Slim Aarons Color 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
Californian Party (Slim Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Californian Party, 1955
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Belgian born actress Audrey Hepbu...
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1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stam...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Tropical Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Holiday in Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at Gelliceaux House, their home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines, February 1...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Tropical Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
February 1989: Pierre Vincent Marais holidays with friends on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Aut...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two skiers inspecting their skis on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Warren, Vermont, United States, April 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authen...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Pantz Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Laura Hawk, assistant to the Slim Aarons, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz's Marbella home, September 1st, 1985.
Slim Aarons
Marbella Pool
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.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
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: Mid-Century Vintage Marbella...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slope...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Ice Bar in Lech, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
C...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Skiing in St. Mortiz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace Hotel sleigh on Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1983
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Skiers at Verbier (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers at Verbier, 1964
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Skiers relax in deckchairs on th...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing in Bermuda, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sunbathing and swimming at a beach in Bermuda, June 1967. Bathers in colorful vintage swimsuits lounge on a white sandy beach and swim in turquoise w...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giacomo and Stefania Mantegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como.
Slim Aarons
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como
Slim Aarons...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alpine Skiing, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers waiting for the c...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Skiing Waiters, Estate Edition, midcentury glamour in Stowe, Vermont
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Waters
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 40 inches
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carrying a wine...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs (Kaufmann Desert House)
1970 (printed later)
C Print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity
Former fashion model Hel...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Spinnaker Sailing (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spinnaker sailing on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, August 1973
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldw...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Diving In: Snorkeling in Malta, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of people snorkelling off a small boat in Malta, 1959.
Visual description: In this iconic large-scale vertical photograph by Slim Aarons, holidaymakers in red, blue, yellow, and black swimsuits and flippers snorkel in sun-dappled turquoise waters off the coast of Malta in 1959.
Beyond admiring the preparation and skill required to craft a picture like this 1959 portrait of people snorkeling in...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Von Oswald House, Austria (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Von Oswald House, Austria, 1986
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people r...
Category
1980s Minimalist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Gasthof Post Pool, Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Slim Aarons
Gasthof Post Pool
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Est...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
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
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...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
El Venero 1967
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Il Pellicano Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Il Pellicano Beach, 1973
Chromogenic Lambda print
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 19...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski
1963 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
Estate stamped ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Swimmer and Sunbather, Tahoe, Estate Edition. Vintage 50s California Nevada line
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and the line on the bottom of the pool marks the state boundary. It was owned by Frank Sinatra from 1960 to 1968.
Slim Aarons
Swimmer and Sunbather
Cal Neva Lodge, Lake Tahoe
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
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 *
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Vintage Sport, Midcentury Modern, Vintage Lake Tahoe, Vintage Glamour, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Cal Neva Lodge, American Realist, Midcentury sport, Midcentury Glamour, California Nevada State Line, Midcentury Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Trip, Vintage Watersports...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Esther Williams, Poolside, Estate Edition, 1950s Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Socialites' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Socialites'
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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
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 Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Kaufmann Desert House' (Poolside Series, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for businessman Edgar J. Kaufmann and now owned by Nelda Linsk (right, in yell...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Desert House Party (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Desert House Party, 1970. (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
A poolside party at a desert house, desig...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Skiing In Vail II
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In Vail II, 1960
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA,...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Ursula Andress'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Posing At Cap Ferrat
1954
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Swiss actress Ursula Andress in It...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Oberon's Lunch - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Oberon's Lunch
Film star Merle Oberon and lunch guests at her villa, La Consentida, Acapulco. The star is second from the right facing the camera. Circa 1966.
Slim Aarons Archival ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, 'Diving In: Snorkeling in Malta' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beyond admiring the preparation and skill required to craft a picture like this 1959 portrait of people snorkeling in Malta, it's impossible to dis...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comino), Malta
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comino), Malta, July 1959
Slim Aarons
Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon (Kemmuna / Comino, Malta, 1959)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
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.
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Slim Aarons
Marietine Birnie
Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
Vintage Glamour
Mid-century Modern
Vintage Beach Photography...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This mid-1960s winter portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a blonde skier on the slopes at ...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Princess Caroline of Monaco (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Princess Caroline of Monaco, with her pet dog Tiffany, Monte Carlo 1977.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authent...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Capri Bay'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capri Bay
1958 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: 1958: Faraglioni Rocks on the Italian island of Capri.
S...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Sotogrande' : Mid-Century Modern Photography : Poolside
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside in Sotogrande
1975 (printed later)
C print
Signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate.
Caption: Bather...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Warm Weather: Marie Chantal Strikes a Pose
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Chantal Claire, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess of Denmark, strikes an extravagant pose above her sister Pia (in yellow). They are lounging in the pool of the Hotel Belair, Cap Ferrat, July 1991.
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
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Internal tags: Vintage Slim Aarons; Coastal, French Riviera, mid-century modern; vintage glamour, vintage french riviera, 1990s...
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1990s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Party Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
Slim Aarons
Poolside Party...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Hotel Il Pellicano
1980 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Poolside Service, Lyford Cay Club, Bahamas (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Service, Lake Tahoe, 1962
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A swimming pool at the Lyford Cay Club...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Portofino Villa'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino Villa
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the C...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Ski Slope In St. Moritz (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ski Slope In St. Moritz, 1963
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Skiers (bottom) on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Estate stam...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In Sugarbush Vermont'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing In Vermont, 1963
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, March 1963.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'El Dorado Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Dorado Beach
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
El Dorado Beach on the south side...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Pool At Lake Tahoe'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pool At Lake Tahoe
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the sh...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Brunch At Brennan's (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
circa 1960: Sunday brunch at Brennan's restaurant, New Orleans. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from...
Category
1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Skiing in New Hampshire
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiing in New Hampshire
C print
20 x 16 inches
Skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, circa 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
Category
1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, Marietine Birnie (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marietine Birnie, 1959
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Marietine Birnie posing with a parasol at the Inland Sea, Gozo, Malta, July 1959.
Estate stamped and hand numb...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, St Moritz Skiers (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
St Moritz Skiers, 1978
Printed Later.
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
Estate stamped and hand numbered editi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Portofino Villa'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino Villa
1977 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Po...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
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