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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
to
1
1,065
2,729
1,372
1,629
1,426
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
8,106
116
107
1,992
2,571
2,175
904
128
5,245
4
4
1
3,413
2,580
2,222
5,385
2,749
1,914
1,887
1,408
1,355
1,224
1,110
1,012
876
861
858
610
592
552
539
505
480
476
446
3,983
3,573
3,573
2,578
2,576
8,222
2,805
2,504
1,657
1,306
36
6,195
4,848
3,374
Artist: Slim Aarons
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
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Walking Up Cortina D'Ampezzo
Skiers walk up a mountain in Cortina D’Ampezzo, a ski resort in northern Italy, 1962.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Coll...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dolly Fritz (1961) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolly Fritz (1961) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Socialite Dolly Fritz,
San Francisco, 1961.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size: 16x16''
Printed L...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Having A Topping Time - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Having A Topping Time
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach.
48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by S...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Eden Roc Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden Roc Hotel
1976 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: The luxurious Hotel du Cap Eden Roc at Cap d'Antibe...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Palace Hotel in Gstaad, ...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Palace Hotel (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palace Hotel (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The Palace Hotel in Gstaad,
1961.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Pap...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'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
Palermo (formerly Taormina Pool), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This rich, vibrant Slim Aarons Estate Edition photograph depicts a swimming pool at the glamorous Villa Igiea, in the Sicilian cultural, economic and tourism capital of Palermo, on t...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
'Lounging In Verbier' (Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
Faithful Couple: Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull at Leixlip Castle, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lounging In Verbier - Super Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Size 72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
Category
1960s 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 Estate Print - Skiers At Verbier - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers At Verbier
Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland.
48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
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
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
Beauty and the Beast 1959 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beauty and the Beast, 1959
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.
12 x 12” / 30 ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiers in Lech
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers line up for a hike to ski resort Zurs from Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collec...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vermont Winter (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Vermont Winter (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Students from Stowe Preparatory School track through deep snow near Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Skiers at Verbier, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 1964.
This is an est...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Estate Edition, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons
Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982.
'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons is a vibrant testa...
Category
1980s American 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
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
'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
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Olden, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Urban Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people carrying their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
'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
Pool On Amalfi Coast Italy Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool On Amalfi Coast'
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984.
Gorgeous blues in this image with the ocean and swimming pool, contrast...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pop And Society Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society 1968
From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed pa...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Verbier Vacation 1964 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Vacation
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
30 x 30” / 76 x 76 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aaron...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Village
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Village
Two fashionably attired women stand in the foreground of a snowy landscape with a helicopter on the slopes of Snowmass Village, in P...
Category
1960s 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
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
Slim Aarons 'Sea Drive' 1967 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sea Drive' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1967. Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Snowmass Gathering
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, in A...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.
72 x 48" inches / 183 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Skiers at Verbier, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 1964.
This is an est...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Poolside Chez Holder
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Chez Holder
Guests by the pool at Albin Holder’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, May 1970.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Monte Carlo' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo'
Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Pri...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Color, 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 ...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Tennis In The Bahamas - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the main group stand a second group of people talking.
Gorge...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Ladies Of Lyford Cay' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Ladies Of Lyford Cay' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons, 'The High Life in St Tropez'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
August 1977: Actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat with friends Ruth Luthi and Mike Belami, during a stay in St Tropez.
Slim Aarons
The High Life
1977. (printed l...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
C Print
'A Friendly Chat' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'A Friendly Chat'
A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 5...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Backgammon on the beach at Biarritz, France
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon on the beach at Biarritz, France, 1960
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Backgammon...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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 - 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
Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the pier at the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Venice Vacation
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, 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.
This artwork DOES include a certificate of authenticity from the authenticating body, the estate
Collector will get the next number in the edition
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
12 x 12 inches
$1800
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
Modern estate edition with estate blindstamp signature and hand number in lower margin
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 Venice...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
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...
Category
1950s 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
New England Child Skiing, Estate Edition, Midcentury New Hampshire Snowscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this classic black and white midcentury winter snowscape, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, a young skier prefers to carry his own skis down the slope in New Hampshire...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Gorgeous print measuring a large oversize 40 x 30" inches /...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation'
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sli...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, ;Golfing Pals' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
At the 16th hole on Pebble Beach golf course, singer and film star Bing Crosby (in red) and A Thomas Taylor, 1977
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurr...
Category
2010s American Realist Slim Aarons Art
Materials
Lambda
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.
Artists Similar to Slim Aarons
Questions About Slim Aarons Art
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025The famous photographer Slim is Slim Aarons. An American photographer, he captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach. Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books. Shop a collection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025Slim Aarons is arguably the best-known photographer of the rich and famous, although many other photographers have also taken photos of celebrities. However, Aarons stands out for having captured the 20th century’s international jet set and creating images that are at once candid and polished. Some notable people he immortalized in his images include Lauren Bacall, Tony Curtis, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Princess Grace of Monaco, Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos and Mick Jagger. Find a variety of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025The famous photographer of Palm Springs was Slim Aarons. An American photographer, he captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Palm Beach and other luxurious settings around the globe. Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death. Find a selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.