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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Artist: Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In Sugarbush Vermont'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In Vermont, 1963
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, March 1963.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons : Eden Roc Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Eden Roc Pool
1976 (printed later)
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Guests by the pool ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aa...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Palermo Pool, Estate Edition (with notes from Taormina)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palermo Pool, is a genuine Slim Aarons Estate Edition photograph. This iconic image vividly captures a shimmering swimming pool and sun-kissed stone and gardens, beside boats navigating the sparkling turquoise waters of Palermo. Adding to the image's depth and allure are the geological formations subtly visible beneath the sea's surface. This midcentury masterpiece offers a unique glimpse into Aarons' ability to blend nature and lifestyle in his photography.
Former description from the Slim Aarons archive: Slim Aarons' Hotel Taormina, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage depiction of a swimming pool in Taormina, Sicily, 1975.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Saint-Tropez, France is a glamorous vacation destination west of Nice and east of Marseille in the Var...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giacomo and Stefania Mantegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como, 1983. Brilliant green trees contrast with the vivid orange, reds and turquoise of the architecture. Four boats can are afloat on the deep blue of the lake.
Slim Aarons
Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
Printed Later
Certificate of Authenticity included
Collector will get the next number in the edition
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Now in his 70s, Giacomo Mantegazza...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Monaco Grand Prix (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
British racing driver James Hunt (1947 - 1993) on the grid at the Monaco Grand Prix, 22nd May 1977.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Culinary Heights
1987 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bate...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and sta...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Snowmass Village (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Snowmass Village, 1972
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in March 1968.
...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stam...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tropical Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Aut...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Holiday in Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Tropical Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Aut...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slope...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Swimmer and Sunbather (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at Lake Tahoe, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
Estate stamped and hand numbered ed...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Ice Bar in Lech, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
C...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Portofino Villa'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino Villa
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the C...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
'Villa Vera Acapulco' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The bar at the Villa Vera Hotel Spa and Racquet Club in Acapulco, January 1968
This was printed later.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authentici...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Private Island, Philippines' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Private Island, Philippines
1973
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Guests relax on the bea...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Bahamas Signpost''
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Bahamas Signpost
1964
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A signpost in Nassau points the way to...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christian de Sica And Elsa Martinelli in Gstaad'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christian de Sica and Elsa Martinelli
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
I...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Pool at Lake Tahoe - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Lake Tahoe Trip, Estate Edition Photograph, Red, Green, White Canoes Zephyr Cove
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. Three young woman are pictured in their red, turquoise and white canoes in the sunshine. Zephyr Cove.
Lake Tahoe Canoes / Lake Tahoe Trip
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Framing options available
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 *
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. It’s known for its beaches and ski resorts. On the southwest shore, Emerald Bay State Park contains the 1929 Nordic-style mansion Vikingsholm. Along the lake’s northeast side, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park includes Sand Harbor Beach and Spooner Lake, a gateway to the long-distance Tahoe Rim Trail.
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers waiting for the c...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons : Surfing Brothers
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930's.
Esta...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Sea Drive, Estate Edition, Seascape Photograph with Amphicar in Nassau
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1967—Slim Aarons captures film producer Kevin McClory taking his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an Amphicar across the harbour at Nassau. Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included.
Slim Aarons
Sea Drive
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Three sizes available.
Framing options available, 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.
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 *
Kevin O'Donovan McClory (8 June 1924[1] – 20 November 2006) was an Irish screenwriter, film producer, and film director. McClory was best known for producing the James Bond film Thunderball.
Internal: Vintage Nassau, Vintage Yachting, Vintage Boating, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Sport Photography, Coastal, Vintage Sixties, 1960s, 60s photography...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Monte Carlo Riva'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Monte Carlo Riva
1969 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco,...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer Fashions' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three women wearing designs by Lilly Pulitzer take a break from shooting during a fashion shoot for Pulitzer at 400 South Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, Florida, 1964.
Slim Aarons
Lilly ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Italy, 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.
Slim Aarons
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como
Slim Aarons...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Pool In St Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at a villa in St Tropez, France, circa 1970.
Slim Aarons
St Tropez Pool
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Saint-Tropez Boucherie, French Riviera, Estate Edition Photograph, 1971
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Discover the quintessence of French Riviera charm in Slim Aarons' iconic photograph, 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie,' on Rue des Commercants, Saint-Tropez, 1971. This image is a beautiful i...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Francine Brandt (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961.
Slim Aarons
Francine Brandt
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping t...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
Category
1950s Surrealist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
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Esther Williams Poolside, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams, in a Florida swimming pool, 1955
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary deal...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Laguna Beach Surfers'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Laguna Beach Surfers
1970
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Three surfers with their boards at...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Promenade' 1961 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Promenade'
A fashion show at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
Paper Size 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Leonard Dalsemer - Limited Edition Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Digital
Slim Aarons Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke,
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Printed Later.
Cath...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Sotogrande' : Mid-Century Modern Photography : Poolside
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside in Sotogrande
1975
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Colourful Crew, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Gasthof Post Pool, 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...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lake Tahoe Ladies
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lake Tahoe Ladies, 1959
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of...
Category
1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Lake Tahoe Couple (Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Poolside)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A couple relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Relaxing at Lake Tahoe
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Additional sizes offered:
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
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 tags: Lake Tahoe; Slim Aarons; architecture poolside, mountain, pool and sky; mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage tahoe...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Venice Gondolas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gondolas moored in Venice, 1957. In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Maggiore island.
Slim Aarons
Venice Gondolas
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printe...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Swimmer and Sunbather, Tahoe, Estate Edition. Vintage 50s California Nevada line
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and the line on the bottom of the pool marks the state boundary. It was owned by Frank Sinatra from 1960 to 1968.
Slim Aarons
Swimmer and Sunbather
Cal Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
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 *
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Vintage Sport, Midcentury Modern, Vintage Lake Tahoe, Vintage Glamour, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Cal Neva Lodge, American Realist, Midcentury sport, Midcentury Glamour, California Nevada State Line, Midcentury Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Trip, Vintage Watersports...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Kaufmann Desert House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann and now owned by Nelda Linsk (right, in yell...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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 Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lake Tahoe Trip, Estate Edition Photograph, Red, Green, White Canoes Zephyr Cove
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. Three young woman are pictured in their red, turquoise and white canoes in the sunshine. Zephyr Cove.
Lake Tahoe Canoes / Lake Tahoe Trip
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Framing options available
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 *
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. It’s known for its beaches and ski resorts. On the southwest shore, Emerald Bay State Park contains the 1929 Nordic-style mansion Vikingsholm. Along the lake’s northeast side, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park includes Sand Harbor Beach and Spooner Lake, a gateway to the long-distance Tahoe Rim Trail.
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1987
Slim Aarons
Il Pellicano Pool, 1987
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Esta...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tania Mallet
1960, Printed Later
C print
20 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Caption: Actress Tania Mall...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Pool at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, 1982 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
Category
20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons ' Palm Springs Party'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Desert House Party, 1970. (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
A poolside party at a desert house, desig...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Comte d'Arcangues' 1986 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Comte d'Arcangues'
1986, Michel, Comte d'Arcangues, against a wall of Sevres and Compagnie des Indes porcelains at his chateau d'Arcangues, Biarritz, France.
30 x 20" inches / 7...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Yacht Holiday' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Yacht Holiday' by Slim Aarons
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marbella, 1967.
A group of bronzed young women captured from the back are seen enjoying the ...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Snorkelling In Malta, Estate Edition, Aerial Seascape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s aerial landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta.
This is an estate stamped ...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Swimmer' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A topless swimmer in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Saint-Tropez Seafront, 1970
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cer...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
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.