Slim Aarons Portrait 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
Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, Leonard Dalsemer Villa, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
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Arturo Pani's Villa
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The swimming pool at Arturo Pani's villa, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968.
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Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1987 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, 1987
Slim Aarons
Il Pellicano Pool, 1987
Lambda Print
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Liz Pringle, Jamaica, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features fashion model Liz Pringle drinking from a coconut at the Round Hill resort, Montego Bay, ...
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Private Transport, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Jean Serpieri at Tour La Reine (Queen's Tower), Athens, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
December 1961—Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of modern Greece. The palace too originally belonged to King Otto, and was used as a summer home by the royal family. The room features neogothic architecture, a sky blue, red and gold decorative ceiling, black and white tile, and rich blue upholstery.
Chromogenic Lambda print
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
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 *
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Tour la Reine is a former royal estate near Athens, Greece. The estate, consisting of 200 hectares (494 acres), was purchased by King Otto, the first king of modern Greece. He built there a small neogothic castle for his wife, Queen Amalia. The architecture resembles Hohenschwangau castle in Bavaria, built for Maximilian II of Bavaria, the brother of King Otto. As the castle is only one tower, it is called the Queen's Tower. After the abdication of King Otto, the estate was sold to the Serpieri family, who still own it. They have a dairy farm and wineyard on the estate. The wines bottled on the estate are called "Tour la Reine" (French for Queen's Tower).
A nearby station of the Proastiakos suburban railway opened in 2014, Pyrgos Vasilissis, is named after the estate.
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Private Transport
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Gloria Schiff And Consuelo Crespi, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pilar Crespi and her sister, Italian countess Consuelo Crespi (1928-2010) in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1968.
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Acapulco Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architect Arturo Pani and his wife by their swimming pool at home in Acapulco, Mexico.
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'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 *
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Alice Topping in Palm Beach (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Alice Topping
1959 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Socialite Alice Topping sit...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Portofino, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Yachts moored in the Italian fishing village of Portofino, circa 1955.
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Taylor, Todd And Family
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contact strip depicting British-born American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - 2011) at an airfield, (possibly Croydon Airport, London) with her third husband, American producer Mi...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Nice Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Step into the world of casual elegance and midcentury glamour with Slim Aarons' evocative photograph, "Nice Pool" This image offers a mesmerizing glimpse into the opulent life of Ame...
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Marisa Berenson, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actress Marisa Berenson sunbathing in Capri, 1968.
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Catherine Wilke, Capri, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers at the Hotel Punta Tragara on the island of Capr...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Eva Gabor, Estate Edition Photograph, Midcentury Classic Hollywood, Vintage Pink
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
TV and film actress Eva Gabor takes a coffee in an unfinished bedroom in Bay Roc Hotel, Montego, Jamaica, 1950. In this classic image of vintage mid-century ...
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1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Pool at Lake Tahoe, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sierra Nevada Mountains
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph by iconic mid-century photographer Slim Aarons depicts bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1959.
Immerse yourself in the nostalgic allure of Slim Aarons' 'Lake Tahoe Pool,' a stunning estate photograph that captures the essence of 1950s summer leisure at the Tahoe Tavern, California. This piece is a window into a bygone era, where bathers bask by a dazzling turquoise pool, framed by the towering majesty of pine trees, with the Sierra Nevada mountains and the pristine waters of Lake Tahoe forming a breathtaking backdrop.
This idyllic scene is adorned with vintage holidaymakers lounging under chic fringed pastel umbrellas, embodying the effortless style and elegance that Aarons is renowned for. The tranquil poolside setting, framed by nature's grandeur, creates a captivating contrast between serene relaxation and the wild beauty of the Californian landscape.
Slim Aarons
Pool at Lake Tahoe
Chromogenic Lambda print
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
Captured 1959, Printed later
Collector gets 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, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150).
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Slim Aarons, Helen Dzo Dzo, Palm Springs (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, 1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, Ca...
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Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The coastline near Warren Avis' villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, January 1978.
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Faithful Couple: Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull at Leixlip Castle, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
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Drinks at Gstaad, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Models from Parisian jeweller M. Gerard enjoying drinks on the terrace of The Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1984.
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Jean Patchett for Saks Fifth Avenue - Model Posing in Springtime New York
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Jean Patchett for Saks Fifth Avenue - Model Posing in Springtime New York by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Printed Later.
Jean Patchett for Sak...
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Digital, Black and White, Photographic Paper
Acapulco Lunch
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A long afternoon lunch at Acapulco. Among the guest are (from left to right) film star Douglas Fairbanks Junior (1909 - 2000), couturiers Oscar de la Renta, and standing behind him E...
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Truman Capote, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Truman Capote
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
1970: Author of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'In Cold Blood,' Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) and his dog in Palm Springs, California.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Chromogenic Lambda print
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Estate stamped and hand-numbered edition of 150 with a certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
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 *
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
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Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, 1955.
Slim Aarons
New England Skiing
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Caprice On Capri, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1958: Singer and actress Caprice Chantal (right) on the Italian island of Capri.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aa...
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Slim Aarons 'Family Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1960: Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons
Family Pool
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
16 x 16 inches
$2150
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Belvedere Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The swimming pool at the Hotel Belvedere, Amalfi, Italy, August 1984.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estat...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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By The Pool In Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A tanned man surrounded by young women in bikinis by the pool at Warren Avis's villa in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1978.
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Un...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiing Holiday, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition. Winter Portrait Photograph
This late 1970s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features A...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Patrick Lichfield, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1968: Patrick, Earl of Lichfield, with a friend in Capri, Italy.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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By The Pool In Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A tanned man surrounded by young women in bikinis by the pool at Warren Avis's villa in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1978.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Un...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Eden Hartford, Hollywood, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, co...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell, Estate Edition, Portrait Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell, Beverly Hills, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This 1960 portrait photograph, captured by society ph...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Princess Ruspoli, Lech am Arlberg, Austria
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Lucy Ruspoli stands in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech am Arlberg, Austria, February 1979.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Esther Williams, Poolside, Estate Edition, 1950s Florida
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
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
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.
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 *
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Spring Break
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
High schoolers picnic on the beach at Bonita Springs, Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Nu...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Ardizzone's House, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Overlooking Ardizzone's House, on the water's edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Waiting in the Shade, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Ardizzone's House, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Overlooking Ardizzone's House, on the water's edge in Portofino, Italy, July 1985.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Funk In Tuscany, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian fashion designer, model and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Italian Brionvega Radiofonograph RR126 stereo system, Porto Ercole, Tus...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Spring Break
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
High schoolers picnic on the beach at Bonita Springs, Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Nu...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Spring Break
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
High schoolers picnic on the beach at Bonita Springs, Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Spring Break
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Nu...
Category
1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Montecatini, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
Category
1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Patrick Lichfield, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1968: Patrick, Earl of Lichfield, with a friend in Capri, Italy.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons ...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
La Concha Beach Club
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A view of La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Slim Aarons, "Sunbathing in Arizona" (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman sunbathing nude by Tom Darlington's pool in Carefree, Arizona, April 1967.
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Sunbathing in Arizona
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, "Poolside in Arizona" (Midcentury Architecture, Vintage Desert)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Poolside In Arizona' by Slim Aarons
Fabulously fashionable guests by the calm water of the swimming pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale,...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954)
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Man Ray in Paris
1956 printed later
C-Print
Estate si...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Down To The Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of women going down the the steps to the pool at Warren Avis' villa, 'La Barranca' at Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, April 1979.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer,...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print
Bettina Graziani, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Graziani relaxes in a hammock on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1964.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Number...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Port Life, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A man stops to watch a young woman tie her sandals on the pavement in Portofino marina, August 1977.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and s...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons portrait photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of portrait 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 digital print, lambda print, laser 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 portrait photography, so small editions measuring 10 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Bob Willoughby, and Mark Beard. Slim Aarons portrait photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $960 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work can sell for $3,000.