Slim Aarons Figurative 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
'Eton vs Harrow' Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eton Vs Harrow (1955) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A view of spectators on the pitch at a cricket match ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Peace And Plenty
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
People by the pool at Club Peace And Plenty, Georgetown on the island of Great Exuma, Bahama...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Tropical Mustique, 1989 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Lyford Cay Fire Service
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Lyford Cay Fire Service - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
The fire service in Lyford Cay, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, April 1966
(Photo by Slim Aarons).
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).
Limited edition to 150 only
numbered and stamped
by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 60" inches / ca 101.6 x 152.4 cm’s paper size.
Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only.
Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source.
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Monocled Miss, 1964 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Pop And Society Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pop And Society 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 pa...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Desert House Party 1970 Official Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Desert House Party, 1970
A poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in Palm Springs, January 1970. Featured in the group are: industrial d...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Lounging In Verbier' (Estate Stamped Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
This photograph epitomises the Travel, Lifestyle and Glamou...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons - Lounging In Verbier Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lounging In Verbier' by Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in sun loungers on the slopes at Verbier, Switzerland, February 1964.
Gorgeous print measuring a large oversize 40 x 30" inches /...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Sugarbush Slopes 1960
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sugarbush Slopes 1960 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Skiers relaxing on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in Warren, Vermont, USA, circa 1960. The Sugarbush resort is one...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
'Social Call' Slim Arons ESTATE EDITION
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Social Call' by Slim Aarons
SLIM AARONS ESTATE EDITION PRINT
Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Aluminum
Evening Dress (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Evening Dress (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Mrs. Augustus G. Paine II at the house of her father, Earl E. T. Smith, wearing an evening dress by...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Black and White, Archival Pigment
Skiing At Courchevel, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers on the slopes at Courchevel, France, 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Modern estate edit...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Speedboat Landing' August 1973 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Speedboat Landing' August 1973
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print
A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Ho...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Verbier Skier, 1964 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Kings of Hollywood'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's cocktail party ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Leonard Dalsemer - Limited Edition Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Digital
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Klosters, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers pass by the Hote...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Party at Romanoff’s' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Party at Romanoff’s' SLIM AARONS ESTATE Print
Giant Estate Stamped Limited Edition Print
by Slim Aarons
A party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills,...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative 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 ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool, 1978
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
Carmen Alv...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Spot the Ball, 1960 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Marbella Club Bather' Mid-Century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
"Marbella Club Bather," a 1976 Slim Aarons photograph, captures mid-century modern Mediterranean luxury. Limited C-print (1/150), estate-stamped, authenticated.
Slim Aarons
Marbella...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Casa Las Estacas, 1979 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Cranmore Mountain Skiers
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955.
(Photo by Slim Aarons).
This photograp...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Catch Up by the Pool, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Boy Baron (1957) Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boy Baron (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The youngest peer in England, seven-year-old Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd B...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.
Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both b...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Skiing Waiters' Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons 'Skiing Waiters' 1960
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 bucket, and the third carrying a menu, circa 1960 (Photo by Slim Aarons).
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.
This print measures 30 x 30" / 76 x 76 cm paper size
Printed in 2024 - produced from the original transparency
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Archive stamped and numbered in ink on the front
Limited Edition to 150 only
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE :
12 x 12 / 30 x 30 cm
20 x 20 / 50 x 50 cm
30 x 30 / 76 x 76 cm
40 x 40 / 102 x 102 cm
50 x 50 / 127 x 127 cm
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GALERIE PRINTS works in close partnership with the prestigious Getty Images Archive and Slim Aarons Estate, London England - to bring you officially certified prints from this beautiful collection. Our prints are produced as Original Colour C-type or Black & White Silver Gelatin Photographs – utilising the original transparencies and negatives housed at the Archive.
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Truman Capote at Home' Photograph Print by Getty
By Slim Aarons
Located in San Rafael, CA
We are an authorized Getty Images Gallery Partner.
Slim Aarons (American, 1916-1016)
Capote at Home
C-type print on Fujicolor Cyrstal archival paper
Full sheet with margins
With em...
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2010s Contemporary Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Kings Of Hollywood Slim Aarons Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Kings Of Hollywood 1957
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), Van Heflin (1910 – 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 – 1961) and James Stewart (1908 – 1997)
enjoying...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
'Dining Al Fresco On Capri' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Dining Al Fresco On Capri' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sa...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis.
Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience.
"Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention.
"I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
'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 Figurative Photography
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C Print
'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc' 1976 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Faithful Couple 1968 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Faithful Couple
Singer Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones stand in front of a gilt framed portrait in Castletown Mansion, Eire, August 1968.
40x30” / 76x101 c...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Dining Al Fresco On Capri, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco ...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Onassis In Office' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Onassis In Office' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 - 1975) in the office aboard his y...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
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 Figurative Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Pantz Pool 1985 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pantz Pool' 1985 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Laura Hawk, assistant to the photographer, relaxes by the pool at El Rincon, the von Pantz' Marbella home, September 1985...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Family Chair (1968) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Family Chair (1968) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Elizabeth Matthews, descendant of H M Flagler co-founder of Palm Beach, sits in h...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Verbier Vacation' 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Verbier, 1964.
Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print.
Printed 2024.
Slim Aa...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
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 Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'El Venero'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
El Venero
1971 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
El Venero, th...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Babe Paley
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Babe Paley - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
American socialite Babe Paley (1915 – 1978), the wife of CBS radio executive William...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Eden-Roc Pool' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eden-Roc Pool
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
CAPTION: Guests by the pool at the ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Yacht Holiday - Slim Aarons - 20th century color photography - Nudes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Yacht Holiday' by Slim Aarons
Limited Edition Estate Print
limited to 150 only
numbered in ink & emboss stamped.
60 x 40 " inches paper size
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
'Count And Countess Jaime De Mora Y Aragon' Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Count And Countess Jaime De Mora Y Aragon' by Slim Aarons
LIMITED EDITION ESTATE STAMPED PRINT
Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
Coun...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pool at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, 1982 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Please note that as of 1st March 2025, the Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Collection aligned its pricing across the entire collection.
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced t...
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Edition - Saks Fifth Avenue
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
photo by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Monocled Miss, Estate Edition (German model Renata Boeck in 1960s New York)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German fashion model Renata Boeck (wearing a monocle) enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. She is wearing a black monocle and a fur-lined turquoise robe as she reads the morning paper, propped up against sumptuous yellow pillows. Morning light pours through the sheer curtains...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
'Nassau Sailing' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Nassau Sailing' 1971 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A flotilla of yachts, at Nassau in the Bahamas, March 1971.
Produced from the original transparency
Certificate of a...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Laura Hawk at Paestrum' : Mid-Century Modern : Ancient Ruins
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Laura Hawk amid the ancient greek ruins of Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno, 1984
Laura Hawk
1984
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition ...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Zermatt Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Zermatt Skiing
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968.
Gorgeous print measuring 72 x 48" inches / ca 182.8 x 121.9 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Anne Anka
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Anne Anka - Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Anne Anka, wife of singer Paul Anka and daughter of Count Charles de Zogheb, with her daughters (left to right) Alicia, Anthea, Alexandra and Amanda, November 1976 (Photo by Slim Aarons).
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).
Limited edition to 150 only
numbered and stamped
by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso.
Supplied with certificate of authenticity.
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s paper size.
Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only.
Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source.
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women fashion kids fashion mid 70s 70s 1970s family portrait mother and daughters happy faces red socks countryside life style stables horses blue dress pink dress horse riding wear horse riding boots...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Great Harbour Cay Marina
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
Limited to 150 only
Holidaymakers at a marina on Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
This photograph epitomises the ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
'Dali's Party' Estate Edition, ft Surrealist Salvador Dali in New York
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking stick and wearing a mustache, and the woman smiles with mischief, wearing extraordinary mid-century dress and jewels. In Dali's work and life, the magical, mysterious, artistic and alchemical mix. The vintage and classic mingles with the bizarre and strange in this historic photograph of an avant-garde legend.
Dali's Party, 1959 (Salvador Dali in New York)
Slim Aarons Estate Edition Photograph
Lambda Print
Estate Embossed with 2 Certificates of Authenticity
Printed Later
4 sizes available
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol gcYC (/ˈdɑːli, dɑːˈliː/;[1] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli];[2] 11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931, and is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments.
Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. His public support for the Francoist regime, his commercial activities and the quality and authenticity of some of his late works have also been controversial. His life and work were an important influence on other Surrealists, pop art and contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
There are two major museums devoted to Salvador Dalí's work: the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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: Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Salvador...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Wendy Vanderbilt
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
American socialite Wendy Vanderbilt at home in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1964.
Gorgeous print measuring 20 x 20" inches / ca 50.8 x 50.8 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped Collection...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Beach Idyll, Estate Edition. Vintage 1950s Florida, Christmas Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsui...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
'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
Certificate...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
'Sun Worship' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sun Worship' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Produced from t...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Slim Aarons 'Waterskiing at Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Waterskiing from the Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, France, 1969.
Waterskiing at Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc
1969 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Monocled Miss, Estate Edition (German model Renata Boeck in 1960s New York)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German fashion model Renata Boeck (wearing a monocle) enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. She is wearing a black monocle and a fur-lined turquoise robe as she reads the morning paper, propped up against sumptuous yellow pillows. Morning light pours through the sheer curtains...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess On Deck
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess on Deck
Countess Gioia Gaetani-Lovatelli relaxes on deck during a yachting holiday in Porto Rotondo, 1982.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 6...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surfing Brothers
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930's.
Esta...
Category
1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Boats At Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc' 1969 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Boats At Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc'
Motorboats moored off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, 1969.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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