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
'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Party' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neu...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Neo-Classical Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Neo-Classical Pool
Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman's paren...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Pool At Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Sardinia, Italy)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of a swimming pool in Rosarda, Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, August 1982.
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Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Palace Hotel in Gstaad, ...
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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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'Poolside In Sotogrande' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside In Sotogrande' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain, August 1975.
Produced from the original transparency
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Belvedere Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The swimming pool at the Hotel Belvedere, Amalfi, Italy, August 1984.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estat...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Conca dei Marini, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
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A Friendly Chat, Estate Edition, Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967
Visual Description: A woman seated in a wicker chair i...
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Slim Aarons - Nicholsons 1959 - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nicholsons
Cafe Nicholson in New York, 1959.
Paper size 50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limited to 150 p...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'San Diego Gulls' 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'San Diego Gulls' 1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Seagulls over a beach in San Diego, California, 1960.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authe...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print, Color
Eden Rock, Estate Edition, Bay of St. Jean in the Caribbean island of St. Barts
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, depicts the mansion of Remy de Haenen on a peninsula in the bay of St. Jean at Eden Rock on the Ca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Ice Hockey, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ice Hockey, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1990s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people play an im...
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1990s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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'Skiing In Seefeld' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing In Seefeld' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A group of men and women go cross-country skiing in Seefeld, Austria, 1985.
Produced from the original transparen...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print, Color
The Hotel Excelsior, Rome, 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 woman holding her skis in North Conway, New Hampshire.
This is an estate stamped and han...
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'Chalet Costi' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Chalet Costi'
Skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968.
30x30 inches / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Cortina d'Ampezzo' - Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A rest from skiing at Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1982.
Slim Aarons
Cortina d'Ampezzo
1982 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of auth...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This mid-1955s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Curling, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Curling, Austria, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Heinrich Dite and L...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing - Oversize c print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955 (Photo by Slim Aarons)
This photogr...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print, Color
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...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons, Kaufmann Desert House (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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.
Estate stamp...
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'Skiers At Verbier' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiers At Verbier' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1964: Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland.
Produced from the original transparency
Certi...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Barbados Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mr and Mrs Nigel van Wieck take a stroll along a beach in Barbados, April 1976
Visual Description: A couple walks along a white and natural sand beach...
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'Hotel Du Palais Biarritz' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Du Palais Biarritz' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
The curved beachside pool at the Hotel du Palais Biarritz, Biarritz, France, September 1985.
Produced from...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print, Color
Transport Buffs, Estate Edition, Monte Carlo Harbour
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Transport Buffs,' an authentic Slim Aarons Estate Edition photograph, captures an opulent scene from the summer of 1976 in the Monte Carlo harbour. The image depicts Roy J Craven and Prince Pouilnac engaged in conversation on a luxury yacht. Adorning the deck of the yacht are a helicopter and two motor boats, adding color, structure and grandeur of the scene. The duo reclines on a semi-circular seating area at the yacht's stern, featuring bright orange and white stripes, enhancing the vibrant luxury of this iconic moment.
'Transport Buffs'
Monte Carlo Harbor
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
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: This Slim Aarons Seascape Photograph is set in Vintage Monte Carlo, and fits the following curatorial categories: Vintage Harbor, Vintage Yachts, ocean, France, 70's Monte Carlo, seascape, red and white stripes, Vintage beach, vintage glamour, vintage summer, watercraft, summer 1976, Monte Carlo harbour, Roy J Craven, Prince Pouilnac, luxury yacht, helicopter on yacht, motor boats, orange and white striped seating...
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Slim Aarons 'Winter Wear' 1976 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Winter Wear' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976.
P...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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All Mine, Lake Worth, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Wort...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Julie London (Aarons Estate Print)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1957: Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authe...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Model Barbara...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Brunch At Brennans - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Brunch At Brennans
Sunday brunch at Brennan’s restaurant, New Orleans.
48 x 48" / 122 x 122 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printe...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'The High Life' 1977 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'The High Life'
Actor George Hamilton (in blue) takes off in a speedboat with friends during a stay in St Tropez, August 1977.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Sta...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Snorkelling (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1954: Two young women going snorkelling.
Slim Aarons
Snorkelling
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 *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Snorkelling, Vintage sport, Beach Photography, Vintage Ocean photography, Vintage snorkelling...
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Sunbathing in Barbados
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The former Pauline Haywood sunbathing on a lilo in a swimming pool designed by English artist Oliver Messel, Barbados, April 1976.
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Hotel Taormina, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Hotel Taormina, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage depiction of the seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Visual Description: This iconic photograph features rugged a swimming pool and sunkissed rocks alongside boats in sparkling turquoise water. More geological formations can be seen below the surface of the sea.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Saint-Tropez, France is a glamorous vacation destination west of Nice and east of Marseille in the Var...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, May 1967
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Sunbathing In Burgenstock
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Burgenstock
Lilian Hanson, sunbathing by a pool at the Burgenstock Resort in Canton Nidwalden, Switzerland, 1955.
Gorgeous p...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons - Palm beach street - estate stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Street by Slim Aarons
Cars parked on a tree-lined street in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1953.
How typically 'Slim style' this photograph is. Beautiful and iconic 1950's c...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Official Estate edition - Beverly Hills Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel by Slim Aarons
Beautiful 1950's cars parked outside the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957.
40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm pape...
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Slim Aarons 'Time For A Guinness'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: April 1959: Gloria Guinness enjoying a swim in her pool at Manalapan, Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticit...
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'Las Brisas Hotel' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Las Brisas Hotel' 1968 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Apartments and pools at the La Concha Beach Club in Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968. (Photo by ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color
Skiing Princess, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Princess
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included.
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp de...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Saint-Tropez Boucherie 1971 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Saint-Tropez Boucherie
A boucherie or butcher’s shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Paper size 20 x 24" inches / 51 x 61 cm
Estate S...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing In Gstaad
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A vapour trail above skiers on a ski slope in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1961.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Editio...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Olden - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Olden
People carry their skis past the Hotel Olden in Gstaad, 1961.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aar...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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'Lillian Crawford' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lillian Crawford'
Lillian Crawford, the wife of actor Lee Kinsolving, in Palm Beach, May 1970.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Monte Carlo Beach Club' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at the Monte Carlo Beach Club, Monaco, August 1970
Slim Aarons
Monte Carlo Beach Club, 1970 (Printed later)
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 40 inches
Framing...
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Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Idyll' 1955 Official Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Palm Beach Idyll'
A couple sunbathe by the sea at Palm Beach Florida 1955 USA
Paper size 48 x 48 inches / 122 x 122 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Sli...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Playboy Party' 1961 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Playboy Party'
Guests of American publisher Hugh Hefner, December 1961.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Debutantes (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young debutantes in Palm Beach, Florida, 1968.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Debutantes
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, wo...
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Antigua Beach Club, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The beach club at at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies, 1960.
Slim Aarons
Antigua Beach Club, 1960
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
30 x 20 Inches
$3,000
40 x 30 Inches
$3,350
60 x 40 inches
$3,950
72 x 48 inches
$4,500
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.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons, Vintage...
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'Megachess' 1993 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Megachess'
A giant game of chess in Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, February 1993.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo ...
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1990s 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...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Marbella House Party' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Marbella House Party' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain,1967.
Produced from the original transp...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
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...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters'
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carrying a bottle of wine in an ice bucke...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' (1976) Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc
Guests standing by a white Rolls-Royce convertible courtesy car at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976
Paper size 30 x 30 inches / 76 x 76...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
Poolside Backgammon
1972
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ce...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - New England Skiing - Oversize C Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire, circa 1955.
Paper size 40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm
Estate Stamped Collection E...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
'Caroline And Pet' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Caroline And Pet'
Princess Caroline of Monaco, with her pet dog Tiffany, Monte Carlo, August 1981.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.