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Realist 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
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 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 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 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
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, 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 Mrs Charles Rogers sitting on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa Racquet Club pool,...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1961 - Printed Later

$1,800
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, 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 Mrs Charles Rogers sitting on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa Racquet Club pool,...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1961 - Printed Later

$2,400
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, 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 Mrs Charles Rogers sitting on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa Racquet Club pool,...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1961 - Printed Later

$3,000
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, 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 Mrs Charles Rogers sitting on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa Racquet Club pool,...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1961 - Printed Later

$3,600
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, 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 Mrs Charles Rogers sitting on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa Racquet Club pool,...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1961 - Printed Later

$3,900
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, 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 Mrs Charles Rogers sitting on a submerged bar stool in the Villa Vera Spa & Racquet Club pool, Aca...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Fruit Cocktail, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1961 - Printed Later

$4,200
Hotel Taormina, Sicily, 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 the seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975. This is an estate...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Hotel Taormina, Sicily, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Hotel Taormina, Sicily, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Hotel Taormina, Sicily, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1975 - Printed later

$1,800
Hotel Taormina, Sicily, 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 the seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina in Taormina, Sicily, August 1975. This is an estate...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Hotel Taormina, Sicily, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
Hotel Taormina, Sicily, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph

Slim Aarons
Hotel Taormina, Sicily, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph, 1975 - Printed later

$2,400
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

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

$2,400
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...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

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

$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...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

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

$3,600
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...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

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

$3,900
Yacht Holiday 1967, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Yacht Holiday' by Slim Aarons Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marbella, 1967. A group of bronzed young women captured from the back are seen enjoying the S...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Yacht Holiday 1967, Estate Edition
Yacht Holiday 1967, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Yacht Holiday 1967, Estate Edition, Modern estate printing from the original 1967 transparency

$5,400
4 unique portraits of Vietnamese 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...
Category

Early 2000s Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print

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

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

$7,500
Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ski 'bum' Alice Clement, a waitress and dishwasher at Stowe, Vermont when not on the slope...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Skiing Waitress, Vermont, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1960, printed later

$2,400
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 ...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

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 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
Villa Borghese Lion, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A young girl eating an ice cream while sitting on a sculpture of a lion in the grounds of the Villa Borghese in Rome, Italy, 1970 Slim Aarons Estate Ed...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Villa Borghese Lion, Estate Edition
Villa Borghese Lion, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Villa Borghese Lion, Estate Edition, 1970

$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 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
Zephyria I, Estate Edition. Monte Carlo French Riviera Speedboat Seascape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monte Carlo, 1970: This classic landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a vintage wooden and red painted speedboat carrying holidaygoers in the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Zephyria I, Estate Edition. Monte Carlo French Riviera Speedboat Seascape
Zephyria I, Estate Edition. Monte Carlo French Riviera Speedboat Seascape

Slim Aarons
Zephyria I, Estate Edition. Monte Carlo French Riviera Speedboat Seascape, 1970, printed later

$1,800
1920 s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera
By Tina Modotti
Located in Chicago, IL
An original 1920s silver gelatin print by famed photographer Tina Modotti depicting a mural fresco by Diego Rivera in the Secretariat of Education Buiilding, Mexico City that illustr...
Category

1920s Realist Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Paper

1920 s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera
1920 s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera

Tina Modotti
1920 s Gelatin Silver Print by Tina Modotti of a Mural Fresco by Diego Rivera, 1920 s

$2,500
Zermatt Skiing, Swiss Alps, Estate Edition, Snowy Mountain Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This midcentury landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland, March 1968. In this scene of casual winter glamo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Zermatt Skiing, Swiss Alps, Estate Edition, Snowy Mountain Landscape Photograph
Zermatt Skiing, Swiss Alps, Estate Edition, Snowy Mountain Landscape Photograph

Slim Aarons
Zermatt Skiing, Swiss Alps, Estate Edition, Snowy Mountain Landscape Photograph, 1968, printed later

$2,400
Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Santa and Serena Antonelli and a guest dining al fresco on the terrace of their home abov...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1983 - Printed Later

$3,900
Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Santa and Serena Antonelli and a guest dining al fresco on the terrace of their home abov...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Santa and Serena Antonelli, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1983 - Printed Later

$3,000
Peggy Bancroft, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mrs Thomas Bancroft Jnr (Peggy Bancroft) in the foyer of her Manhattan duplex, circa 1958. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high...
Category

1950s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Peggy Bancroft, Estate Edition
Peggy Bancroft, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Peggy Bancroft, Estate Edition, 1958

$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 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
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...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

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
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 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
Funk In Tuscany, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian fashion designer, model and socialite, Marta Marzotto (1931 - 2016), playing a James Brown album on an Italian Brionvega Radiofonograph RR126 stereo system, Porto Ercole, Tus...
Category

1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Funk In Tuscany, Estate Edition
Funk In Tuscany, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Funk In Tuscany, Estate Edition, 1969

$2,400
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...
Category

1970s Realist 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...
Category

1960s Realist 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
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for b...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970 - Printed Later

$1,800
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 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
Early Historical Colored Architectural Photograph of New Mexico Museum of Art
Located in Houston, TX
Early historical colored photograph of the New Mexico Museum of Art located in Santa Fe, NM. The work highlights the building's architecture which was create...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Early Historical Colored Architectural Photograph of New Mexico Museum of Art
Early Historical Colored Architectural Photograph of New Mexico Museum of Art

Early Historical Colored Architectural Photograph of New Mexico Museum of Art, 20th Century

$175
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...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

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

$3,600
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...
Category

1960s Realist 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
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features British rock star Mick Jagger holidays on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. This ...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1989 - Printed Later

$1,800
Sunbathing in Arizona, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman sunbathing nude by Tom Darlington's pool in Carefree, Arizona, April 1967. 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, a history of glamour that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Increasingly known for his influence, Aarons's casually glamorous jetset aesthetic can be seen today in fashion, art, and celebrity photography. Recent articles credit his work with inspiring the casually flawless style of top Instagram influencers, full of sunshine and escapism. Reference: "Dive in: how Slim Aarons art directed the poolside summer. French brand Maje are the latest label to take inspiration from Slim Aarons’ pictures of the jetset on holiday." Slim Aarons Sunbathing in Arizona...
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1960s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Sunbathing in Arizona, Estate Edition
Sunbathing in Arizona, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Sunbathing in Arizona, Estate Edition, 1967

$4,200
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...
Category

1960s Realist 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 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
Pool Party on the Steps, Palm Springs Poolside Series, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s lifestyle photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Palm Springs, California, January 19...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Pool Party on the Steps, Palm Springs Poolside Series, Estate Edition
Pool Party on the Steps, Palm Springs Poolside Series, Estate Edition

Slim Aarons
Pool Party on the Steps, Palm Springs Poolside Series, Estate Edition, 1970 - printed later

$3,000
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for b...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970 - Printed Later

$3,000
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features British rock star Mick Jagger holidays on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. This ...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1989 - Printed Later

$3,600
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...
Category

1950s Realist 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
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 for b...
Category

1970s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Poolside Gathering, Palm Springs California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1970 - Printed Later

$2,400
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...
Category

1950s Realist 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
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features British rock star Mick Jagger holidays on the island of Mustique in the Grenadines. This ...
Category

1980s Realist Photography

Materials

Lambda

Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph

Slim Aarons
Mick Jagger on Holiday, Mustique Island, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph, 1989 - Printed Later

$3,000

Realist photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist 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 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, Pico Garcez, Kind of Cyan, and Massimo Listri. 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 photography, so small editions measuring 3.94 inches across are also available. Prices for 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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