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
Catch Up By the Pool Estate Edition, Modernist Architecture, Palm Springs
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs, 1970: This coveted photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features midcentury socialites in front of the turquoise swimming pool of the iconic Kaufma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons, Palm Springs 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...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Catherine Wilke in Capri 2 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Catherine Wilke in Capri 2, 1980
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Catherine Wilke joins the...
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1980s Modern 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 - Estate Edition - Poolside Party
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Party
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann. At far le...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Santa and Serena Antonelli and a guest dining al fresco on the terrace of their home abov...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Checkered Flag' 1963 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Checkered Flag'
The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm paper size
Esta...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970.
Paper size 20 x 24" inches / ca 50.8 x 60.9 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
P...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Monte Carlo' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Monte Carlo'
Friends board a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, 1975.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Pri...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Caracalla Therme' 1990 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Caracalla Therme' 1990 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A woman experiences the Caracalla Therme spa in Baden-Baden, September 1990.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm pape...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Skiers at Verbier, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 1964.
This is an est...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Poolside Pairs, Estate Edition, Modernist Architecture, Palm Springs Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs, 1970: This coveted photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women in stylish midcentury clothing in front of the turquoise swimming pool o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Positano Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Positano Beach
Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979.
Gorgeous print measuring a Supersize 48 x 72" inch...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Having A Topping Time Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Having A Topping Time
Socialite Alice Topping relaxing at a poolside in Palm Beach.
60x60” / 152 x 152 cm - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Hollywood Christmas Swim, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in the background.
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Skiers at Verbier, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland. 1964.
This is an est...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Eagle Club' 1969 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eagle Club'
Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Beauty and the Beast 1959 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beauty and the Beast, 1959
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.
12 x 12” / 30 ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, Sunbathing in Capri, Catherine Wilke
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers – along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas – on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980.
Sunbathing in Capr...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiers in Lech
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiers line up for a hike to ski resort Zurs from Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collec...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
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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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaro...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons - Lech Ice Bar - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershorn.
Gorgeous print measuring an large 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x 1...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Mustique Hammock' (Slim Aarons Estate)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity f...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, Principe Dom Pedro De Orleans E Braganca, grandson of Brazilian emperor Pedro II. He is pictured at...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Sea Drive Estate Edition Seascape Photograph with Amphicar in Nassau
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nassau, 1967: In 'Sea Drive,' a genuine Slim Aarons estate edition photograph, film producer Kevin McClory, his wife, Bobo Sigrist, and their family enjoy a leisurely drive in a vibrant red vintage Amphicar across the scenic turquoise Nassau harbour. This idyllic 1967 scene embodies Slim Aarons signature style, mixing casual glamour and vintage cool; the unique midcentury charm of this iconic landscape is completed with a pink parasol.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
Modern printing from original transparency
Captured 1964, printed later
Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive 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.
This is a genuine Slim Aarons Estate photograph, estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Kevin O'Donovan McClory (8 June 1924[1] – 20 November 2006) was an Irish screenwriter, film producer, and film director. McClory was best known for producing the James Bond film Thunderball, popular in the 60s and 70s.
Internal: The location for Slim Aarons midcentury photograph, Sea Drive, is Vintage Nassau, which fits curated collections for Vintage Yachting, Vintage Boating, modern graphic, midcentury modern, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Sport Photography...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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'Governing Couple' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Governing Couple'
November 1971: Nancy Reagan and her husband film star and Governor of California, Ronald Reagan (later the 40th President of the USA) in Acapulco, Mexico.
Pape...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Phil Richards' Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A poolside party at Phil Richards' home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 1970.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aar...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Sea Drive' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Sea Drive, 1967 (printed later)
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
Film produ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Catherine Wilke in Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri, 1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
'Dining At The Eagle Club' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dining At The Eagle Club' 1969 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club in the ski resort of Gstaad, Switzerland, 1969.
Paper Size 24x20 i...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Keep Your Cool 1978 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Keep Your Cool, 1978
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
16x20” / 41 x 51 cm - paper size
Estate Stamp...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Nelda And Friends' Palm Springs (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nelda And Friends' by Slim Aarons
Set to become another Slim Aaron favourite - it's better known cousins 'Poolside Gossip' and 'Desert House Party' (also listed) are considered to...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Tennis In The Bahamas Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In The Bahamas'
Two fashionably dressed women in tennis outfits, stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, with tennis rackets leaning up against...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A waiter carrying a tray of food walks past a woman walking away from a swimming pool which is ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Palm Springs Party' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco on a terrace overlooking the waters off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980.
Palm Springs Party...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Tiziana in Positano (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tiziana Audino
1984 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A topless Tiziana Audino enjoys a shower at the Hotel San Pietro in Positano, 1984.
Estate stamp...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Stamped Edition - Pool At Lake Tahoe
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bathers by a pool on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Fashionable bathers relax underneath parasols and on sun loungers beside the swimming pool, overlooking Lake Tahoe o...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Babe Paley
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Babe Paley
American socialite Babe Paley (1915 – 1978), the wife of CBS radio executive William S. Paley, beside the pool at Round Hill, their villa in Ja...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Skiing At St. Moritz' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Skiing At St. Moritz' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color
Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas.
This is an estate...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Great Harbour Cay Marina
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers at a marina on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973.
Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 24" inches / ca 50.8 x 60.9 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Faraglioni Rocks in Capri, 1974 - Capri Island Sorrento Italian Vacation Holiday
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Faraglioni Rocks in Capri, 1974 - Capri Island Sorrento Italian Vacation Holiday by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Print....
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cranmore Mountain
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hannes Schneider ski school instructor, Herman Ostermaier skiing on Cranmore Mountain, North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 40" inches / ca 76.2 x 101.6...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
French Stately Home, 1956 - Versailles Castle Grounds French Royal Family
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
French Stately Home, 1956 - Versailles Castle Grounds French Royal Family by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'Frenc...
Category
20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Slim Aarons 'A Friendly Chat, Bahamas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
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, Printed Later
Slim Aarons
A Friendly Chat
Bahamas
Chromogenic Lambda print
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
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: A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967. Vintage Diving, Vintage Sport, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Bahamas...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Leisure In Antibes'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Leisure In Antibes
1969 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, 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 sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Sugarbush Skiing, Estate Edition, Vermont
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1660 winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an individual skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960.
This is an...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, 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 sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Pool On Amalfi Coast Italy Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool On Amalfi Coast'
A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984.
Gorgeous blues in this image with the ocean and swimming pool, contrast...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
'A Friendly Chat' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'A Friendly Chat'
A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 5...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Zermatt Skiing, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive t...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
'Harbour Isle Beach' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Harbour Isle Beach' 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Holidaymakers on the beach at Harbour Isle in the Bahamas, March 1973.
Produce...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print, Color
'A Colourful Crew' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'A Colourful Crew'
A group of colourfully dressed friends on board the Calypso clothing store owned boat, Bermuda, June 1970.
Paper size 60 x 40 inches / 152 x 101 cm
Estate St...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Poolside Pairs (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs
1970 (printed later)
C Print
Estate signature stamped and numbered edition of 150
January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, de...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Rowing Off Sicily, Estate Edition (Taormina, Italy: rocky turquoise seascape)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Rowing Off Sicily, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of two couples out rowing off the coast of Sicily, Italy, near Taormina,...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, View From Il Pellicano (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
View From Il Pellicano, 1991
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted w...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Nelda and Friends, Palm Springs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ladies by the pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970. From right to left, former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), unknown, Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, and actress Lita Baron (in white sunhat). The Linsks are the current owners of the house.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism.
Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday."
Slim Aarons
Nelda and...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
New York Picnic, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Premium Rates Apply. A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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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.