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 'Contessa Simona Fede Marzotto'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Contessa Simona Fede Marzotto
1988 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Contessa ...
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1980s 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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Slim Aarons 'Alison Cain in Capri'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Alison Cain in Capri
1989
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
US fashion model Alison Cain with ...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Holiday Hair Check
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holiday Hair Check
1958
Silver gelatin print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Faith Gibbons checks her hair in t...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Chalet Costi (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Chalet Costi
1968
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Skiers outside t...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Cecily Godfrey in Hong Kong'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cecily Godfrey, Hong Kong
1979 (printed later)
Lambda C-print
Estate Edition of 150
Cecily Godfrey relaxes by the pool at her home in Hong Kong, 1979. Her husband Gerald...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Cecily Godfrey in Hong Kong'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cecily Godfrey, Hong Kong
1979 (printed later)
Lambda C-print
Estate Edition of 150
Cecily Godfrey relaxes by the pool at her home in Hong Kong, 1979. Her husband Gerald...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Tania Mallet'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Ma...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Leisure Time In Acapulco (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Leisure Time In Acapulco, 1978
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A woman in a sunhat enjoys a drink in a swimming pool, Acapulco, Mexico, Ja...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Esther Williams Poolside (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams in Florida in 1955.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons (191...
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Royal Winner, HM Queen Elizabeth II
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Royal Winner, Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth II
1955 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
1955: Prince Philip, captain of the Windsor Park Team, with the Windsor Cup...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Catherine Wilke Relaxing' (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Catherine Wilke Relaxing
1980
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Catherine Wilke...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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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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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Funk in Tuscany'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Funk in Tuscany
1969
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
Italian fashion designer, model and soci...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Peggy Guggenheim at Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni, Venice'
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 Picasso's 'On the Beach', pictured to ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Capucine'
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 mainl...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe)'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle' had been rele...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons 'Take It Salvador Dali'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Take It Salvador Dali
1970
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
September 1970: With some of his works at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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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 certif...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Villa In Sotogrande'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Villa at Sotogrande
1975
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
Alfonso Zobel De Ayala at a villa in Sotogrande, Andalusia, Spain, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand num...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Ester Williams
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Esther Williams
1956
C print
30 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
American swimmer and actress Esther ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Ursula Andress (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Swiss actress Ursula Andress poses in a hammock, in Rome, Italy, circa 1955
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Plantation Cocoyer
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Plantation Cocoyer
People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981.
Paper size 20 x 30 inches / 51 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Rita Aarons'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Rita Aarons
1955
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, during the...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Anchorage Hotel, Antigua (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Anchorage Hotel, Antigua, 1960
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A view of the Anchorage Hotel on Dickenson Bay, Antigua in the West Indies, 1960. Built by a Scottish c...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Montecatini (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Joan Collins Relaxes, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Slim Aarons
Joan Collins Relaxes, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Joan Collins Relaxes, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film star Joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her pink bed.
Slim Aarons
Joan Collins Relaxes, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Pebble Beach Hunt, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders gather in the courtyard of Richard Collins' House for the stirrup cup libation, before the start of the Pebble Beach Hunt of English and American foxhounds, November 1976. The...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Pink Accessory, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1955: Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle.
Slim Aarons
Pink Accessory, Estate Edition
Chromogenic Lambda print
1955, Printed Later...
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1950s 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, French Stately Home
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
French Stately Home
1956
C print
40 x 40 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
Paper size 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Pulitzer on the Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Pulitzer on the Beach, 1955
Fiber print
Estate Edition of 150
Patsy Pulitzer (nee Patsy Bartlett) at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Estate stamped and hand num...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper
Slim Aarons, Holiday Hair Check
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holiday Hair Check, 1958
Silver gelatin print
20 x 16 inches
Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda, 1958. She is ...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
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 authenti...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Two-Tone Dress
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Two-Tone Dress
1960
C print
30 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Mrs Christopher Ward...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Dali's Party'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Dali's Party
1959
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
circa 1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dal...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
'Beauty and the Beast' Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
1959 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Ca...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Social Call, Las Brisas, Acapulco (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Social Call, Las Brisas, Acapulco, 1972
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Cha...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Tania Mallet in the Bahamas (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Montecatini (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marie-Louise Scio at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, June 1980.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Decked in Finery
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Decked in Finery, 1956
Fiber Print
Estate edition of 150
An unknown guest at a New Year's Eve party held at the Romanoff Restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Taken on t...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Crowded Kitzbühel, Austria, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers making their way between the slopes in Kitzbühel, Austria.
This is an estate stamped and...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Fan Mail (Marilyn Monroe)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), wearing a red negligee trimmed with black lace, sorts out her fan mail shortly after her film 'The Asphalt Jungle' had been rele...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
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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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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Madame Jean Serpieri (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of m...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Marguerite Pindling, Bahama, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Dame Marguerite Pindling, Lady Pindling with her children Obafemi, Leslie, Monique and Mi...
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Marguerite Pindling, Bahama, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Dame Marguerite Pindling, Lady Pindling with her children Obafemi, Leslie, Monique and Mi...
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Marguerite Pindling, Bahama, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Dame Marguerite Pindling, Lady Pindling with her children Obafemi, Leslie, Monique and Mi...
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Al Fresco Bedroom (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Caption: Bedford, New York resident Mary Jane Russell poses with her cats on a four-poster style bed laid out on the lawn, 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with...
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Bohemia's Barracks (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Artistic denizens gather in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel on W. 23rd Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1968. Clockwise from left, Photographer Sandra Daley, architect Nicholas Quenn...
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Slim Aarons Estate Print - Hotel Sports 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hotel Sports
Holidaymakers water-skiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
Paper size 30 x 20" inches / 76 x 51 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Bond Girl to Be
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Bond Girl to Be, 1955
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Sultry sex...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Patsy Pulitzer, Seaplane At Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Patsy Pulitzer, Seaplane At Palm Beach
Chromogenic print, 1955
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity...
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1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
The Marlboroughs, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 - 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the family seat in Oxford...
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