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 Official Estate Print - Poolside Backgammon
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Backgammon
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
Paper size 20 x 30" inches / 51 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collectio...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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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...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Bailey's Beach, Newport'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tennis Guests
1953 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A bather using a pool raft at Bailey's ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Underwater Drink Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Underwater Drink, 1972
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
60 x 40” / 152 x 101 cm - paper size
Estate ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ladies by the pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. From right to left, former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), unknown, Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita Baron (in white sunhat). The Linsks are the current owners of the house.
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."
Slim Aarons
Nelda and...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
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...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
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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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Jean Serpieri' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Jean Serpieri'
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of modern Greece, Decem...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - The Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - The Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club - Estate Stamped
Members of the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club prepare to go sailing in Bermuda, 1976.
(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 'beautiful people in beautiful places, doing beautiful things'.
A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C-type photograph
Limited edition to 150 only, numbered and stamped
by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Gorgeous print measuring an large 40 x 60" inches / ca 101 x 152 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.
We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations.
Trees palm trees Bermuda archipelago Bermuda UK island relaxation seaside blue green sky Bermuda islands Atlantic Ocean Hamilton Bermuda...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, C Print
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...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
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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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Zermatt Skiing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Zermatt Skiing
1968
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, M...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Palm Beach Street 1953 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
Paper size 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Brunch At Brennans
Sunday brunch at Brennan’s restaurant, New Orleans.
30 x 30" / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Portofino, Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino, Italy, 1985
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The most exclusive fishing vi...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
'Kirk Douglas In Antibes' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Kirk Douglas In Antibes'
American actor Kirk Douglas (right) prepares to go waterskiing at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, A...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Verbier Vacation, Estate Edition, Swiss Alps Mountain Snow Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss Alps, 1964: This landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holiday-makers taking in the sunset on a white snowy mountain top in Verbier, Swit...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
'Monte Mano' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Mano'
A swimmer in the seaside-style pool at architect Jacques Couëlle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, August 197...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Montecatini, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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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
40 x 40 inches
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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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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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Chalet Costi - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Chalet Costi
Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968.
Paper size 20 x 20 inches / 51 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation'
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sli...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' 1976 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eden-Roc Pool' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 15...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Brunch At Brennans
Sunday brunch at Brennan’s restaurant, New Orleans.
40 x 40" / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printe...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II' Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II'
View looking down the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, 1960. Opened in 1890, the covered arcade is on the northern side of the Piazza ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Palm Beach Idyll Official Estate Edition Super Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll'
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA (Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the p...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Palm Springs Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Springs Party'
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in th...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Pellicano Beach' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pellicano Beach'
Boats at a jetty by the beach at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Marbella Club (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Marbella Club
C print
1976
The swimming pool of the Marbella Club in Andalucia looks out over the sea, 1976.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certif...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Porto Ercole
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boating in Porto Ercole, Italy, August 1969.
Gorgeous print measuring 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limited to 150 prints only (regardless of paper size)
Hand-numbered in ink on the front
Blind embossed Slim Aarons signature
Certificate of authenticity included
Unframed archival pigment print (Full framing service available – please enquire)
Worldwide shipping from London, England, issued by The Slim Aarons Estate
Available Sizes & Pricing:
10x10” / 10x12” $1,800
12x12” / 12x16” $2,400
16x16” / 16x20” $3,000
20x20” / 20x24” $3,600
20x30” $3,900
30x30” / 30x40” $4,200
40x40” / 40x60” $5,400
48x48” / 50x50“ $5,700
48x72” $6,100
60x60” (Giclee) $6,500
Custom sizes available – please enquire.
About Slim Aarons:
Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s. His work immortalized Hollywood icons, European aristocrats, and global socialites, shaping the aesthetic of aspirational living. Each Estate Edition print is an official release from the Slim Aarons Archive, selected for its exceptional quality and historical significance.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II, earning a Purple Heart. Reflecting on that experience, he famously remarked that the only beach worth landing on was one adorned with beautiful people...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
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
Pool at Lake Tahoe, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sierra Nevada Mountains
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. Majestic pine trees frame the bright turquoise pool, and vintage holidaymakers are shaded by fringed pastel umbrellas. The Sierra Nevada mountains rise in the background over Lake Tahoe.
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
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
'Hotel Du Palais Biarritz' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Du Palais Biarritz' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The curved beachside pool at the Hotel du Palais Biarritz, Biarritz, France, September 1985.
Produced from...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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C Print, Color
'Unghia Marina' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Unghia Marina'
A group of people stand on a terrace, at the Unghia Marina on the island of Capri, Italy, in September 1989. Trees dot the side of the marina while a flagpole rise...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
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 waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riv...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas 1957 Slim Aarons Estate Print
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957.
Paper siz...
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1950s Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Kennedy and Friends' Midcentury Modern Photography - Flight
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Shirley Rogan Ellis and Betty LoSavio at Montego Bay Airport, Jamaica. 1953
Kennedy and Friends
1953
Fiber print
Estate signature stamped and ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Silver Gelatin
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
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
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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
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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
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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...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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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...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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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...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Digging For Clams 1960 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Digging For Clams
Mrs Hans Estin watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay, circa 1960.
Silver gelatin print
Slim Aarons silver gelatin...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Skiers At Verbier' 1964 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiers At Verbier'
1964: Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland.
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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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
'Hotel Punta Tragara' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Punta Tragara' 1974 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The Hotel Punta Tragara on Capri, Italy, August 1974.
Produced from the original t...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Poolside Style' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Style'
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
'Monte Carlo' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo'
The swimming pool of a villa in Monte Carlo, Monaco, August 1970.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Leisure and Fashion, Colony Hotel, Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman watching a poolside fashion show at the Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
Slim Aarons
Leisure and Fashion
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Slim Aa...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
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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 waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riv...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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 ...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Dixieland Jam in Rome' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An impromptu concert in Rome with American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971), Earl 'Fatha' Hines (1905 - 1983) on piano and Jack Teagarden (1905 - 1964) on trom...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Cranmore Mountain Skiers, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
This is an estat...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Courchevel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Courchevel
1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A ski resort in Courchevel in the French Alps, circa 1970.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certi...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Hotel Taormina, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Hotel Taormina, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage depiction of the seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Visual Description: This iconic photograph features rugged a swimming pool and sunkissed rocks alongside boats in sparkling turquoise water. More geological formations can be seen below the surface of the sea.
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...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Milan Cathedral 1960 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Milan Cathedral
The duomo or cathedral in the Piazza del Duomo, Milan, 1960.
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
P...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.