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
Pool at Las Brisas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater view of the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Nice Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nice Pool, 1955
Archival pigment print
60 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American writer C.Z. Guest (M...
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1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Florence 'Flo' Pritchet' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and American fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer at a poolside luncheon, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
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Lilly Puli...
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Slim Aarons, Lillian Crawford Palm Beach - Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lillian Crawford poolside, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970.
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Lillian Crawford Palm Beach, 1970
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons, Poolside Pairs at the Kaufmann Desert House (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs, Kaufmann Desert House
1970
C Print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, desig...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Lilly Pulitzer And Florence 'Flo' Pritchet' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and American fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer at a poolside luncheon, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
Slim Aarons
Lilly Puli...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print.
Printed 2024.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition.
Produced util...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In St. Moritz, Palace Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing In St. Moritz
1983
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace H...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph
This late 1970s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features A...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Alice In Acapulco, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relax with friends in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1966. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Plantation Cocoyer
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Plantation Cocoyer
People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981.
Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print.
Printed 2024.
Slim Aarons Estate Editi...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Hotel Taormina Pool Sicily, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sea Rocky Shore
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph features a seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons in August 1975.
In this classic Sicilian seas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Skiing In Seefeld' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing In Seefeld
1985 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
A group of men and women go cross-country sk...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons El Venero - Marbella 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.
Gorgeous print measuring a very large 40 x 30" inches / ca 101 x 76 cm's.
(printed on a 40 x 30"...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Laguna Beach 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Beach
Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970.
40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aaro...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Police Patrolman
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills police patrolman Lee R. Hathaway leaning on the roof of his car to write a report, Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, 1952
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" in...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Truman Capote at Home' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Truman Capote at Home
1960's
C print
Estate signature ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Dining Al Fresco On Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Dining Al Fresco On Capri
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umbe...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
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.
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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'Bahamas Windsurfing' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Bahamas Windsurfing' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Windsurfing off Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, April 1983.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of a...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print, Color
Caleta Beach, Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A high angle view of Caleta Beach (aka Morning Beach) in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961. The Hotel Boca Chica can be seen to the right.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
2...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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'Palm Beach Habituees' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Habituees' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
1970: Mr and Mrs Guillermo Aguilera at Palm Beach.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of aut...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print, Color
NEW Slim Aarons 'Polo Player Close Up' Mid-century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A close-up portrait shot of a polo player in Palm Beach, Florida, 1977.
Slim Aarons
Polo Player Close Up
1970
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz
American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Print...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, "Sunbathing in Arizona" (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman sunbathing nude by Tom Darlington's pool in Carefree, Arizona, April 1967.
Slim Aarons
Sunbathing in Arizona
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'George Hamilton' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'George Hamilton'
American actor George Hamilton holidays in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1977.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collect...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Abaco Islander 1986 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Abaco Islander
Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancestor Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, founding Hope Town...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Kirk Douglas In Antibes' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Kirk Douglas In Antibes' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
American actor Kirk Douglas (right) prepares to go waterskiing at the Hotel du C...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Gloria Schiff at Lyford Cay' : Mid-Century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, 1963
Gloria Schiff
1963
C print
Estate sign...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Saint-Tropez Boucherie' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A boucherie on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Slim Aarons
St-Tropez Boucherie
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
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 *
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Internal: Vintage Saint-Tropez, Vintage French Riviera photography...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess On Deck
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess on Deck
Countess Gioia Gaetani-Lovatelli relaxes on deck during a yachting holiday in Porto Rotondo, 1982.
Paper Size very large 72 x ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street 1953 Slim Aarons
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity suppli...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Lounging in Gstaad' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961.
SLIM AARONS
Lounging in Gstaad
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Flo Smith And Friends' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American fashion editor Florence 'Flo' Pritchett Smith (left) and Dolly O'Brien (centre) with a friend in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Flo Smith And Friends
1955
Fi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Pool On Amalfi Coast - 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.
Paper size 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Boating In Antigua' : Mid-Century Modern Photography : Seaside
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American actor Hugh O'Brian (left) hoists the sail on a dinghy, Antigua, West Indies, 1961.
Boating in Antigua
1961
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Acrylic Polymer, Lambda
Poolside Party, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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
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.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
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Poolside Party...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Sunbathing In Antibes 1976 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Antibes, 1976
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France.
60x40” / 101x152 cm - paper size
Estate Stampe...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Fountain Of Shame, Piazza Pretoria, Palermo'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Fountain Of Shame
1975
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The Fountain of Shame, by Florentine ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons - Palm beach street - estate stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street by Slim Aarons
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
How typically 'Slim style' this photograph is. Beautiful and iconic 1950's c...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Skiing in St. Mortiz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace Hotel sleigh on Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1983
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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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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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Catherine Wilke in Capri (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri, 1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Sl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Acapulco Villa, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph on the Pacific Coast
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spe...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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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
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Reflections
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150).
Holiday makers relaxing by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
This photograph ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Earl Levy’s Castle
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Earl Levy’s Castle - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Trident Castle, the home of Earl Levy in Port Antonio, Jamaica, March 1993
(Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'.
A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C Type photograph (unframed).
Limited edition to 150 only
numbered and stamped
by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 60" inches / ca 101.6 x 152.4 cm’s paper size.
Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only.
Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source.
FRAMING:
Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service.
If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote.
We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations.
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90s 1990s early 90s Jamaica West Indies Trident Castle Jamaica Now owned by Jamaican billionaire Michael Lee...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print, Color
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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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
French Bath
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Joyce Pallardy relaxes at the Villa Macopa, the home of Mrs Andre Hammel in St Tropez, August 1977.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects i...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print
Paraglider, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young blonde woman preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco.
This is an estate stampe...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Relaxing in Lech
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Relaxing in Lech
A group of people sitting in the sun at the Gasthof Post hotel in the Austrian ski resort of Lech, 1960.
Paper Size 24x20 inch...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Patsy Pulitzer 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Patsy Pulitzer
Patsy Pulitzer relaxing by a pool in Palm Beach, Florida.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Produced utilisi...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Underwater Drink' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Underwater Drink' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Produced ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Private Transport
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...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
All Mine, Lake Worth, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Wort...
Category
1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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