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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
to
972
2,609
1,322
1,516
1,384
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
7,692
112
100
1,913
2,465
2,017
862
112
5,008
5
4
1
3,274
2,459
2,065
5,157
2,644
1,832
1,787
1,347
1,287
1,152
1,047
964
852
812
811
587
567
517
507
497
460
451
419
3,829
3,448
3,448
2,190
1,474
7,804
5,189
2,504
1,292
1,187
17
5,573
4,678
3,126
Artist: Slim Aarons
Jackie K, Estate Edition Portrait Photograph, Classic Pearls, Jacqueline Kennedy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic photography of young Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy, at a 'April in Paris' ball with classic pearls, red lipstick, a white sati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole Beach' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A quiet stretch of coastline in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, July 1991
Slim Aarons
'Porto Ercole Beach'
Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal:
Slim Aarons, Porto Ercole, Italy, Il Pelicano, Vintage Glamour, 70s photography...
Category
1990s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Harbour Island' 1970 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Harbour Island' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970.
Paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm
Printed in 2024 - produced from the or...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes
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,...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Villa D'Este' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Villa D'Este' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Boats on the waters near the Queen's Pavilion, the east wing of the Villa d'Este, on Lake Como, in Cernobbio, Italy, in...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Apres Ski' 1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Apres Ski' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter
in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Paper size 6...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Princess Bianca, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg at her Gstaad chalet, 1985.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Digging for Clams (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, circa 1960
Slim Aarons
Digging for Clams on Black Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edit...
Category
1960s American Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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
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...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Penthouse Pool' 1961 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Penthouse Pool' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aa...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
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
48x48 inches
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...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Vacation, 1964
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
50 x 50"
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain t...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Lido Life'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lido Life
1957 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Governing Couple
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Reagan and her husband film star and Governor of California, Ronald Reagan (later the 40th President of the USA) in Acapulco, mexico.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
'Sea Drive' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sea Drive' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1967. Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an ‘Amphicar’ across the harbour at...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to right: Adam Butler, Reutie Bu...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Positano Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979.
Slim Aarons
Positano Beach
1979 (printed later)
C print
Estate st...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
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 ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, foun...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Leisure In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Leisure In Antibes
1969 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine, 1957
Fiber print
30 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons Penthouse Pool Official Limited Estate Edition Supersize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Penthouse Pool' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
Chromogenic C print
Printed this year
Slim Aarons Est...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Taylor, Todd And Family
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contact strip depicting British-born American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - 2011) at an airfield, (possibly Croydon Airport, London) with her third husband, American producer Mi...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool
1970 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing' 1955 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'New England Skiing'
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 (Photo by Slim Aarons, printed later)
This photograph epitom...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Chateau Saint-Martin
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Chateau Saint-Martin
The Chateau Saint-Martin, a luxury hotel in Vence on the Cote d'Azur, France, 1986. The building was once a Commanderie of th...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Poolside Pairs, Estate Edition, Modernist Architecture, Palm Springs Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs, 1970: This coveted photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women in stylish midcentury clothing in front of the turquoise swimming pool o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Culinary Heights
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Culinary Heights
Jill Council relaxes with a drink by a swimming pool in Bermuda, 1969.
Paper Size 24x20 inche...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc Estate Edition Photograph: Poolside in Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers enjoy the sun by the pool at the Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, 1976. Aarons' iconic photograph depicts the legendary hotel made famous by Fitzgerald's Tender is the...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neu...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pool On Amalfi Coast (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984.
Slim Aarons
Pool On Amalfi Coast (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1984
Chromogenic lambda print
Est...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Porto Ercole
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boating in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1969
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 20" inches / ca 76.2 x 50.8 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim A...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Capote At Home' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capote At Home' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Catherine Wilke (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Catherine Wilke, 1980, Printed Later
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers a...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print
Eva Gabor, Estate Edition Photograph, Midcentury Classic Hollywood, Vintage Pink
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
TV and film actress Eva Gabor takes a coffee in an unfinished bedroom in Bay Roc Hotel, Montego, Jamaica, 1950. In this classic image of vintage mid-century ...
Category
1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Neo-Classical Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition 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 paren...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Lucky For Some' 1949- Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lucky For Some' 1949
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
1949: Sicilian-born gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano (1897 – 1962) walking down a street in his native Sicily, followed by local children mimicking his posture.
Whilst in prison between 1936 and 1946, he founded the Crime Syndicate of Mafia families and reorganised crime in America.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Silver Gelatin Print
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Archive stamped and numbered in ink on the front
Paper size 16 x 16 / 40 x 40 cm
Printed 2020
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE :
12 x 12 / 30 x 30 cm
16 x 16 / 40 x 40 cm
20 x 20 / 50 x 50 cm
30 x 30 / 76 x 76 cm
40 x 40 / 102 x 102 cm
50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
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.
b/w black and white 1940 40s fashion...
Category
1940s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Keep Your Cool' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter
in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Paper size 4...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, Principe Dom Pedro De Orleans E Braganca, grandson of Brazilian emperor Pedro II. He is pictured at...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leonard Dalsemer 1974 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Esta...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Between Sea And Sky' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Between Sea And Sky' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Ingrid Morath sunbathes by a swimming pool next to the sea in Acapulco, 1961. Ingrid was born in Rio de Janeiro ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Julie London (Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1957: Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authe...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Model Boat Sailing, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1940s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York Cit...
Category
1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slima Aarons Estate Edition - Neo-Classical Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Neo-Classical Pool - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
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 (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 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.
Keywords
fashion 80s 1980s late 80s summer life family life hot summer beach holiday house blue light dark blue blue blue sky Neo-Classical house neo-Classical architecture palm trees white...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Poolside Bar
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Guests at a poolside bar at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980
Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped ...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Polo Party - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Polo Party
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to right: Adam Butl...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Slim Aarons
'Porto Ercole'
Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, Tuscany, Italy
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal:
Slim Aarons, Porto Ercole, Italy, Il Pelicano, Vintage Glamour, 70s...
Category
1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Host, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann. At far left is Lita Baron. Helen Dzo Dzo is at centre, right in a white crochet outfit...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Backstage At La Scala 1948 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Backstage At La Scala - Oversize
A chorus girl reads a movie magazine in a dressing room at La Scala opera house, Milan, Nov...
Category
1940s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Olden - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Olden
People carry their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Chromogenic print
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Please note that thi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, a party of skiers adjourning for drinks at Squaw Valley, California, in 1961, one year after th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
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.