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
Skiing Waitress (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Waitress (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Ski ‘bum’ Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slopes, carrying her sk...
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Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Skiing Princess (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Princess Luciana Pignatelli on a skiing holiday in Lech,
Austria.
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Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis in San Diego (1956) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees,
San Diego, California, October ...
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Sundowners (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sundowners (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Two bikini-clad holidaymakers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel,
Cannes, 1958.
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Von Furstenberg (1977) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Von Furstenberg (1977) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
His Serene Highness Heinrich von und zu Furstenberg with his new wife Maximiliana von und zu Furstenberg in t...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
De Rosieres Family (1975) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
De Rosieres Family (1975) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Viscount and Viscountess Paul de Rosiere outside a villa in Monte Carlo, August 1975.
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Killer Joe Piro (1964) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Killer Joe Piro (1964) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
American dance instructor ‘Killer’ Joe Piro (1921 – 1989) dances past the park in New York,
July 1964.
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Julie London (1957) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Julie London (1957) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel,
circa ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershor...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
La Canzone del Mare (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Canzone del Mare (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
La Canzone del Mare in Capri,
Italy, July 1958.
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In Capri (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
In Capri (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Robert Hornstein, the artist Novella Parigini and Prince Dado Ruspoli on Capr...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Marquess of Waterford (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marquess of Waterford (1970) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
The Marquess and Marchioness of Waterford and their elder son, the Earl of Tyrone, in the ground...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Color
Nassau Beach Hotel (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nassau Beach Hotel (1959) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The outdoor swimming pool at Nassau Beach Hotel, Nassau, Bahamas, 1959.
The hotel was the firs...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marsha Gayle (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoys a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros,
Bah...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment, Color
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain,
New Hampshire, circa 1955.
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Slim Aarons 'Monocled Miss' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons
Monocled...
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Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Colin Tennant (1973) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, on the island of Mustique, which he owns privately,
March 1973.
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Civilised Snooze (1955) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Christmas Traffic (1953) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Photographer Slim Aarons slouches in a chair with the Acropolis and its surroundings as a backdrop,
1955
Ad...
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Slim Aarons, Opera Singer In St Moritz (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Opera Singer In St Moritz, 1978
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
American-born opera singer Karen Davis arrives at the Palace Hotel in a vi...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seafront in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, September 1970.
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront
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: Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez, Vintage Ships, French Riviera, Beach Photography, Vintage Riviera, Vintage Docks...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Snorkelling (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1954: Two young women going snorkelling.
Slim Aarons
Snorkelling
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: Slim Aarons, Snorkelling, Vintage sport, Beach Photography, Vintage Ocean photography, Vintage snorkelling...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, Poolside (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed later.
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 *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at their home, the Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes, France, 1956.
Slim Aarons
...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seafront in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, September 1970.
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront
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: Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez, Vintage Ships, French Riviera, Beach Photography, Vintage Riviera, Vintage Docks...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Pool at Las Brisas, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater view of the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Palm Beach Arts Festival, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Palm Beach Arts Festival Procession, Florida, 1964.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Arts Festival
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimen...
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Slim Aarons: Tiger Morse (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tiger Morse sits in her shop, 'A la Carte' in New York, 1964.
Andy Warhol star and fashion designer Joan "Tiger" Morse is pictured here with her signature black lace and a feathered mask, with a cigarette and long holder. She was a regular at Max's Kansas City, a society girl turned radical designer and creative dropout.
She frequently lied about her past, and her biography remains a bit mysterious. She has been called “La Passionaria of the dropout subculture.” She would say, “I work all day and I swing all night." Her celebrity clients ran the gamut from Jackie Kennedy to Frank Zappa.
She was known for only using manmade materials, including vinyl, Mylar, sequins, and electric lights. Her pop designs include the Love / Hate dress, which said "Love" on the front and "Hate" on the back.
Tiger was in two Andy Warhol factory films, Tiger Morse, 1967 and **** (Four Stars). She was the subject of Tiger Morse, while **** also featured Tiger, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, and Ultra Violet. Her designs can be seen on the cover of the "We're Only In It For The Money" album, which parodies The Beatles Sargent...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons 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.
Slim Aarons
Venice Gondolas
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printe...
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Slim Aarons 'Susanna Boylston Bolton'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Susanna Boylston Bolton
1965 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition 1 of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Susanna ‘Sukey’ Boylston Bolton, Newport...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Hotel Krone, Lech (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960
Slim Aarons
Hotel Krone, Lech
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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Slim Aarons, Anchorage Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A view of the Anchorage Hotel on Dickenson Bay, Antigua in the West Indies, 1960. Built by a Scottish couple, formerly resident in Africa, the hotel complex features Zulu-style cotta...
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Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969
Slim Aarons
Il Pellicano Pool, 1969
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
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Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This vibrant snowscape by Slim Aarons depicts skiers outside the Chalet Costi in Zermatt, 1968. The skier on the left wears white pants and a crisp red jacket, and the skier on the left wears vibrant orange. Vintage skis lean against the warm wood entrance, and two drinks with festive lemon wedges are set on the table for apres-ski. Behind the chalet rises a snowy mountain peak.
A classic winter scene from an iconic midcentury photographer...
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Backgammon By The Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...
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Slim Aarons, Barbados Bliss (Ava Marshall, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Barbados Bliss / Ava Marshall, 1976
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
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Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958, Printed Later.
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
Lambda Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Framing options available
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 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.
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 *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
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Slim Aarons, "Poolside in Arizona" (Architecture, Desert, Pool, 1970's)
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, Arizona, January 1973. This classi...
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Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Debutantes (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young debutantes in Palm Beach, Florida, 1968.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Debutantes
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, wo...
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Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
Lambda Print
6 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate 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
$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.
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 *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, "Poolside in Arizona" (Architecture, Desert, Pool, 1970's)
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, Arizona, January 1973.
Slim Aaron...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Gondolas' (Slim Aarons 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.
Slim Aarons
Venice Gondolas
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printe...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, 'Mady de la Houssaye' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mady de la Houssaye in Martinique, March 1973.
Slim Aarons
Mady de la Houssaye, Martinique, March 1973
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentar...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Swimmer and Sunbather, Tahoe' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An underwater swimmer and a sunbather at the Cal Neva Lodge on the shore of Lake Tahoe, 1959. The Cal Neva resort and casino straddles the border between Nevada and California and th...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slopes & Trails, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955.
This is an e...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Clifftop Pool, Barranca, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis' villa 'La Barranca', Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971.
Slim Aarons
'Clifftop Pool'
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: Slim Aarons, Acapulco, Vintage Poolside...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Modelling For Saks Fifth Avenue, 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 for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot.
This is an estate stamped a...
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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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Lambda
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
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Family Chair (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Matthews, descendant of H M Flagler co-founder of Palm Beach, sits in her great-grandfather’s favourite chair in front of the family mansion now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, April 1968
Slim Aarons
Family Chair...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Poolside in Arizona, Estate Edition (Vintage Midcentury Architecture)
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, Hotel Krone, Lech (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960
Slim Aarons
Hotel Krone, Lech
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Ice Bar in Lech (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Customers at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960.
Slim Aarons
Ice Bar in Lech (Hotel Krone)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
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 *
The Romantik Hotel Krone, located in the center of Lech is a historic hotel, operating since 1741, and offering ski-to-door access and a large spa area. Nearby are the ski areas of Lech, Warth and Zürs.
Internal: Vintage Ski, Vintage Ski Photography, Vintage Lech, Vintage Skiing at Lech, Vintage Apres...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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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
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Esta...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to right: Adam Butler, Reutie Bu...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Capote Cycling, Palm Springs, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Capote Cycling
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
1970: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) on his bicycle in Palm Springs, California. Author of several novels including 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' which was made into a film.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
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.
Internal: Vintage Literary photography, vintage writers, vintage glamour, vintage breakfast...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Paola Mussetti, 1982
Fiber print
Paola Mussetti, a science student from Turin, poses in a bikini in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1982. (Photo by Slim Aarons...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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