Slim Aarons Landscape 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, he opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. Aarons 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, he 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 Aarons 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
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.
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Relaxing At Lake Tahoe
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A group of people relaxing by a pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959.
Estate Stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Kings of Holly...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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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 Landscape Photography
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Alpine Skiing (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers waiting for the cable car at Verbier in Switzerland, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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Vermont Winter (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
circa 1960: Students from Stowe Preparatory School track through deep snow near Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak, Vermont.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Sunbather on Rock, Costa Smeralda Sardinia, Italy' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A sunbather on a rock by the seaside pool at Jacques Couelle's home 'Monte Mano', on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, August 1973.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
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$3350
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Cannes Water Sports, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aa...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print
Acapulco Villa
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spent his honeymoon. Acapulco, Mexico, 1968.
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Welcoming Guests La Casinella
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Welcoming guests La Casinella, 1983
Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Verbier Vacation (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Vacation, 1964
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Holiday-makers take the sun on a mountain top in Ver...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Flintstone Home
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Carl Hovgard's home, Bouldereign in Carefree, Arizona, built around the boulders on a desert site, January 1973.
state stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Beach at St. Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Beach at St. Tropez, 1977
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Sunbathers on the beach at St. ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Nice Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nice Pool, 1955
Archival pigment print
60 x 60 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American writer C.Z. Guest (M...
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1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Elegance On The Beach (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A woman in a full length, white dress on a rocky beach in San Diego, California, October 1956.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity fro...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Al Fresco Bedroom (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Bedford, New York resident Mary Jane Russell poses with her cats on a four-poster style bed laid out on the lawn, 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Scone, Madam?
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1960, Afternoon tea round the pool on a cold day at the home of interior decorator James Pendleton in Beverly Hills.
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$335...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Boca Raton Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Boca Raton Pool, 1978
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A swimming...
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1970s American Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Guests at the Villa Nirvana (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption:Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1978.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Les Sophores, Saint-Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Les Sophores, Saint-Tropez, 1977
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Janine Bril in the garden...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Tropical Mustique
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pierre Vincent Marais and his wife Isabelle holiday with friends at their modern home on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. The house was designed by their son Bertrand for ea...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Palm Beach Arts Festival (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Los Leones, Saint-Barthelemy
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Los Leones, the home of Catherine and Pero Feric at Pointe Milou on the northern coast of Saint-Barthelemy in the Caribbean, March 1991.
Estate stamped a...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Verbier View (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier View, 1964
Archival pigment print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Skiers admire the view across a valley of...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Archival Pigment
Portofino, Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Portofino, Italy, 1985
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The most exclusive fishing vi...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Von Oswald House, Austria (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Von Oswald House, Austria, 1986
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people r...
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1980s Minimalist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Poolside Party (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar Kaufman
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Bermuda Style Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Bermuda Style Pool, 1957
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from th...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Zermatt Skiers
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Belvedere Pool, Amalfi, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Belvedere Pool, Amalfi, Italy, 1984
Chromogenic Lambda print
The swimming pool at the Hotel Belvedere, Amalfi, Italy, August 1984.
Estate stamped and hand number...
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1980s Contemporary Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
USA Trianon (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
USA Trianon, 1960
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of young women enjoying the ...
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1960s American Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
California Garden Party (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
California Garden Party, 1975
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate Edition of 150
Fashionable guests attend a poolside luncheon at the ...
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1970s American Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Zermatt Skiers, Switzerland
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Skiers in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worke...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
estate edition of 150
40 x 30 inches
A view from a hillside in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southeastern France, looking toward Monaco, August 1970.
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Brunch At Brennan's (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
circa 1960: Sunday brunch at Brennan's restaurant, New Orleans. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Algarve Sunbathers (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers in the Algarve, Portugal, August 1973
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons Estate.
Slim Aarons (...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print, Lambda
Poolside Reflections, Beverly Hills Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Reflections, Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957
Chromogenic Lambda print
Holiday makers relaxing by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Los Leones
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Los Leones, 1991
Chromogenic Lambda print
Los Leones, the home of Catherine and Pero Feric at Pointe Milou on the northern coast of Saint-Barthelemy in the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Skiers at Verbier Switzerland (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers relax in deckchairs on the slopes at Verbier in Switzerland, 1964
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
paper siz...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) w...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Blue Seas, Corsica (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers' yachts find a quiet haven off the Mediterranean island of Cavallo, Corsica, August 1984.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authentic...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Bahamanian Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bahamanian Hotel, 1973
C Print
A hotel on the coast at Great Harbour Cay, Bahamas, March 1973.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity fro...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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C Print
South African Swimming Pool (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A luxury house in South Africa with stairs leading to the swimming pool in the garden, 1958.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from th...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Chantilly Racecourse in France (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Chantilly Racecourse in France, 1956
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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The Klosters (Aarons state Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers pass by the Hotel Chesa Grischuna in Klosters, Switzerland, 1963.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aa...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Monaco Grand Prix (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Racing driver Jackie Stewart makes a television broadcast at the Monaco Grand Prix, 22nd May 1977. Behind him is John Watson's 'Martini' race car.
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Antonelli Sisters (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Santa and Serena Antonelli taking tea on the terrace of their home above Via Giucciardini, Florence, Italy.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of aut...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Roquebrune Brune Cap Martin
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Roquebrune Brune Cap Martin, 1981
open edition
40 x 30 inches
The Monte-Carlo Beach Hôtel on the Pointe de la Vieille in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, southe...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Seaside Picnic (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Rudulph Ellis Carter holds a picnic in Newport, August 1987.
The group includes David Lindh, Frank Gilligan, Kenneth Lindh, Diana Prince, Foxy Carter, Lisette Prince de Ramel, Yusha...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
Skiers at Verbier (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers at Verbier, 1964
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publica...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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The Palace Hotel
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1961.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Sli...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Portofino Villa (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Portofino, Italy, August 1977.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with c...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Jhelum River (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A boat trip on the Jhelum River near Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, 1961. The boat is called the 'HB Cutty Sark'.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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USA Trianon (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
circa 1960: A group of young women enjoying the sunshine in the grounds of the former George Newhall estate in San Francisco. Its house and gardens are modelled on Le Petit Trianon a...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Lambda
John Rawlings (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1950, Fashion photographer John Rawlings (1912 - 1970) on the beach at Montego Bay, Jamaica. January 1, 1950, fashion photographer John Rawlings relaxes on a beach in Jamaica. He was...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Yachting Trip (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Selvaggia Borromeo wades ashore from her yacht during a holiday on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, August 1967.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of a...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Pool By The Sea (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Pool By The Sea (Aarons Estate Edition), 1969
Guests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, France 1969
Estate stamped and hand number...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Skiers at Gstaad (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption:Skiers at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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Curling At St. Moritz (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Landscape Photography
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