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
'Yachting Trip' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Yachting Trip' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Let's Twirl
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Lets Twirl, 1954
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Film stars Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwarz) and his wife Janet Leigh ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
'The Marlboroughs' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The Marlboroughs' 1957 by Slim Aarons
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 – 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Bl...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
NEW Slim Aarons 'Via Mizner Palm Beach' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman wearing a yellow Lilly Pulitzer shift dress (left) talks to a friend while out shopping on Via Mizner, Palm Beach, Florida, 1964.
Slim Aarons
Via Mizner Palm Beach
1964
C-Pr...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
'Skiing In Vail' *newly added* SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing In Vail' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Gorgeous print measuring a Large 20x20" inches / 51 x 51 cm (printed on 20x24" paper size.)
A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C-type p...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leonard Dalsemer - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Cannes Watersports
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Esta...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print, Color
Verbier Vacation 1964 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier Vacation
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
40 x 40” / 101 x 101 cm paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aar...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - 'Il Pellicano Beach'
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Il Pellicano Beach'
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Paper size 30 x ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Penthouse Pool 1961 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Penthouse Pool
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961.
40 x 40” / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aa...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Catherine Wilke' Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catherine Wilke' Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri, 1980.
A typical 'Slim' photograph chronicling the young a...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
'Pool In Sotogrande' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool In Sotogrande' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975. (Photo by Slim Aa...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Monte Carlo Beach Club' 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo Beach Club'
Guests around the pool at the Monte Carlo Beach Club, Monaco, August 1970.
Paper size 48 x 72 inches / 122 x 183 cm
Esta...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
NEW Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Arts Festival' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Palm Beach Arts Festival in the grounds of Bethesda-by-the-Sea church, Palm Beach, Florida, 1964.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Arts Festival
1964
C-Print
Estate signature s...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Hang Gliding
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hang gliding in Kitzbuhel, Austria, 1980.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Grand Day Out' Slim Aarons (1955) Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Grand Day Out (1955) Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Art collector Chester Dale (1883 – 1962) with Charles Prescott Berdell and their wives in Palm Bea...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
'Saint Tropez' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint Tropez' Slim Aarons Estate Edition (to 150 only)
Numbered & emboss stamped on front.
Holidaymakers on the deck of yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971.
In his word...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Aluminum
'A Colourful Crew' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'A Colourful Crew' 1970
A group of colourfully dressed friends on board the Calypso clothing store owned boat, Bermuda, June 1970.
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'.
A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C-type photograph (unframed).
C Print
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Archive stamped and numbered in ink on the front
Paper size 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm
Printed 2020
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE :
72 x 48 inches / 183 x 122 cm
60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm
40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm
30 x 20 inches / 76 x 51 cm
20 x 16 inches / 51 x 41 cm
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Hotel De Paris In Monaco (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The entrance to the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1977.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Pop and Society, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1968: From left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed painting of a woma...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons - Bernard Weatherill's - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bernard Weatherill, Civic and Sporting Tailors, in New York City, July 1964.
Gorgeous print measuring an large 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Poolside Party' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Limited Edition C print HUGE 60 x 40" inches unframed.
' Poolside Party '
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, i...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print 'Motorboats In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Motorboats In Antibes' by Slim Aarons
Motorboats moored on the coast near the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
Beautiful Riva motorboats are se...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Snowmass Village' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Snowmass Village' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
Women in colourful hats at an apres ski part...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
'Pool At Las Brisas' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool At Las Brisas' 1972
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
'Pool At Las Brisas' by Slim Aarons Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Two beautiful young women in bikinis...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
'Saint Tropez' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint Tropez' Slim Aarons Estate Edition (to 150 only)
Numbered & emboss stamped on front.
Holidaymakers on the deck of yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971.
In his word...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Aluminum
Don Giovanni (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Don Giovanni (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Don Giovanni, the son of Prince Aldobrandini rides his favourite Shetland pon...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Dolores Guinness in Porto Cervo (1965) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Guinness in Porto Cervo (1965) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 – 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smere...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features students from Sto...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons - Klosters 1963 - EstateStamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Klosters, 1963
Skiers walk past the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters and along the snow covered road carrying skis on their shoulders. The road is lined with classic and vintage c...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside In Arizona' 1973 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Arizona'
Guests by the pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973.
Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 51 x 76 c...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Fan Mail (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Fan Mail (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts o...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a helicopter arriving at a mo...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Outdoor Dining (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Outdoor Dining (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Diners at an outdoor restaurant,
San Diego, California, October 1956.
Additional Information:
Unfram...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
San Diego Gulls (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
San Diego Gulls (1956) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Seagulls over a beach in San Diego, California,
October 1956.
Additional Information:
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
State Line (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
State Line (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, USA, circa 1959.
The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state l...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Skiing Waitress (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Waitress (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Ski ‘bum’ Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slopes, carrying her sk...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Pink Accessory (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pink Accessory (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Skiers enjoy a drink by the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech,
Austria, 1960.
Additional Informat...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
La Coquille (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Coquille (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
An aerial view of Palm Beach, Florida, 1955, showing La Coquille Hotel and its swimming pool.
Additio...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Mexico Fishing Boats (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Mexico Fishing Boats (1952) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico,
1952.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Pap...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
In Capri (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capr...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain,
New Hampshire, circa 1955.
Addition...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Caped Skiers, Colorado, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Caped Skiers, Colorado, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skimaster Stein Eriksen lea...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
'Rockefeller Brothers' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Rockefeller Brothers' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The Rockefeller brothers in their Radio City, New York office. Left to right, Laurance (1910 - 2004), Winthrop (1912 - 1973), John D...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color
Nice Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nice Pool, 1955
Archival pigment print
60 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American writer C.Z. Guest (M...
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1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Mittersill Castle, Austria, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a glider resting on the ground by Mittersill Castle, Austria.
This is an estate stamped ...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Amalfi Coast' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Amalfi Coast
1984
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A young woman, wearing a bi...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vermont Winter, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features students from Sto...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
'Marbella House Party' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Marbella House Party' 1980 Italy by Slim Aarons
Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain, August 1967.
(Photo by ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Excelsior
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Excelsior
The beach front of the luxurious Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido, 1957.
48x48" / 122 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Barbados - Sarah Marson Williams
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Barbados - Sarah Marson Williams
Supersize 72 x 48 inches print
Limited to 150 only
Sarah Marson Williams enjoys...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Las Brisas' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Las Brisas' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, February 1972.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supp...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print, Color
Britt Ekland, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film star Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund) in Porto Ercole, Italy.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stampe...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Faithful Couple: Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull at Leixlip Castle, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Poolside Secrets, Estate Edition, Slim Aarons Palm Beach Collection
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flo Smith (left) and Lily Pulitzer share a secret at a pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961.
Description and alt text: In this classic image of midcentury poolside glamour, two suntanned white women share a moment by the sparkling blue and green reflective swimming pool. Flo Smith wears a breezy straw hat and sailor striped top with white shorts, and Lily Pulitzer wears a mod Grecian vase print and coral pants, and a vibrant pink kerchief. The figures in the foreground are in crisp detail, and the lush background of palm trees and cool blue sky is in soft focus. There is a beautiful contrast between the soft-focus background foliage and its graphic, bright reflection in the pool in the middle ground. Flo holds a white bag and her nails are painted red, echoing the trim of her hat. Pulitzer wears a jade bracelet, echoing the jade of the pool and her top, and her nails are natural. A blue cabana can be seen in the background. Flo holds an arm around Lily's waist, and Lily lightly tips the corner of Flo's hat.
This is a perfect image for a collector of classic photography, midcentury glamour, or iconic friendship. Color chips for complementary decorative shades of soft red, deep pink, delft blue (sky), and jade greens (pool, palms and poolside foliage) can be seen in slideshow.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive the next number in the edition
Modern printing from original transparency
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of photography, negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Lounging In Verbier'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Lounging In Verbier
1964 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Holiday...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1955: Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle.
Slim Aarons
Pink Accessory, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons color photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of color 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 c print, digital print, lambda 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 color photography, so small editions measuring 5 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Joel Meyerowitz, and Julius Shulman. Slim Aarons color photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,320 and tops out at $6,531, while the average work can sell for $3,350.