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
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Skating Waiter, St Moritz - Switzerland Ski Resort Hotel St Moritz Apres Ski
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Skating Waiter, St Moritz - Switzerland Ski Resort Hotel St Moritz Apres Ski by Slim Aarons
16" x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'S...
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20th Century Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Digital, Color, Photographic Paper, C Print
New York Debutante, 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 New York debutante having her headpiece pinned.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbe...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, C Z & Friends in a Model T, Palm Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite, C. Z. Guest, ( aka Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with her personalized Ford Model T t...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Skiing Waiters, 1962 - Skiing St Moritz with Pheasant and Champagne
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Skiing Waiters, 1962 - Skiing St Moritz with Pheasant and Champagne by Slim Aarons
16" x 16" print on 16" x 20" paper.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed ...
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20th Century American Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Color, Digital, C Print, Photographic Paper
Marbella Club (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marbella Club (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club,
Marbella, Spain, 1976.
Additional Informatio...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Modern es...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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New York Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New York Picnic (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New York skyline.
1952
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
This is an estate stamp...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Poolside Waiting, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a waiter by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, January 1970. The house was...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Sports Car Couple, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1, Printed Later. His passenger is Margaret McAulay.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 ...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Eagle Club, Estate Edition, Midcentury Gstaad Ski Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this midcentury snowscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, holidaymakers dining at the Eagle Club, Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1969.
Slim Aarons Estate E...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Beverly Hills Party, Los Angeles, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1954 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American actors Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland attending a house party in Beverly Hills.
This i...
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1950s 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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Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Saks Fifth Ave, 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 young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Lambda
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen,...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Inga Lindgren And Poodles, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Swedish model Inga Lindgren, wife of Argentinian finance minister Ceferino Alonso Irigoyen, wears designs by Vera Stewart with her standard poodles...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Jackie K, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, Classic Pearls Jacqueline Kennedy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic portrait photograph by midcentury society photographer Slim Aarons, capturing young Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Onassis) (1929 - 1994) wife of Senator Jack Kennedy, at a 'April...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Tennis'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Il Pellicano Tennis
1955 (printed later)
C print
Estate st...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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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 (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Lido Life, Venice, 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 group of friends squeeze onto an inflatable raft at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy.
This...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Principe Dom Pedro, Brazil, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, Principe Dom Pedro De Orleans E Braganca, grandson of Brazilian emperor Pedro II. He is pictured at...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Hollywood Christmas Swim, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in the background.
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Il Pellicano Pool - Porto Ercole Hotel Il Pellicano Swimming Pool Sea Views
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Il Pellicano Pool - Porto Ercole Hotel Il Pellicano Swimming Pool Sea Views by Slim Aarons
16" x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'Il...
Category
20th Century Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Skiing Waiter, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A skating cocktail waiter at the Palace Hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Sli...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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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...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Salvador Dali: Take It: Estate Edition Photograph [Iconic Surrealist, Modernist]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1970: With some of his mystical artwork at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a characteristic pose with his trademark walking-stick in vibrant...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Pagoda, Everglades Island (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Three women enjoy the sun in front of the Chinese teahouse on Everglades Island in Palm Beach, Florida, April 1985. The teahouse was designed by Wyeth, King, and Johnson.
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Pagoda
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Pictured: Cynthia Eichler (sitting) with Vicky Schaft Bruder (centre) and Cathy Tankoos (Mrs Joseph Tankoos)
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons, Slim Aarons, Palm Beach, Poolside Series, South Florida, Beach Photography, Vintage Palm Beach, Vintage Poolside, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography, Vintage Teahouse, Vintage Everglades...
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Pool At Las Brisas 1972
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Pool At Las Brisas
Guests in the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'A Friendly Chat, Bahamas' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967, Printed Later
Slim Aarons
A Friendly Chat
Bahamas
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Internal: A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967. Vintage Diving, Vintage Sport, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Bahamas...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Kings Of Hollywood, Beverly Hill, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dining In The Bahamas (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A waiter carrying a tray of food walks past a woman walking away from a swimming pool which is ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Ski Slope In St. Moritz, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Skiers (bottom) on a slope in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Co...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970.
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide....
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Leonard Dalsemer
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is p...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
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
Fa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Mustique, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
March 1973: Linda Ashland relaxes in a beach hammock on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stam...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Pool In St Tropez (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the pool at a villa in St Tropez, France, circa 1970.
Slim Aarons
St Tropez Pool
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x ...
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'Pulitzer On The Beach' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pulitzer On The Beach' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Premium Rates Apply. Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Silver Gelatin Print
Produced from the original negative
Certificate of authenticity supplied
Archive stamped
Numbered in ink on front
Printed 2021
Various sizes and frame options available
FRAMING:
Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service.
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Slim Aarons 'Palm Beach Society' Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jim Kimberly and his wife (far left) and friends with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Worth. A Palm Beach socialite, Kimberly acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan. April 1968. (Slim Aarons / Getty Images)
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Palm Beach Society...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Roca Llisa, Ibiza, Spain Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fosca, Vera, and Fiona Bertran holidaying in Roca Llisa, on the island of Ibiza, Spain, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Roca Llisa
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition of 150
Embo...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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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 (...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Esther Williams Poolside, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American actress and former swimming champion, Esther Williams, in a Florida swimming pool, 1955
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary deal...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christmas Swim: Rita Aarons' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in th...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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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Lambda
Skiing Waiter, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A skating cocktail waiter at the Palace Hotel in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Sli...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Peggy Guggenheim
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1978: Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) in the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice. The palace houses her private art collection, including Picasso's 'On the Beach', pictured to ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Annette Glatzel in Ibiza (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Abaco Holiday, 1986
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
College student Jan Woods relaxes in a hammock at the Abaco Inn on Elbow Cay, one of ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
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 st...
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1950s Surrealist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gondolas moored in Venice, 1957. In the background is the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on San Giorgio Maggiore island.
Captured with the exquisite clarity and charm that epitomiz...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA, 1964.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the ...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the pier at the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Venice Vacation
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, 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.
This artwork DOES include a certificate of authenticity from the authenticating body, the estate
Collector will get the next number in the edition
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
12 x 12 inches
$1800
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
Modern estate edition with estate blindstamp signature and hand number in lower margin
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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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Santa and Serena Antonelli and a guest dining al fresco on the terrace of their home abov...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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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 (...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
The King of Jazz: Louis Armstrong in Rome (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lucille Brown takes control of the Vespa scooter as her husband Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) displays his musical appreciation of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Slim Aarons
The Ki...
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1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital, Black and White, Emulsion
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
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.