Slim Aarons Color Photography
American, 1916-2006
American photographer Slim Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty, Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach, as well as other luxurious settings around the globe.
Committed to eschewing makeup and artificial lighting, Aarons created images that are at once candid and polished, combining the relaxed posture of his subjects, who trusted him to document their lives, with the visual sharpness of a seasoned art director. Having gotten his start taking pictures for the U.S. military magazine Yank during World War II, he contributed over the course of his career to Life, Town and Country and Holiday magazines and published several books.
Aarons was born in Manhattan in 1916. He joined the army at 18, shooting military maneuvers at West Point before serving as a combat photographer, for which he was awarded a Purple Heart. After the war, he moved to California and began snapping socialites and movie stars.
In the 1950s, Aarons opened a bureau for Life magazine in Rome, where he took pictures capturing the postwar scene. He was always able to win the trust of his elite subjects, who saw him as close to a peer, rather than a paparazzo.
In a 2002 interview with The Independent, Aarons remarked, ''I knew everyone. They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them.'' This access allowed him to document the rich and famous with their guard down, reading newspapers and magazines, talking on the phone, relaxing by the pool, and chatting with friends. The 1957 photograph The Kings of Hollywood, for example, which won him wide acclaim, shows Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing together as they celebrate New Year’s Eve.
Many of Aarons’s best-known images involve games and sports. In the 1972 Poolside Backgammon, two young women play the board game of the title against the backdrop of a majestic Acapulco estate. In 1958’s Cannes Watersports, a couple attempts to glide across the Golfe de la Napoule on Jet Skis, one expertly and one hanging on for dear life. And in Penthouse Pool, shot in Athens in 1961, a young woman wearing a yellow bathing cap smiles coyly at the camera, surrounded by friends and brightly colored seat cushions, with the Acropolis faintly visible in the background.
Among Aarons’s books are 1974’s A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life, and its 2003 sequel, Once Upon a Time. His final book, A Place in the Sun, was published in 2005, one year before his death.
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Artist: Slim Aarons
Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Olimpia Hruska 1964 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Swedish model Olimpia Hruska, wearing a bikini, poses against a rock on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, 1964
16 x 16" inches...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Skiing At Cannon Mountain
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
A skier sets off on the easy loop at Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire, 1955.
Gorgeous print measuring a huge Oversize 60 x 40" inches / ca 152 x 101 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamp...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Tennis In San Diego
California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956.
The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
24 x 20" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size
Estate...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Palm Beach Pagoda, Florida, Estate Edition Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Cynthia Eichler (sitting) with Vicky Schaft Bruder (centre) and Cathy Tankoos (Mrs Joseph T...
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1980s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Tennis In San Diego
California (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego'
A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, October 1956.
The elegant pair dressed in tennis whites, save for the striped shirt of the young lady, enjoy a game of tennis, in the heat of the Californian sunshine...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Snowmass Picnic, Colorado, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
This late 1960s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a stand-up fondue...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons Estate Edition - Pellicano Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Holidaymakers on the Tuscan coast at the Hotel Il Pellicano, Porto Ercole, August 1969
Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 20" inches / ca 76.2 x 50.8 cm’s paper size.
Estate Stamped C...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lake Tahoe Trip 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, 1959.
40 x 40" inches / 101 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Curling At St. Moritz 1963 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size
Estate...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Marina Piccola 1954 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Canzone del Mare at the Marina Piccola, Capri, Italy, 1954.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection E...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Deck Dwellers 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of the yacht ‘Traveler II’, off the coast of Exuma in the Bahamas, April 1967.
3...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Snowmass Picnic - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A stand-up fondue picnic for fashionable skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields....
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Linsk, at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California, Janu...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Lake Tahoe Trip, Estate Edition Photograph, Red, Green, White Canoes Zephyr Cove
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. Three young woman are pictured in their red, turquoise and white canoes in the sunshine. Zephyr Cove.
Lake Tahoe Canoes / Lake Tahoe Trip
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed Later
Framing options available
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* 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). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, straddling the border of California and Nevada. It’s known for its beaches and ski resorts. On the southwest shore, Emerald Bay State Park contains the 1929 Nordic-style mansion Vikingsholm. Along the lake’s northeast side, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park includes Sand Harbor Beach and Spooner Lake, a gateway to the long-distance Tahoe Rim Trail.
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Pebble Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders from the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center wend their way through the Californian sand dunes and pampas grass, November 1976.
Slim Aarons
Pebble Beach, Slim Aarons Estate Editio...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Capri Tan
Estate Edition, 1968, Italy: vintage 60s beach fashion
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1968, A kneeling sunbather shows off her rings and pendant on a beach in Capri, Italy.
From a recent Vogue article on the photography of Slim Aarons: "The iconic Capri is always teeming with a variety of hotels, each more beautiful than the last. A stone's throw from the Villa Malaparte from Jean-Luc Godard's movie Contempt, the Faraglioni cliffs plunging into the turquoise of the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the colorful houses that climb the bay. The Hotel Punta Tragara was one of Slim Aarons' favorite spots in Italy."
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Slim Aarons, View From Il Pellicano (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
View From Il Pellicano, 1991
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted w...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Jim Kimberly, California, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Jim Kimberly and Kim Wadsworth at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California.
This is an estate ...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Getty Christmas, 1979 - Midcentury Modern Slim Aarons
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
1979, Ann and Gordon Getty and two of their four sons, Andrew and Billy, at home for Christmas, San Francisco.
Slim Aarons
Getty Christmas
1979 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamp...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
Porto Ercole Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole
1973
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A Magnum motorboat belonging to Count Filippo Theodoli arrives at the private jetty of the Il Pellicano Hotel i...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Boy Baron Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Boy Baron
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The youngest peer in England, seven year old Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron and 10th Baronet Hesketh, ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
C. Z. Guest With Her Great Dane
1955
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
American socialite C.Z. Guest (Mrs Winston F.C. Guest) (1920 – 2003) with a large Great Dane...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Leisure in Antibes
, framed
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskiier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969.
Leisure in Antibes...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Snow Round The Pool, 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 the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 w...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Princess Bianca, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg at her Gstaad chalet, 1985.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, San Diego, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, La Jolla, San Diego.
This is an estate stamp...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Skiing in Zermatt, Switzerland, 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 the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 ...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Laguna Beach Surfers, California, 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 surfer in the sea at Laguna Beach, California.
This is an estate stamped and hand num...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Hepburn And Friends Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hepburn And Friends
1953
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
1953 On the left film star Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993) talks with Mrs Grover Magnin (centre) and another...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Laguna Bowls Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Laguna Bowls
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A game of bowls in progress at Laguna Beach Lawn Bowling Club in Heisler Park, southern California, circa 1970...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Venice, Italy, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sunbatheing, wearing a novelty straw sun hat with built-in sunglasses, Venice.
Th...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Rowing Off Sicily, Estate Edition (Taormina, Italy: rocky turquoise seascape)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons' Rowing Off Sicily, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of two couples out rowing off the coast of Sicily, Italy, near Taorm...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Curling At St. Moritz (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
La Canzone Del Mare
1958 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy, July 1958.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 102 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in 2025
Limit...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Pop and Society (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Pop and Society (Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger)
Chromogenic lambda print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
1968: From lef...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Faithful Couple: Mick Jagger
Marianne Faithfull at Leixlip Castle, Estate Ed.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons's iconic and unusual photograph of 60's rock and roll legends, captured in a moment of casual glamour. 1968: Singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones) sit on a sofa under a large gilt framed portrait of a woman in 18th century silk dress at Leixlip Castle, Ireland, the home of Desmond Guinness. The sofa is a deep burgundy red, and the background features a richly patterned and gilded wallpaper...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A villa in Las Brisas, Acapulco, February 1972.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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C Print
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...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Pool at Lake Tahoe, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph Sierra Nevada Mountains
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This landscape photograph by iconic mid-century photographer Slim Aarons depicts bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mo...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Giclée
Slim Aarons
Porto Ercole Beach
1991 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole Beach'
A quiet stretch of coastline in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, July 1991.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo ...
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1990s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
French Bath
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Joyce Pallardy relaxes at the Villa Macopa, the home of Mrs Andre Hammel in St Tropez, August 1977.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Undercurrent Projects i...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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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...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Dolores Guinness
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia.
Slim Aarons
Dolores Guinness
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* 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). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Dolores Guinness (31 July 1936 – 20 January 2012), was a German born "Freiin" (Baroness), socialite, fashion icon and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1970. Her mother was the famous Mexican-born socialite Gloria Guinness.
Dolores was often seen in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country and Life magazine dressed in designer clothes from Givenchy, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga during the 1950s and 1960s, photographed by Cecil Beaton, Bert Stern, Henry Clarke, Mark Shaw (photographer), Richard Avedon and William Klein. She often appeared on the International Best Dressed List during these years.
The Costa Smeralda (lit. 'Emerald Coast...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons, Estate Edition, Self Portrait with Cigarette in Capri, 1960s
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Photographer Slim Aarons (right) on board a yacht off Capri, Italy, September 1968.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Slim Aarons
Eden-Roc Pool
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests by the pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
Eden-Roc Pool
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Marie Maud McKim, Central Park (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Marie Maud ('Memsie') McKim
1958 (printed later)
Chromogenic print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Marie Maud ('...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Verbier View
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964.
Verbier View
1963
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authentic...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Harriet At Mougins, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere at Mougins, near Cannes in France, 1957.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocra...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
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Lambda
Poolside Secrets, Estate Edition, Slim Aarons Palm Beach Collection
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flo Smith (left) and Lily Pulitzer share a secret at a pool party, Palm Beach, Florida, April 1961.
Description and alt text: In this classic image of midcentury poolside glamour, two suntanned white women share a moment by the sparkling blue and green reflective swimming pool. Flo Smith wears a breezy straw hat and sailor striped top with white shorts, and Lily Pulitzer wears a mod Grecian vase print and coral pants, and a vibrant pink kerchief. The figures in the foreground are in crisp detail, and the lush background of palm trees and cool blue sky is in soft focus. There is a beautiful contrast between the soft-focus background foliage and its graphic, bright reflection in the pool in the middle ground. Flo holds a white bag and her nails are painted red, echoing the trim of her hat. Pulitzer wears a jade bracelet, echoing the jade of the pool and her top, and her nails are natural. A blue cabana can be seen in the background. Flo holds an arm around Lily's waist, and Lily lightly tips the corner of Flo's hat.
This is a perfect image for a collector of classic photography, midcentury glamour, or iconic friendship. Color chips for complementary decorative shades of soft red, deep pink, delft blue (sky), and jade greens (pool, palms and poolside foliage) can be seen in slideshow.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Authenticity included
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate
Collector will receive the next number in the edition
Modern printing from original transparency
C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper,
Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color
Paper weight 210gms
Matte Satin Surface
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 photography, 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.
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
El Venero
Midcentury Modern Architecture
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco on a terrace overlooking the wa...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
C Print
Backgammon by the Pool, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Women playing backgammon while sunbathing at the Habitation Leclerc pool, January 1975
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
Backgammon by the pool...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Portofino, Italy, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests relaxing on the terrace at the villa of Umberto and Pucci Nordio, Portofino
This i...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, 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 couple walking on Caleta Beach holding hands, Acapulco, Mexico, 1968.
This is an esta...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Cannes Watersports at the Carlton
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
Cannes Watersports at the Carlton
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Nice Pool 1955 Slim Aarons Premium Collection Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Nice Pool 1955
American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 – 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Dolores Guinness
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia.
Slim Aarons
Dolores Guinness
Costa Smeralda, Sardinia
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* 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). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
Dolores Guinness (31 July 1936 – 20 January 2012), was a German born "Freiin" (Baroness), socialite, fashion icon and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1970. Her mother was the famous Mexican-born socialite Gloria Guinness.
Dolores was often seen in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country and Life magazine dressed in designer clothes from Givenchy, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga during the 1950s and 1960s, photographed by Cecil Beaton, Bert Stern, Henry Clarke, Mark Shaw (photographer), Richard Avedon and William Klein. She often appeared on the International Best Dressed List during these years.
The Costa Smeralda (lit. 'Emerald Coast...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
(Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, on a lilo in a swimming pool decorated for Christmas, Hollywood, 1954. The Hollywood sign can be seen in the distance.
Estate stamped...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Portofino Villa, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Portofino, Italy, August 1977.
Portofino Villa
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Chromogenic L...
Category
1970s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
Lech Ice Bar, Austria, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960 photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The Hotel Pfefferkorn and Hotel Tannbergerhof are ...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Color Photography
Materials
Lambda
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