Slim Aarons Art
American, 1916-2006
American photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.
Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.
Aarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars.
In the 1950s, Aarons opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. He was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo.
In a 2002 interview with The Independent, Aarons remarked, ''I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them.'' This access allowed him to document the rich and famous with their guard down, reading newspapers and magazines, talking on the phone, relaxing by the pool, and chatting with friends. The 1957 photograph The Kings of Hollywood, for example, which won him wide acclaim, shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing together as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.
Many of Aarons’s best-known images involve games and sports. In the 1972 Poolside Backgammon, two young women play the board game of the title against the backdrop of a majestic Acapulco estate. In 1958’s Cannes Watersports, a couple attempts to glide across the Golfe de la Napoule on Jet Skis, one expertly and one hanging on for dear life. And in Penthouse Pool, shot in Athens in 1961, a young woman wearing a yellow bathing cap smiles coyly at the camera, surrounded by friends and brightly colored seat cushions, with the Acropolis faintly visible in the background.
Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death.
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Period: 1970s
Period: 1950s
Period: 1980s
Period: 1990s
Artist: Slim Aarons
Teddy Stauffer In Acapulco Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Teddy Stauffer In Acapulco
1971
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Swiss bandleader and restaurateur Teddy Stauffer (1909 – 1991) in the swimming pool of Warren Avi...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
New Year At Romanoff’s Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New Year At Romanoff’s
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Equestrian Entrance' 1957 Official 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.
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Adolfo De Velasco Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Adolfo De Velasco
1988
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Adolfo de Velasco relaxes on a verandah in Marrakech, April 1988
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
16 x ...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Giacomo Montegazza Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Giacomo Montegazza
1983
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Cassinella, on Lake Co...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pool By The Sea Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool By The Sea
1985
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A swimming pool and lounge deck over the sea at Angra Dos Reis, Brazil, 1985.
unframed
c type print
printe...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vuccino And Rava Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vuccino And Rava
1958
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on th...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Positano Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano Beach
1979
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lake Tahoe Trip Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Trip
1959
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
16×16 inche...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bermuda View Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda View
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club, 1957.
u...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Taormina Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taormina
1975
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A swimming pool in Taormina, Sicily, 1975.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
16×20 inches - paper size
Limited ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Private Transport Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Private Transport
1954
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Gladys ‘Patsy’ Bartlett (1928 – 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the se...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pulitzer On The Beach - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pulitzer On The Beach
Patsy Pulitzer at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Produced utilisi...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Party at Romanoff’s' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Party at Romanoff’s' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
A party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills,...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Dining al Fresco in Capri'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco on a terrace overlooking the wat...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
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...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of colourfully dressed friends on board the Calypso clothing store owned boat, Bermuda.
...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Soho Waiters' Race (1955) - Slim Aarons- Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Soho Waiters' Race (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Waiters carrying half bottles of champagne set off on the annual...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Laguna Beach Surfer - Slim Aarons - colour C print photography - 20th century
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach Surfers (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Three surfers with their boards at sunset, Laguna Beach, California, January 1970. (Photo by Slim Aar...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Aluminum
'Saint-Tropez Beach' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint-Tropez Beach' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The beach at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Produced from the original transparency
Certific...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Estate Edition Photograph (Poolside in Antibes)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers enjoy the sun by the pool at the Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, 1978. Aarons' iconic photograph depicts the legendary hotel made famous by Fitzgerald's Tender is the...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
'Skiing Starters' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing - 'Skiing Starters' (1955) - Limited Edition Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
A young skier prefers to ca...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Cannes Watersports, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step back in time to the sunlit shores of the French Riviera with Slim Aarons' Cannes Watersports. This exquisite photograph captures the quintessential spirit of the 1950s holiday g...
Category
1950s Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cortina d'Ampezzo
1982 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
A rest from skiing at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Mar...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Beauty and the Beast
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
'Pool At Las Brisas' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool At Las Brisas' 1972
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
'Pool At Las Brisas' by Slim Aarons Guests in the pool at the ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Gasthof Post Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Slim Aarons
Gasthof Post Pool
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Est...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach,
Florida, USA, 1955.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size:...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'The Fullers' 1970 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Fullers'
May 1970: Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL.
20x20" inches /...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Snorkelling In The Shallows (1969) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snorkeling In The Shallows (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A group of people snorkeling off a small boat in Malta, circa 1959.
Additional Informa...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Bermuda View (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bermuda View (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
View from the Bermudiana Hotel looking towards Paget, in the foreground the Royal Bermuda Yacht club,
1957.
...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Mara Lane At The Sands - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mara Lane At The Sands
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Vuccino And Rava' SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Vuccino And Rava' by Slim Aarons
Limited Edition Estate Print
limited to 150 only
numbered in ink & emboss stamped.
40 x 30 " inches paper size
Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimmi...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Spinnaker Sailing' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spinnaker sailing on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, August 1973
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Il Pellicano - Porto Ercole - Slim Aarons 20th century color photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il Pellicano' by Slim Aarons
The beachside pool at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
This photograph epitomise...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Aluminum
San Diego Home (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
San Diego Home (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A woman in a day dress in the sitting room of a house in San Diego,
California, October 1956.
Additio...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Count And Countess Jaime De Mora Y Aragon' Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Count And Countess Jaime De Mora Y Aragon' by Slim Aarons
LIMITED EDITION ESTATE STAMPED PRINT
Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
Coun...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden-Roc Pool
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 at the ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
La Dolce Vita: Vuccino & Rava in Capri, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carla Vuccino, wearing a blue swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava in green. Both wear vintage bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat, on the deep marine blue waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, 1958.
Slim Aarons
La Dolce Vita: Vuccino & Rava
Capri, Italy
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate 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 *
From a recent Vogue article on the photography of Slim Aarons: "The iconic Capri is always teeming with a variety of hotels, each more beautiful than the last. A stone's throw from the Villa Malaparte from Jean-Luc Godard's movie Contempt, the Faraglioni cliffs plunging into the turquoise of the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the colorful houses that climb the bay. The Hotel Punta Tragara was one of Slim Aarons' favorite spots in Italy."
# Vintage Capri, Vintage dolce vita, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Poolside...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
'Dining Al Fresco On Capri' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dining Al Fresco On Capri' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sa...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color
'Nice Pool' 1955 Slim Aarons 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 oc...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s maritime photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the British ocean liner 'SS Queen of Bermuda' in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda.
This is an es...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1954 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American actors Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland attending a house party in Beverly Hills.
This i...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
'Racing At Baden Baden' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Racing At Baden Baden'
Spectators dine in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, Germany, September 1978.
In his words, he phot...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Kaufmann Desert House' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C print
' Kaufmann Desert House '
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for bus...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997)
enjoying...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Lake Tahoe Ladies
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Ladies
A group of young women in their bathing suits on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Editi...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Il Canille' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Il Canille' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), Printed Later
Sunbathers lounge on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo overlooking the waters off ...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Jim Kimberley At Home With Car And Boats In Palm Beach c1974 Framed
By Slim Aarons
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 13"H x 10"W
Frame Sz: 14 3/8"H x 11 1/8"W
In custom gilt bamboo frame
Original color page from Slim Aarons' iconic book "A Wonderful Time" published 1974
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1970s Slim Aarons Art
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Color
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.
40 ...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Archival Pigment
Desert House Party (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Desert House Party
1970 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. T...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 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.
Pap...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Laura Hawk at Paestrum' : Mid-Century Modern : Ancient Ruins
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Laura Hawk amid the ancient greek ruins of Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno, 1984
Laura Hawk
1984
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition ...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - All Aboard
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975.
Very large print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101.6 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Portofino - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Portofino
1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025Slim Aarons is arguably the best-known photographer of the rich and famous, although many other photographers have also taken photos of celebrities. However, Aarons stands out for having captured the 20th century’s international jet set and creating images that are at once candid and polished. Some notable people he immortalized in his images include Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Princess Grace of Monaco, Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos and Mick Jagger. Find a variety of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- 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.
- 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.