr and Mrs John James stroll on their fifteen-acre estate that blossoms with half a million poinsettias, Oc...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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'Equestrian Entrance' 1957 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Equestrian Entrance' 1957 Madame de la Haye-Jousselin on her horse at the gates to her chateau in Normandy. 30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leonard Dalsemer - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Paper size 30 x 40" inches / 76 x 101 cm Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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'Vourekas-Petalas Family' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Vourekas-Petalas Family' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Greek architect Andreas Vourekas-Petalas beside the Parthenon on the Acropolis, with his wife Alexandra and ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons, Tennis in the Bahamas ( Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tennis in the Bahamas, 1957 Chromogenic lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Two women stand talking t...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons - Bettina Graziani - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 – 2015) adjusting the sail of a boat, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, 1964. Gor...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego. This is an estate stamp...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Lambda

Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism. Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday." Slim Aarons Poolside Party...
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Apres Ski 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Apres Ski A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, 1961. Second from right is American lawyer and businessman Alexander Cochrane Cushing (1913 – 2006), who ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Archival Pigment

Sarah Marson Williams, Barbados, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sarah Marson Williams enjoying a cocktail on the beach at the Hilton Hotel, Needhams Point,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons : Eden Roc Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both before...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art

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Slim Aarons art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, pink, purple and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Slim Aarons in c print, archival pigment print, pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Slim Aarons art, so small editions measuring 30 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Bob Willoughby, and Pico Garcez. Slim Aarons art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,500 and tops out at $6,230, while the average work can sell for $3,950.
Questions About Slim Aarons Art
  • 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025
    Slim 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, 2025
    The 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.
  • 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025
    The 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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