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Realist Portrait 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
Dining In Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers at a ski lodge at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961. This is an estate stam...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Dining In Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Dining In Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Dining In Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1961 - Printed Later

$2,400
Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women in knitwear, leaning on ski sticks, while standing in the Stowe Mountain ski r...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1962 - Printed Later

$3,900
Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two bikini-clad holidaymakers posing outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, in the south of ...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1964 - printed later

$5,400
Photographic print, hand signed and inscribed by Helen Frankenthaler, framed
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in New York, NY
Helen Frankenthaler Hand signed and inscribed photograph, ca. 1987 Photograph printed on offset lithograph Hand signed and inscribed by Helen Frankenthaler on the front Frame Include...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lithograph, Offset

Photographic print, hand signed and inscribed by Helen Frankenthaler, framed
Photographic print, hand signed and inscribed by Helen Frankenthaler, framed

Photographic print, hand signed and inscribed by Helen Frankenthaler, framed, ca. 1987

$2,800
Peter Beard -4 unique portraits of concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, Signed
By Peter Beard
Located in New York, NY
Peter Beard Portraits of classical concert pianist Concert Pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen in artists frame, 2006 Four (4) separate Chromogenic prints (c-print) in artist's frame. Hand...
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Early 2000s Realist Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print

Peter Beard -4 unique portraits of concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, Signed
Peter Beard -4 unique portraits of concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, Signed

Peter Beard
Peter Beard -4 unique portraits of concert pianist Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen, Signed, 2006

$7,500
Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the glass-fronted triangular Skaal House, lit up at night, in the Stowe Mountain ski res...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1962

$1,800
Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the glass-fronted triangular Skaal House, lit up at night, in the Stowe Mountain ski res...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skaal House In Stowe, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1962

$2,400
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, New England, Estate Edition Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features three skiers inspecting their skis on the slopes of the Sugarbush Mountain ski resort in ...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, New England, Estate Edition Photograph
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, New England, Estate Edition Photograph

Slim Aarons
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, New England, Estate Edition Photograph, 1960 - Printed Later

$1,800
Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Gloria Andion posing in front of shooting and hunting trophies at the Zidlochovice castle in Morav...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1983 - Printed Later

$1,800
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, wife of senator Leverett Saltonstall in Palm Beach, USA. T...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Alice Wesselhoeft Saltonstall, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1958 - Printed Later

$1,800
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Suspenders Amidst the Cattails
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas Signed in red, u.l. $6500.00 + $300.00 framing This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. “Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure in the modern art mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Photography

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Canvas, Oil

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Suspenders Amidst the Cattails

Mark Beard
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man in Suspenders Amidst the Cattails, n.d.

$6,800
Portrait of Model with Chain
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 9 x 11 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso. Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italia...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of Model with Chain
Portrait of Model with Chain

Victor Arimondi
Portrait of Model with Chain, ca. 1975

$800
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in M...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1968 - Printed Later

$5,400
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in M...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1968 - Printed Later

$2,400
Skiers In St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963. This is an estate stamped and hand numbere...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Skiers In St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition Photograph
Skiers In St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiers In St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition Photograph, 1963 - Printed Later

$3,600
Winter Wear, Estate Edition, Cortina d Ampezzo, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, March 1976 Two women in festive sweaters, vintage colorful red and striped leggings, and glamorous furry boots...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Winter Wear, Estate Edition, Cortina d Ampezzo, Italy
Winter Wear, Estate Edition, Cortina d Ampezzo, Italy

Slim Aarons
Winter Wear, Estate Edition, Cortina d Ampezzo, Italy, 1976

$3,900
Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in the Austrian ski resort of Lech, February 1979. This is an estat...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1979 - Printed Later

$1,800
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in M...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Snowmass Village, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1968 - Printed Later

$3,900
Japan – Tokyo, The Yoshiwara Prostitute Houses
Located in Middletown, NY
Original Photograph / Photographer unattributed Yokohama, Japan: c 1890. Hand-tinted albumen print, 8 x 10 1/2 (204 x 266 mm), uncaptioned, some cockling at top corners; pencil ins...
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography

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Watercolor, Photographic Paper

Japan – Tokyo, The Yoshiwara Prostitute Houses
Japan – Tokyo, The Yoshiwara Prostitute Houses

Japan – Tokyo, The Yoshiwara Prostitute Houses, 1890

$300
Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two bikini-clad holidaymakers posing outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, in the south of ...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Cannes Cannes Girls, France, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1964 - printed later

$1,800
Frank Sinatra, 1965 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
By Bob Willoughby
Located in London, GB
Frank Sinatra, 1965 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography) Archival pigment print Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper From an edition of 25 Also available in alternative sizes Bob Wi...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Frank Sinatra, 1965 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Frank Sinatra, 1965 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)

Bob Willoughby
Frank Sinatra, 1965 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography), 1965

$3,000
Princess Caroline Of Monaco, Monte Carlo, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Princess Caroline of Monaco in the winter-garden room of her house on the palace grounds, Monte Ca...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Princess Caroline Of Monaco, Monte Carlo, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern
Princess Caroline Of Monaco, Monte Carlo, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern

Slim Aarons
Princess Caroline Of Monaco, Monte Carlo, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern, 1981 - Printed Later

$1,800
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 t...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Top People s Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Top People s Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Top People s Eatery, San Francisco, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1974-printed later

$5,400
Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an exclusive gambling table at the casino in Deauville, France, 1970. This is an estate stamped and han...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1970 - Printed Later

$1,800
Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an exclusive gambling table at the casino in Deauville, France, 1970. This is an estate stamped and han...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Deauville Casino, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1970 - Printed Later

$3,900
Portrait of Man in Denim
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait, ca. 1975. Period print measures 9 x 12 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso. Victor Arimondi (November 8, 1942 – July 24, 2001) was an Italian American photographer and model who lived and worked in Europe before moving to the United States in the late 1970s. His early fashion photography, his portraits of Grace Jones and other artists, and his male nudes photographed in New York and San Francisco captured the pre-AIDS culture of the 1970s and early 1980s. Arimondi's nudes were collected in several books, including David Leddick's award-winning[1] The Male Nude, (New York: Taschen 1998, 2005 and 2015). The photographer's later work documented homeless individuals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood and the toll of the AIDS epidemic on the city. His photographs, featured in several posthumous exhibitions, also are in the collections of Sweden's museum of modern art, Moderna Museet, and San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society. Biography Arimondi was born Vittorio Maria Tevitti to his unwed mother, Alessandra Calligaris, in Bologna, Italy on November 8, 1942. His mother struggled financially, which left an impression on her only child. In 1948, she temporarily left him at a children's boarding school and orphanage in Italy to move to Sweden for a job. There she met and married Bruno Arimondi, who adopted her son. The family returned to Naples, Italy in 1952 where Victor graduated from high school.[1] In 1960, Arimondi returned to Sweden to study at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, although he did not graduate. Meanwhile, he worked at several blue collar jobs, including as a mailman, before he gave up on traditional full-time work to pursue what he considered more essential— a life of creative expression. He created costume-like clothing for himself and friends and at age 19 became a fashion model. Even as a teenager, the Italian born photographer who spent his 20s and 30s primarily based in Sweden, noted that he preferred fantasy to the trials of real life.[1] That conflict, and his passion for beauty as well as his sexual energy, were major factors in his life and his work.[2] From 1965 through 1972 Arimondi worked as model in London, Milan, Germany, New York and Stockholm, appearing in catalogs and fashion magazines including Vogue , Harper's Bazaar and Esquire and on the runway in several Valentino fashion shows. In 1972 he decided to try working on the other side of the lens as a photographer to better express his creativity.[2] Arimondi moved to New York in 1979 and continued to build his photography portfolio. Portrait of Bearded Man, New York City, 1979 Two years later, in 1981, he moved to San Francisco where he lived and worked for twenty years until his death of AIDS at age 58 on July 24, 2001. The year he moved to San Francisco, Arimondi opened a photo gallery in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood for a short time. When he struggled financially, he gave up on trying to earn a living through commercial fashion photography and closed the gallery.[3] Arimondi returned to modeling for the financial benefits, though he did so on less of an international scale than in his early years. He continued to create photographic portraits of the denizens of the San Francisco gay and arts cultures, to shoot male nudes and publish his work in magazines, and he began to compose and photograph evocative still lifes using his own photographic images. Many of them touched on the death of dozens of his former photography models from AIDS. Arimondi was in the midst of a new photography project that brought together his background as a fashion photographer and his more recent social documentary work when he died several months after he learned he was HIV-positive.[4] The project featured his former colleague, haute couture cover model Ivy Nicholson,[5] who he found living homeless in San Francisco. Several of the haunting portraits he took of her were later included in a noted group exhibit at SF Camerawork. Art Arimondi's early photography in the 1970s in Stockholm included portraits of the stars of Sweden's fashion, theater and dance worlds. His first two photography exhibits were in Stockholm and met with mixed reviews. But as he matured as a photographer and tapped into his fashion world contacts, Arimondi landed a number of commercial fashion jobs, including shooting for the Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.'s I.Magnin department store ad that ran in Vogue. Marlboro Man Nude, New York City,1980. He also shot other artists and models for his own portfolio, including Grace Jones, the Norwegian actress, Liv Ullmann, and the American writer, Norman Mailer. Arimondi's aesthetic vision was focused on fantasy and drama, and he prided himself on pushing limits.[6] Although less well-known than his San Francisco contemporary...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Portrait of Man in Denim
Portrait of Man in Denim

Victor Arimondi
Portrait of Man in Denim, ca. 1975

$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...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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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

$1,800
Courchevel, France, 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 a skiing holiday in Courchevel, France. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 15...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Courchevel, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Courchevel, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Courchevel, France, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1970 - Printed Later

$2,400
Princess Lucy Ruspoli, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Princess Lucy Ruspoli at Rougemont, near Gstaad, Switzerland, February 1984. This is an estate stam...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Princess Lucy Ruspoli, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern
Princess Lucy Ruspoli, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern

Slim Aarons
Princess Lucy Ruspoli, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern, 1984 - Printed Later

$1,800
Ursula Pacelli, Venice, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ursula Pacelli posing at the Venice Lido, Venice, Italy, 1957. This is an estate stamped and hand n...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Ursula Pacelli, Venice, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Ursula Pacelli, Venice, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Ursula Pacelli, Venice, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1957 - Printed Later

$1,800
Kings Of Hollywood, Beverly Hill, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Kings Of Hollywood, Beverly Hill, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Kings Of Hollywood, Beverly Hill, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Kings Of Hollywood, Beverly Hill, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1957 - Printed Later

$2,400
Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Gloria Andion posing in front of shooting and hunting trophies at the Zidlochovice castle in Morav...
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1980s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Gloria Andion, Czech Republic, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1983 - Printed Later

$2,400
Untitled, (Leatherman Cowboy), Castro, San Francisco.
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fisher Ross. Untitled, ca. 1975-80. Gelatin Silver print, sheet measures 8 x 10 inches. Artist studio stamp on verso. Good condition with some rippling in ...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled, (Leatherman Cowboy), Castro, San Francisco.
Untitled, (Leatherman Cowboy), Castro, San Francisco.

Fisher Ross
Untitled, (Leatherman Cowboy), Castro, San Francisco., ca. 1978

$1,050 Sale Price
30% Off
Japan – A geisha playing the gekkin - Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: c 1880's. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/8 x 8 inches (258 x 203 mm), unmounted; pencil inscription in Japanese on verso; light cockling [Nagasaki University Libra...
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography

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Watercolor, Photographic Paper

Japan – A geisha playing the gekkin - Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph
Japan – A geisha playing the gekkin - Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph

Japan – A geisha playing the gekkin - Hand-colored Meiji Period photograph, 1880

$375
Untitled, Senegalese model
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Victor Arimondi (1942-2001). Portrait of Senegalese Model, ca. 1975. Period print measures 8.5 x 11.5 inches; 17 x 20 inches frames. Artist studio stam...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

Untitled, Senegalese model
Untitled, Senegalese model

Victor Arimondi
Untitled, Senegalese model, Ca. 1975

$1,200 Sale Price
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Japan – Kimya-Bashi (Bridge), Nagasaki w/ 2 rickshaws – Hand-colored photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Yokohama, Japan: circa 1890. Hand-tinted albumen print, 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches (200 x 260 mm); hand numbered 64 in negative and captioned at lower left; light cockling at top left co...
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography

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Watercolor, Photographic Paper

Japan – Kimya-Bashi (Bridge), Nagasaki w/ 2 rickshaws – Hand-colored photograph

Japan – Kimya-Bashi (Bridge), Nagasaki w/ 2 rickshaws – Hand-colored photograph, 1890

$550
Mrs. A. Watson Armour III, Illinois, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Mrs. A. Watson Armour III walking with her poodles on her Lake Forest Estate, Illinois, USA. T...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Mrs. A. Watson Armour III, Illinois, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Mrs. A. Watson Armour III, Illinois, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Mrs. A. Watson Armour III, Illinois, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1960 - Printed Later

$3,600
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Nelda Linsk (left, in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk with guests by the pool at the Li...
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1970s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Palm Springs Life, Palm Springs, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

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

$1,800
Slim Aarons Family Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
circa 1960: Mrs A Watson Armour III (Jean Schweppe) with friends and family enjoying the pool on their estate at Lake Forest, Illinois. A Wonderful Time - Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Family Pool 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 Lake Forest, Vintage Poolside Glamour, Vintage Sport, Swimming, Vintage Holiday, 60s, vintage Illinois...
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1960s Realist Portrait Photography

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Lambda

Slim Aarons Family Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons Family Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Family Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1957

$4,200
Japan – Two young women playing hanetsuki (badminton) – Hand-colored photograph
Located in Middletown, NY
Two young women playing hanetsuki (badminton/battledore/shuttlecock), studio photograph. Yokohama, Japan: c 1890. Hand-tinted albumen print, 10 1/2 x...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Watercolor, Photographic Paper

Japan – Two young women playing hanetsuki (badminton) – Hand-colored photograph

Japan – Two young women playing hanetsuki (badminton) – Hand-colored photograph, 1890

$400
Marsha Gayle on Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marsha Gayle of Paris enjoying a deserted beach near Calabash Bay, Andros, Bahamas. This ...
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1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Marsha Gayle on Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Marsha Gayle on Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Marsha Gayle on Andros Island, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1957-printed later

$1,800
Black Pearl Trippers
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Henry B. Cabot Jr. (standing, centre) with his son Henry Bromfield Cabot III and their host Barclay (Buzzy) H Warburton III (in striped shirt) aboard the brigantine 'Black Pearl', ci...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Black Pearl Trippers
Black Pearl Trippers

Slim Aarons
Black Pearl Trippers, 1959

$3,900
Lech Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers enjoy a drink by the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria. This is an estate stampe...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Lech Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Lech Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Lech Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1960 - Printed Later

$2,400
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate sta...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$1,800
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate sta...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$2,400
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate sta...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$3,000
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate sta...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$3,900
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate sta...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$4,200
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers standing next to snow covered trees in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate sta...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Colorado, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$5,400
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960 photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria. This is an ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1960 - Printed Later

$1,800
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960 photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria. This is an ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1960 - Printed Later

$2,400
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960 photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria. This is an ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1960 - Printed Later

$3,000
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960 photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a bartender mixes a drink for a customer at the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria. This is an ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Lech Ice Bar, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1960 - Printed Later

$3,600
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$1,800
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$2,400
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$3,000
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of skiers stand in line waiting for the ski lift in Vail, Colorado, USA. This is an estate ...
Category

1960s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In Vail, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1964 - Printed Later

$3,600
Skiing In St. Moritz, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace Hotel sleigh on Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland. This is an estate ...
Category

1980s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing In St. Moritz, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Skiing In St. Moritz, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing In St. Moritz, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1983 - Printed Later

$4,200
New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire. This is an estate stam...
Category

1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$1,800
New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women recline on improvised sunbeds in Cranmore Mountain, New Hampshire. This is an estate stam...
Category

1950s Realist Portrait Photography

Materials

Lambda

New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
New England Skiing, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1955 - Printed Later

$2,400

Realist portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist portrait 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 portrait 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, pink, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Bob Willoughby, Mitchell Funk, 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 portrait photography, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait 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 $380 and tops out at $75,000, while the average work sells for $3,000.

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