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
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition. From the Poolside Series
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 designer Raymond Loewy (189...
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Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waitress in Stowe'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slopes, carrying her skis on the way to a run, circa 1960. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons.
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'The Butlers' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Butlers' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
March 1971: Allan and Shirley Butler beside the pool at their home 'Jacaranda' in the Bahamas. His wife is the daughter ...
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Slim Aarons, 'Poolside in Arizona' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973.
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Poolside in Arizona
1973. (printed later)
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Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
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Sir Run Run Shaw, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features philanthropist and entertainment mogul Sir Run Run Shaw surrounded by the stars of Hong Ko...
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Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy. August 1973.
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
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The Ali Children, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
August 1980: In Spanish style riding clothes from l to r; TRH Princess Rajwa Ali, Princess Basma Ali and Prince Bin Ali. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
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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.
Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print.
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Neo-Classical Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Neo-Classical Pool
Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985.
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Slim Aarons 'La Concha Beach Club' 1975 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'La Concha Beach Club'
Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
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La Barranca
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis' villa in Acapulco, January 1971.
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Paradise Island, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Versailles Gardens and the French Cloister at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, opposite Nassau on the Bahamas, May 1968.
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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
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'Helen & Nelda by the Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Helen & Nelda by the Pool' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo (left) talking to Nelda Linsk, wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the...
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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.
Photo by Slim Aarons
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast 1984 - Oversize
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.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
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Slim Aarons - Family Snapper 1959 - Official Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Family Snapper 1959, Slim Aarons
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Babe Paley (Mrs William Paley) by the pool. Her husband, William Paley is snapping the photographer at their cottage, Round Hill...
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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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Poolside Party 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Party
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk’s desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann.
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'Playboy Party' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Playboy Party' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner, December 1961.
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Catherine Wilke, Capri, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Capr...
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Slim Aarons 'Funk In Tuscany' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Funk In Tuscany' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Italian fashion designer, model, and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Itali...
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Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke, 1980
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy.
40x30” / 76...
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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.
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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.
Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print.
Printed 2024.
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Slim Aarons 'Skiers At Verbier' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers At Verbier
1964
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
1964: Skiers relax in deckchairs on the...
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Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rudulph Ellis Carter holding a picnic in Newport in 1987.
This is an estate stamped and ...
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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...
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Pool on the Amalfi Coast, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984
Slim Aarons
Pool on the Amalfi Coast
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'Lillian Crawford' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lillian Crawford' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970.
Produced from the original transpare...
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Buddhist Nuns
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Four Buddhist nuns in traditional dress outside a school near Inle Lake, in the Taunggyi District of Shan State, Myanmar (Burma), May 1971.
Gorgeous print measuring 24 x 20" inches...
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Catherine Wilke, Capri, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Capr...
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'On The Slopes Of Sugarbush' 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'On The Slopes Of Sugarbush' 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A group of people relaxing at the chalet of stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr, at the Sugarbush Mountain ski r...
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'All Aboard' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'All Aboard' 1975
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Friends board a river boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
This photograph epitomise...
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Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
20 x 30 inches
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Gloria Schiff And Consuelo Crespi, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pilar Crespi and her sister, Italian countess Consuelo Crespi (1928-2010) in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1968.
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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...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Esther Williams, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Esther Williams, American aquatic actress and former swimming champion, relaxing in a F...
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Arturo Pani's Villa
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The swimming pool at Arturo Pani's villa, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968.
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool At Lake Tahoe - Oversize C print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool At Lake Tahoe
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Chromogenic print
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
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Acapulco Rocks
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pop And Society 1968 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pop And Society - Oversize
From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (o...
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Slim Aarons 'Speedboat Landing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1973.
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate stamped and hand nu...
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Pool Golf' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A man holds a golf club poolside while American actor Lee Kinsolving chats with his partner, Lillian Kinsolving (née Crawford), in the pool at the home of Albin and Margo Lykes Holde...
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Slim Aarons 'Acapulco Villa' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Acapulco Villa' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Las Brisas, the home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, January 1968.
From 'A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons'
(Photo b...
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'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
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Catherine Wilke 1980 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke, 1980
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri.
16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by S...
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Portofino - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Portofino - Oversize
1985, The most exclusive fishing village in Italy, Portofino, on Italy’s Ligurian coast.
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Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.
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Private Transport, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and s...
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes 1976
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes,...
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Kings of Hollywood (Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Van Heflin
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photograph is finally available again, for the first time in over a year.
In this classic black and white photograph, film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills.
Kings of Hollywood / New Year's at Romanoff's
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
16 x 20 inches
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Purchaser 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.
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 *
Founded by Michael Romanoff (born Hershel Geguzin, 1890-1971), Romanoff's was a popular restaurant with Hollywood stars during the 1940s and 1950s, including director Alfred Hitchcock.
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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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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.