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
Slim Aarons 'Mary McFadden'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A couple at a swimming pool near Lake Tahoe, California, 1959. The line on the bottom of the pool marks the state line between Nevada and California.
Estate stamped and hand numbere...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Paraglider, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a young blonde woman preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco.
This is an estate stampe...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rudulph Ellis Carter holding a picnic in Newport in 1987.
This is an estate stamped and ...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Newport Mainstays, Newport, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Rudulph Ellis Carter holding a picnic in Newport in 1987.
This is an estate stamped and ...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Mrs. George (Daphne) Cameron
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Mrs. George (Daphne) Cameron
1959
C print
30 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
1959, Mrs. George (Daph...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Twice Blessed, Princess Laudomia Hercolani
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Twice Blessed, Princess Laudomia Hercolani, 1960
Chromogenic print
24 x 20 inches
state signature stamped edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity
1960: Framed in a rustic wi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim in Venice'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Peggy Guggenheim in Venice
1978
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate
Septemb...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Joan Collins Relaxes (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaron...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Sugarbush Ice Bar
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Ski Fashion At Sugarbush
1960
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
American socialite and fashion writer Nan Kempner (1930 - 2005) at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Underwater Drink (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Underwater Drink, 1972
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A woman drinking from a...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Montecatini
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Montecatini
1980
C-print
Edition of 150
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Peter and Britt, 1967
Sharing a lilo, film stars Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) and his glamorous wife model and actress, Britt Ekland spend their holiday on...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Karen Kopseng Davis at Casa de Campo'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Karen Kopseng Davis
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American-born opera...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Canova Sculpture at the Villa Borghese'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Canova Sculpture at the Villa Borghese
1970
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
'Pauline Bonaparte...
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1970s Modern 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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Peggy Guggenheim (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
September 1978: Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979) in the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice. The palace houses her private art collection, including Picass...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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'Esther Williams' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool At Las Brisas'
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956.
Paper size 30 x 30" inches / 76 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Col...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Karen Kopseng Davis at Casa de Campo'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Karen Kopseng Davis
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American-born opera...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Style 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
1956 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Monocled Miss (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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.
S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Francine Brandt in Acapulco
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Francine Brandt, 1961
C print
40 x 40 inches
Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Melina Mercouri in Athens (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Melina Mercouri
1961 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Actress Melina Mercouri ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons Style 'Inga Lindgren And Poodles'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Inga Lindgren And Poodles
1956 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Lily On The Riviera (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lily On The Riviera
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
French soprano Lily P...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Carmen Sevilla in Madrid (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Carmen Sevilla
1957 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Spanish actress and singer...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet in Eleuthera' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Tania Mallet, 1961
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
CZ Guest (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption:NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 1962: Socialite Mrs. Winston Guest holding poodle poolside.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from t...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Dolores Guinness in Sardinia (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Dolores Guinness in Sardinia
1984
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
German-born socialite Dolore...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Nina Dyer (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nina Dyer
1958 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Fashion model Nina Dyer, wife o...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Skiing In St. Moritz, Palace Hotel'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing In St. Moritz
1983
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace H...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Burgenstock'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977.
C print
estate edition of 150
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Lilian Ha...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski
1963 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
Estate stamped ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Burgenstock'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977.
C print
estate edition of 150
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Lilian Ha...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine
1957
Fiber print
30 x 20 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly f...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness, Sardinia
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool, 1959
C print
20 x 16 inches
Estate edition of 150
Dolores Guinness, 1965: Catching the sun's last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia.
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Tiger Morris in New York (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tiger Morris
1964 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Socialite and fashion design...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (...
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Slim Aarons 'Norina Pisciotto'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Paola Mussetti, 1982
C print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Norina Pisciotto poses at the v...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Alexandra Redo in Mazatlán (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Alexandra Redo
1984
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Alexandra Redo reclining among Mayan statues...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Julie London' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1957: Singer Julie London enjoying breakfast in bed at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
S...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Apres Ski, Gstaad (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Apres Ski
1963 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A group of women reclining on the snow in Gstaad with rugs covering their knees, 1963.
Estate stamped ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Capucine (Slim Aarons estate edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capucine
1957
Fiber print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly f...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Minny Crushing Surfing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American society girl Minnie Cushing carries her surfboard under her arm, September 1965.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the e...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Model Gr...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Nancy Borland (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Nancy Borland
1976 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Mrs. William (Nancy) Borland, daughter of Pebble Beach developer Samuel...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Monocled Miss (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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.
S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Capri Cruise (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Capri Cruise, 1958
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Princess Laudomia Hercolani (in blue) and friends enjoy an on-deck siesta whilst cruising near Capri, July 1958.
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Slim Aarons 'Sunbathing In Burgenstock'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Coral Beach, Bermuda, 1977.
C print
estate edition of 150
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Lilian Ha...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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 Des...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Sunbathing In Burgenstock
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, 1955
C print
30 x 40 inches
Lilian Hanson, sunbathing by a pool at the Burgenstock Resort in Canton Nidwalden, Sw...
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1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Holiday Hair Check
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holiday Hair Check, 1958
Silver gelatin print
20 x 30inches
Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda, 1958. She is wearing a striped Irish linen overb...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Beauty and the Beast (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Beauty and the Beast
1959
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Came...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Sun Worship (Aarons Estate Edition)
1958
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini.
Estate stamped and hand numbered...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Christian de Sica And Elsa Martinelli in Gstaad'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christian de Sica and Elsa Martinelli
1977 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
I...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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