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Realist Figurative Photography

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
Christmas Traffic, New York, Estate Edition, Long-exposure Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s urban landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Christmas trees and red and white automobile light trails on Park Avenue, New York...
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1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Christmas Traffic, New York, Estate Edition, Long-exposure Photograph
Christmas Traffic, New York, Estate Edition, Long-exposure Photograph

Slim Aarons
Christmas Traffic, New York, Estate Edition, Long-exposure Photograph, 1953, printed later

$1,800
Monte Carlo, Monaco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features friends boarding a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco, This is an estate stamped and hand n...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Monte Carlo, Monaco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Monte Carlo, Monaco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Monte Carlo, Monaco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1975, Printed Later

$1,800
Slim Aarons Keep Your Cool Midcentury Modern Photography - Backgammon
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco. Keep Your Cool 1978 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons Keep Your Cool Midcentury Modern Photography - Backgammon
Slim Aarons Keep Your Cool Midcentury Modern Photography - Backgammon

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Keep Your Cool Midcentury Modern Photography - Backgammon, 1978

$5,400
Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carring a wine in an ice bucket and the third carrying a menu, Stowe, Ve...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo
Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo

Slim Aarons
Skiing Waiters, 1955, Mid-century Modern Photo, 1955, printed later

$5,400
Tres Vidas, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing in the shade at the Tres Vidas private members club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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C Print

Tres Vidas, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Tres Vidas, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Tres Vidas, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1975 - Printed Later

$2,400
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jonas Akerman with his wife Lillemor Malmstrom and their children in their villa in Provence, Franc...
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1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1989 - Printed Later

$3,000
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jonas Akerman with his wife Lillemor Malmstrom and their children in their villa in Provence, Franc...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1989 - Printed Later

$3,600
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jonas Akerman with his wife Lillemor Malmstrom and their children in their villa in Provence, Franc...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Holiday In Provence, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1989 - Printed Later

$3,900
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is an...
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1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$1,800
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is an...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$3,000
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is an...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$3,600
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is an...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$3,900
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features winemaker Daniel Gainey and his wife out riding at their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is an...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Daniel Gainey, Arizona, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$4,200
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Linda Shaw emerging from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971. This is an estate stamped and ha...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$1,800
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Linda Shaw emerging from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971. This is an estate stamped and ha...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$2,400
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Linda Shaw emerging from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971. This is an estate stamped and ha...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$3,600
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Linda Shaw emerging from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971. This is an estate stamped and ha...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$3,900
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Linda Shaw emerging from a swimming pool in Singapore, May 1971. This is an estate stamped and ha...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Linda Shaw, Singapore, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1971 - Printed Later

$4,200
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poolside party at a desert house, designed by Richard Neutra for Edgar J. Kaufmann, in ...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Springs Party, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970 - printed later

$5,400
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera bea...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1979, Printed Later

$1,800
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera bea...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1979, Printed Later

$4,200
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
This vintage exhibition poster features a David Hockney photographic collage. A young man with a mop of curls wearing brown leather loafers crouches over his camera, reloading its f...
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1980s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lithograph

Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink

(after) David Hockney
Vintage David Hockney Poster Gregory Loading His Camera 1983 in millennial pink, 1983

$195
Saint-Tropez
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the deck of yacht in Saint-Tropez, France, August 1971. 40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 20 x 30 inches $3000 10 x 12 inches $1350 Complimentary dealer...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez

Slim Aarons
Saint-Tropez, 1971

$3,900
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island. This is an estate stamped and hand num...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1957-printed later

$4,200
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a quiet beach on Andros Island. This is an estate stamped and hand num...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1957-printed later

$1,800
Stocking Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s aerial seascape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a high angle view of people swimming next to the ketch 'Traveler II' , Stocking Isla...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Stocking Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Stocking Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Stocking Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1964, Printed Later

$1,800
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a helicopter arriving at a mo...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1961

$2,400
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera bea...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1979, Printed Later

$3,900
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachu...
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1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Campbell Falls Picnic, Massachusetts, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1959, printed later

$3,000
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s maritime photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the British ocean liner 'SS Queen of Bermuda' in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda. This is an es...
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1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph

Slim Aarons
SS Queen Of Bermuda, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Maritime Photograph, 1957, printed later

$2,400
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974. 20 x 30 inches $3000 20 x 24 inches $2500 16 x 20 inches $2150 ...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Ladies Of Lyford Cay
Ladies Of Lyford Cay

Slim Aarons
Ladies Of Lyford Cay, 1974

$3,000
Bettina Graziani, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French fashion model Bettina Graziani wading in the shallow waters of Costa Smeralda, pulling a small yacht behind her, in Sardinia, Italy, 1964. Visual description: This iconic photograph features a woman in a green bikini swimsuit and yellow hair wrap leading a small boat with a red and white sail and sunfish logo. In the background is a bright white villa and small sculptural trees, in crisp contrast to the sparkling water turquoise pool. The bright red diagonal strips of the boat's sail draw the eye down and across the picture to figure, who creates small waves as she wades through the blue water towards the right edge of the picture plane, creating an overall satisfying sense of cheerful motion and activity. Slim Aarons Bettina Graziani Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Collector will get the next number in the edition 60 x 60 inches $5100 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 16 x 16 inches $2150 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). * Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Slim Aarons French Fashion Model, Vintage European Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Boating, Vintage Holiday, 60s, Sardinia, Costa Smeralda, vintage summer. The Costa Smeralda ( 'Emerald Coast...
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1960s Realist Figurative Photography

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Lambda

Bettina Graziani, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.
Bettina Graziani, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed.

Slim Aarons
Bettina Graziani, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Estate Ed., 1964

$3,900
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera bea...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1979, Printed Later

$2,400
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera bea...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Positano Beach, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1979, Printed Later

$3,000
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida. This is an es...
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1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$5,400
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida. This is an es...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$4,200
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida. This is an es...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$3,900
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida. This is an es...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$3,600
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida. This is an es...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$3,000
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features socialite Alice Topping relaxing by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida. This is an es...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Pastels, Florida, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$2,400
Roca Llisa, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Fosca, Vera, and Fiona Bertran holidaying in Roca Llisa, on the island of Ibiza, Spain. This is an...
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1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Roca Llisa, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Roca Llisa, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Roca Llisa, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1978 - Printed Later

$3,000
Nude with Zinc Vessel - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Eric Kellerman (b. 1944)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. Eric Kellerman created this sensual nude photograph of a young nude woman with a large zinc vessel under her arm. It is pencil signed, titled and numbered 1 from an edition of 20. The photographer has stamped a red monogram next to his signature. Eric Kellerman is a Briton who has lived near Nijmegen in the Netherlands for just over half his life. In 2008, he retired from academic life to spend more time on photography. Kellerman works almost entirely in the studio and uses digital equipment from camera to print, although image manipulation is limited to darkroom-like processes. Specializing in the nude, he has a regular team of female collaborators, most of whom have a serious interest in movement (dance, drama therapy, athletics, martial arts). Kellerman used to consider his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. Now he's not so sure. He emphasizes line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. He likes to create ambiguity in his photos, so that the viewer is sometimes unsure what part of the body is being looked at. In this way, he attempts to free the female body of its conventional associations. He has been influenced by surrealism...
Category

Early 2000s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Digital

Nude with Zinc Vessel - In Celebration of Pride Month
Nude with Zinc Vessel - In Celebration of Pride Month

Eric Kellerman (b. 1944)
Nude with Zinc Vessel - In Celebration of Pride Month, 2003

$112 Sale Price
76% Off
Modern fine art photography still-life on premium matte paper "Latte love"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Title: "Latte love" Medium: Archival pigment print on premium matte photo paper Dimensions: 20 x 27 cm / 7.8 x 10.6 inches (unframed) Limited Edition Each photograph is printed only ...
Category

2010s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Modern fine art photography still-life on premium matte paper "Latte love"
Modern fine art photography still-life on premium matte paper "Latte love"

Mougenot Natalya
Modern fine art photography still-life on premium matte paper "Latte love", 2025

$268 Sale Price
20% Off
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. This is an estate...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Poolside In Kenya, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Poolside In Kenya, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside In Kenya, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1958, printed later

$1,800
On Board The Palawan, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1990s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Olive Watson (left) taking her friends out sailing off the coast of Maine on her yacht, P...
Category

1990s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

On Board The Palawan, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
On Board The Palawan, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
On Board The Palawan, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1992, printed later

$3,900
Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features spectators dining in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, Germany....
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1978, Printed Later

$2,400
Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features spectators dining in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, Germany....
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Racing At Baden Baden, Germany, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1978, Printed Later

$3,600
Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline. This ...
Category

1950s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1956 - printed later

$2,400
A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a man wearing diving equipment talking with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1967, printed later

$2,400
Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a crew member tending to the rigging on a yacht in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. This is an estate...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Sailing In Lyford Cay, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970-printed later

$2,400
Holidaymakers in Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers relaxing on a beach in Bermuda. This is an estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Holidaymakers in Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Holidaymakers in Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Holidaymakers in Bermuda, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1967, Printed Later

$2,400
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poodle entering a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France. This is an estate sta...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph, 1970, printed later

$4,200
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s urban photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a poodle entering a barber shop on a street in Deauville, Normandy, France. This is an estate sta...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Nicely Coiffed, France, Estate Edition, Cityscape Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800
Coming Ashore, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of t...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Coming Ashore, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Coming Ashore, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Coming Ashore, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1973, printed later

$3,000
A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a man wearing diving equipment talking with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas...
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
A Friendly Chat, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1967, printed later

$1,800
All Aboard, Monaco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of Friends boarding a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco. This is an estate stamped...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

All Aboard, Monaco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
All Aboard, Monaco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
All Aboard, Monaco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1975, printed later

$1,800
Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giacomo and Stefania Montegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como. 40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 2...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella
Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella

Slim Aarons
Giacomo Montegazza, Villa La Casinella, 1983

$3,900
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of colourfully dressed friends on board the Calypso clothing store owned boat, Bermuda. ...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$3,900
Beach Near Portinatx, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers at a beach near Portinatx, Ibiza, Spain. This is an estate stamped and han...
Category

1980s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Beach Near Portinatx, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
Beach Near Portinatx, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Beach Near Portinatx, Ibiza, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph, 1989, printed later

$1,800
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of colourfully dressed friends on board the Calypso clothing store owned boat, Bermuda. ...
Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970, printed later

$1,800

Realist figurative photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist figurative photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, red, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Ron Tarver, Graham Nash, and Milton Rogovin. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Lambda Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist figurative photography, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $105 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $3,000.

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