Slim Aarons Black and White 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
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
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Slim Aarons Style 'New York Debutante'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
New York Debutante
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
American model Jean Patchett weari...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Patsy Pulitzer, Private Transport
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Patsy Pulitzer rummag...
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1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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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...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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'Palm Bay Club' 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Bay Club' 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A young woman at the Palm Bay Club, Miami, Florida, USA, circa 1965. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Easter Egg Hunt' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Children pose with baskets of toy eggs during the annual Easter egg hunt at the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1960.
Slim Aarons
Easter Egg Hunt
1960
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Capucine 1957
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capucine
French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 – 1990) fanning herself at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
Paper size 20 x 16" inches / 51 x 4...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons 'The Carlton Hotel' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Cricketers on the Pitch, Belfast, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features cricketers on the pitch, Belfast, 1962.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edit...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Spectators At Lord’s' Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Spectators At Lord’s' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Spectators at a cricket match between the public schools of Eton and Harrow at Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, 1955.
P...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Three Sisters' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Shoppers on the pavement outside a Three Sisters boutique in Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Three Sisters
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 1...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - French Polo Crowd 1950 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - French Polo Crowd - Oversize
A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
silver gelatin print
paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
unframed
printed later
edition size 150 only
certificate of authenticity supplied
numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
b/w black and white horse horses equestrian sport sports crowd busy 1950s 50s fashion...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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'Beauty Queen' 1955- Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Beauty Queen' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein (1870 – 1965), third from right, at her Park Avenue, New York apartment with her hus...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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Slim Aarons - The Carlton Hotel - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Carlton Hotel by Slim Aarons
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. Printed Later.
Another gorgeous and typically 'Slim' p...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons 'King of Jazz'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
King of Jazz
1949 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
1949: Photographers taking pictures of A...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
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
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Estate signature stamped and ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White 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 Black and White Photography
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Golf Spectators' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A man wearing a bathrobe stands among the spectators at the Seminole Golf Club, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Golf Spectators
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles Aja...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing 1955 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons print
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Produced utilising the only or...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Pulitzer Pool Party' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests relax by the swimming pool at Lilly Pulitzer's pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961. Lilly Pulitzer is seen at centre (wearing headscarf) on the lap of her husband, Pet...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Elizabeth Campbell Parks, New York, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Phot
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Elizabeth Campbell Parks and Leslie, her daughter with the photographer and filmmaker Gor...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Lambda
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Jazz Scooter: Louis Armstrong and Lucille Brown in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Slim Aarons
Jazz S...
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Three Sisters' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Shoppers on the pavement outside a Three Sisters boutique in Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Three Sisters
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 1...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Palm Bay Club
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young woman at the Palm Bay Club, Miami, Florida, USA, circa 1965
Slim Aarons
Palm Bay Club
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Num...
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Saks Fifth Ave, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Saks Fifth Ave, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue cat...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and s...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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NY Lights
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A set of traffic lights on Park Avenue in New York City.
Slim Aarons
NY Lights
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate....
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Las Vegas Luxury
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane enjoys waiter service in the pool at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim ...
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Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Lambda
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Lambda
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Lambda
Last-minute Adjustments, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman has last-minute adjustments made to her dress at a debutante ball.
This is a...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Lambda
Prado Visitors, Madrid, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Fox Hunt' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hunt followers on horseback among a pack of dogs during a fox hunt, Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Fox Hunt
1955
Fiber Print
Estate signature stamped and h...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
NEW: Slim Aarons 'Safari Party at Romanoff's' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at a fancy dress party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1950.
Slim Aarons
Safari Party at Romanoff's, 1950
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stampe...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Seaplane At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida.
Slim Aarons
Seaplane At Palm Beach...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Lucky For Some
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
paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm
unframed
printed later
edition size 150 only
certificate of authenticity supplied
numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
b/w black and white 1940 40s fashion...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young skier prefers to carry his skis down the slope in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Ed...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pulitzer On The Beach - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pulitzer On The Beach
Patsy Pulitzer at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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New Year at Romanoff's
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
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1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young skier prefers to carry his skis down the slope in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Seaplane At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida.
Slim Aarons
Seaplane At Palm Beach...
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Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing Essentials 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - New England Skiing Essentials
A couple prepare for a day’s skiing in New Hampshire, 1955.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
silver gelatin print
paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm
unframed
printed later
edition size 150 only
certificate of authenticity supplied
numbered in ink & blind embossed stamped Slim Aarons signature on front
Authorised and issued by the Slim Aarons Archive & Estate c/o The Getty Archive London England and produced utilizing the original transparency.
b/w black and white winter...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'New England Skiing Essentials' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'New England Skiing Essentials' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
A couple prepare for a day’s skiing in New Hampshire, 1955.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Silver Gelatin Pr...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Digging For Clams - 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.
Slim Aarons archival pigment print
Printed Later...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Archival Pigment
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 Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Seaplane At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) leaning against a seaplane belonging to the Everglades Flying Service, at Palm Beach, Florida.
Slim Aarons
Seaplane At Palm Beach...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955.
Silver Gelatin Fibre Print...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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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 Black and White Photography
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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
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estat...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Digging For Clams, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Shaw watches her children digging for clams at low tide on Black Beach, Massachusetts Bay.
Slim Aarons
Digging For Clams
Bl...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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'Ski Instructors Only' 1955- Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Ski Instructors Only' 1955
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked ‘Ski Instructors Only’ in New Hampshire, 1955.
(Photo by Slim...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
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 ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Saks Fifth Ave, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
'Junior Skier (New England Skiing)' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Junior Skier (New England Skiing)' 1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A freckled member of the Junior Skiing Program in North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955.
Silver Gelatin Fib...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons, Saks Fifth Avenue Fashion Show
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An evening dress being modelled at a fashion show held by Saks of Fifth Avenue, New York. The audience, who are in evening dress, are also being wined and dined, 1955.
Estate stampe...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Lambda
Saks Fifth Ave, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue cat...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
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...
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1960s American Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - NY Apartments - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
NY Apartments
A block of apartments on Park Lane in New York. The building is stepped so that the design includes balconies for flats on each floor.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine f...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
'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...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An unknown guest at a New Year's Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and s...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Palm Bay Club 1965 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Palm Bay Club - Oversize
A young woman at the Palm Bay Club, Miami, Florida, USA, circa 1965.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
silver gelatin print
paper size 40...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Cannon Drive 1952
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannon Drive
Cars driving along Cannon Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
Paper size 16 x 16" inches / 40 x 40 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Four Kings of Hollywood, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A series of four shots of film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoying a joke at...
Category
1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
Decked In Finery, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An unknown guest at a New Year's Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and s...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
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