Slim Aarons Photography
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: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1950s
Orientation: Square
Artist: Slim Aarons
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Venice Gondolas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Gondolas moored in Venice, 1957. In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Mag...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Relaxing At Lake Tahoe' 1959 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Relaxing At Lake Tahoe'
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Westin Excelsior, Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino
1957
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The Westin Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice, 1957. (...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane at the Sands' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Excelsior' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Excelsior'
The beachfront of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Mara Lane At The Sands' 1954 Official Limited Estate Edition
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, 1954.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Relaxing At Lake Tahoe' 1959 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Relaxing At Lake Tahoe'
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
40x40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'John Rawlings' 1950 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'John Rawlings'
1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 – 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Ed...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Satin Seduction' 1955 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Satin Seduction'
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin-covered bed.
40x40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stampe...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Spear Fishing In San Diego
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Spear Fishing In San Diego
A spear fisherman in a mask, snorkel and wetsuit, with two boys on a beach in San Diego, California, October 1956.
48x48" inches / 122 x 122 cm paper siz...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Street' 1953 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Street'
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Pho...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Andros Island' 1957 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Andros Island'
Friends prepare for a day snorkeling by Andros Island, Bahamas, 1957.
30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection 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 ocean...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection 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 ocean...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Las Vegas Luxury - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Las Vegas Luxury
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Style 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Ajax and Wacky on Park Avenue, New...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Boy Baron Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boy Baron
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The youngest peer in England, seven year old Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron and 10th Baronet Hesketh, ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Nice Pool'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nice Pool,
1955, Printed Later
C print
60 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Caption: American writer C.Z....
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Seaplane At Palm Beach 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Seaplane At Palm Beach
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Fl...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Poet's Paradise: T.S. Eliot, Estate Edition on Love Beach, Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Anglo-American poet and playwright, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965) at Love Beach, New Providence Island while on his honeymoon in the Bahamas, 1957.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
'New England Skiing' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Inst...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Jean Patchett For Saks Fifth Avenue, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American model Jean Patchett wearing an outfit by Saks Fifth Avenue, circa 1955. Patchett w...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Pool at Lake Tahoe (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (191...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Katharine Hepburn Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Katharine Hepburn
1953
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1953: American film star Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Sel...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Katharine Hepburn
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Katharine Hepburn
American film star Katharine Hepburn driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica.
48x48" inc...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Cannes Watersports Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports
1958
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
unframed
c type print
printe...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two women sitting outside the 'Bubble House' belonging to Joseph Reed on Southeast Venus Street, Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, circa 1955. The two Eliot Noyes designed houses w...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Montesquiou-Fezensac Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Montesquiou-Fezensac
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1957, The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac in the drawing room of her chateau, Neuilly
unframed
c type ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pool at Lake Tahoe, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sierra Nevada Mountains
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph by iconic mid-century photographer Slim Aarons depicts bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1959.
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic allure of Slim Aarons' 'Lake Tahoe Pool,' a stunning estate photograph that captures the essence of 1950s summer leisure at the Tahoe Tavern, California. This piece is a window into a bygone era, where bathers bask by a dazzling turquoise pool, framed by the towering majesty of pine trees, with the Sierra Nevada mountains and the pristine waters of Lake Tahoe forming a breathtaking backdrop.
This idyllic scene is adorned with vintage holidaymakers lounging under chic fringed pastel umbrellas, embodying the effortless style and elegance that Aarons is renowned for. The tranquil poolside setting, framed by nature's grandeur, creates a captivating contrast between serene relaxation and the wild beauty of the Californian landscape.
Slim Aarons
Pool at Lake Tahoe
Chromogenic Lambda print
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
Captured 1959, Printed later
Collector gets 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).
Internal: Lake Tahoe, vintage tahoe...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Giclée
Slim Aarons Official Estate Stamped Edition - Mara Lane Las Vegas
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Austrian actress Mara Lane posing by the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, in a red and white striped bathing costume, 1954.
40 x 40" inches / 101 ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
C.Z. And Guest (1955) Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
C.Z. And Guest (1955) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
American socialite Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest (aka C. Z. Guest, 1920 – 2003) poses with Joanne Connolly (right) ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment, Color
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...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a stand-up fondue...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print - Beverly Hills Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
"Beverly Hills Hotel" by Slim Aarons
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
Slim Aarons (born George Allen Aar...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Easter Parade' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A crowd is gathered outside the Bonwit Teller department store on Worth Avenue while a band plays opposite during the Palm Beach Easter Parade, Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beac...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
We Know Our Place (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
We Know Our Place (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A Dalmatian dog lies at the feet of Mr and Mrs John M Seabrook as they pose...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Fox Hunt' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hunt followers on horseback among a pack of dogs during a fox hunt, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Fox Hunt
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and h...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Zephyria I, Estate Edition. Monte Carlo French Riviera Speedboat Seascape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monte Carlo, 1970: This classic landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a vintage wooden and red painted speedboat carrying holidaygoers in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Chantilly Racecourse Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Chantilly Racecourse
1956
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Chantilly Racecourse in France, 1956.
unframed
c type print
printed 2023
16×16 inches - paper size
L...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing in Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women in kni...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
This ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
This ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection 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 ocean...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Color, 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Taking The Plunge Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Taking The plunge
1962
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A swimming pool at the Lyford Cay Club at Lyford Cay on New Providence Isla...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Truman Capote at Home' Photograph Print by Getty
By Slim Aarons
Located in San Rafael, CA
We are an authorized Getty Images Gallery Partner.
Slim Aarons (American, 1916-1016)
Capote at Home
C-type print on Fujicolor Cyrstal archival paper
Full sheet with margins
With em...
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2010s Contemporary Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Hobe Sound Bubble Houses' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two women sitting outside the 'Bubble House' belonging to Joseph Reed on Southeast Venus Street, Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, circa 1955. The two Eliot Noyes designed houses w...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
El Dorado Beach (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Dorado Beach (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County,
California, circa 1959.
Additional ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Staying At The Carlton (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Staying At The Carlton (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Guests at the entrance to the Carlton Hotel,
Cannes, France, 1958.
Additional Information:
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Pool Party' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests lounge by the pool at a party in Palm Beach, Florida, 1951.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Pool Party
1951
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cer...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Venice Gondolas Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Venice Gondolas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Gondolas moored in Venice, 1957. In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Mag...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Julie London Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Julie London
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel, circa 1957
unframed
c type print
pri...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pussyfooting (Dee Hartford), Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot - a mixture of Jamaican fruit juices, 1958.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Christmas Traffic (1953) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic (1953) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Red and white automobile lights on Park Avenue, New York at Christmas time.
The rear and headlights at nigh...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment, Color
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A young woman modelling for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
unframed
Silver ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachu...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slopes & Trails, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955.
This is an e...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of photography 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, purple, pink and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Slim Aarons in digital print, lambda print, laser 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 photography, so small editions measuring 7 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Joel Meyerowitz, and Rainer Schlegelmilch. Slim Aarons photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,720 and tops out at $14,000, while the average work can sell for $2,500.