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
'New England Skiing' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire, 1955...
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Barbados Bliss (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss (1976) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea
Barbados, 1976.
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Dolores Del Rio (1952) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Del Rio (1952) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Mexican film star Dolores Del Rio (1905 – 1983) swimming in Acapulco,
Mexi...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz (1949) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Premium Rates Apply. 1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Arm...
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1940s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
Two female skiers outside the Carroll Reed...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Staying At The Carlton (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Staying At The Carlton (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Guests at the entrance to the Carlton Hotel,
Cannes, France, 1958.
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Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons/Getty Images Archive)
Two women recline on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1990s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) socialising at a party in San Francisco.
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Palm Beach (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach,
Florida, USA, 1955.
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Young Society (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Young Society (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
Young matrons of Palm Beach, Florida. Most of them are wearing a gaily coloured Lilly Pulitzer shift,
A...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar (1960) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
(Photo by Slim Aarons)
A bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech,
Austria, 1960.
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Saks Fifth Avenue, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young woman modelling an outfit for a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog shoot, circa 1955.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
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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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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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Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ski Siren, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Model Barbara...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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New Year at Romanoff's
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (1908 - 1997) enjoy a joke at a New Year's party held at R...
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1940s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Emulsion, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Californian Party, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1990s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Belgian born actress Audrey Hepburn (1929 - 1993) socialising at a party in San Francisco.
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Acapulco Lunch
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A long afternoon lunch at Acapulco. Among the guest are (from left to right) film star Douglas Fairbanks Junior (1909 - 2000), couturiers Oscar de la Renta, and standing behind him E...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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All Mine, Lake Worth, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Wort...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Midcentury New Hampshire Snowscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this midcentury snowscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, two women recline on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hamp...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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New England Skiing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young skier prefers to carry his skis down the slope in New Hampshire, 1955.
New England Skiing
Black and White Photography
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Gordon C. MacKenzie, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the race driver Gordon C. MacKenzie in Franconia, New Hampshire.
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Winter Suntans, Gstaad, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s group portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features young women enjoy a relaxing sunbathe in snowy Gstaad.
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Palm Bay Club
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young woman at the Palm Bay Club, Miami, Florida, USA, circa 1965
Slim Aarons
Palm Bay Club
Black and White Photography
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Kennedy And Friends
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Senator John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Shirley Rogan Ellis and Betty LoSavio at Montego Bay Airport, Jamaica.
Slim Aarons
Kennedy And Friends
Black and White Photography
Slim Aarons...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Pool at Lake Tahoe, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sierra Nevada Mountains
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph by iconic mid-century photographer Slim Aarons depicts bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Party At Romanoff's, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party at Romanoff's in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Modern es...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Rockefeller Brothers, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Rockefeller brothers in their Radio City, New York office. Left to right, Laurance (1910 - 2...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, January 1970.
Slim Aarons Estate E...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons 'Il Pellicano Tennis'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Il Pellicano Tennis
1955 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
An Aston Martin DB6 sports car dr...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Salvador Dali: Take It: Estate Edition Photograph [Iconic Surrealist, Modernist]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
September 1970: With some of his mystical artwork at Port Ligat, Costa Brava, painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) in a characteristic pose with his trademark walking-stick in vibrant purple dress. In the background, the magical, mysterious, artistic and alchemical mix, with white and sepia-toned curtains and classic photographs on display. The vintage and classic mingles with the bizarre and strange in this historic photograph of an avant-garde legend.
Salvador Dali: Take It, 1970
Slim Aarons Estate Edition Photograph
Lambda Print
Estate Embossed with 2 Certificates of Authenticity
Printed Later
4 sizes available
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol gcYC (/ˈdɑːli, dɑːˈliː/;[1] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli]; Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli];[2] 11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931, and is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments.
Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. His public support for the Francoist regime, his commercial activities and the quality and authenticity of some of his late works have also been controversial. His life and work were an important influence on other Surrealists, pop art and contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
There are two major museums devoted to Salvador Dalí's work: the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, and the Salvador Dalí Museum...
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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.
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On the Sugarbush Slopes, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr playing backgammon with Betsy Pickering on a polar bear rug at his chalet at the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in in Warren...
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Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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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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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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Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960.
This is a...
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Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960.
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Skiers At Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This earl 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at the Sugarbush Resort, Vermont, USA, April 1960.
This is a...
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Windsors In Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s figurative photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duke and Duchess of Windsor walking their dog in Portofino in 1951.
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Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece. Taken in July 1961, the photograph shows a group of you...
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Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
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Commander Whitehead
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Commander Edward Whitehead (1908 - 1978), the public face of Schweppes, leans on a silver Rolls Royce at Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. Commander Whitehead served in ...
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Top People's Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the...
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Marbella Club, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a guest taking a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain.
This is an esta...
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Marbella Club, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a guest taking a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain.
This is an esta...
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Poolside In Kenya, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sitting at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
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Poolside In Kenya, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sitting at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
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Poolside In Kenya, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sitting at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
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Poolside In Kenya, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sitting at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
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Slim Aarons 'Man Ray in Paris' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954)
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Man Ray in Paris
1956 printed later
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Madame Jean Serpieri
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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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Waiting in the Shade, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman shelters under a parasol on a beach on the Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, 1967.
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Slim Aarons - Bettina Graziani - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 – 2015) adjusting the sail of a boat, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, 1964.
Gor...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chalet Costi, Zermatt, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers outside the Ch...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at Cortina D...
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Capote's House, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Capote's House
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
American writer Truman Capote's house in Palm Springs, California, January 1970.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
10 x 12 inches
$1350
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
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Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
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Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Pop and Society (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Pop and Society (Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger)
Chromogenic lambda print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
1968: From lef...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
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