Slim Aarons Figurative 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
Slim Aarons
Saint-Tropez Boucherie
Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint-Tropez Boucherie'
A boucherie or butcher's shop on Rue des Commercants in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
Gorgeous print measuring an extra large 40 x 30"...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Society
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jim Kimberly and his wife (far left) and friends with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Worth. A Palm Beach socialite, Kimberly acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan. April 1968. (Slim Aarons / Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Society...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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The Marlboroughs Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Marlboroughs
1957: John Albert Edward Spencer Churchill, the 10th Duke of Marlborough (1897 – 1972) and his wife Mary relax on a bench in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, the fam...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
- Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Ladies Of Lyford Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Grace, Mrs Dauphinot, Marina Posson and Baroness Meriel de Posson in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
16 x 20 inches
$2150
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative 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 Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Monocled Miss
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aarons
Monocled...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Poolside Poodle Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Josep...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
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 Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Poolside Pairs
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Pairs
1970 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
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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 Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Hotel Taormina Pool, Sicily
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seaside swimming pool at the Hotel Taormina, Sicily, August 1975.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Social Call
1972 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Social Call' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Paper size 40 x ...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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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 Figurative Photography
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Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Snorkelling
1954 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Snorkelling' 1954 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
1954: Two young women going snorkeling. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print
Printed Lat...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Slim Aarons Style
Debutante Ball
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Debutante Ball
1958 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
A debutante ball held at the Copley Pl...
Category
1940s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Harriet De Rosiere in Cannes
1958
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
CAPTION: Viscountess Harriet de Rosiere ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Aerial Miami Beach
1972 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Aerial Miami Beach' 1972 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
A helicopter carrying tourists hovers over the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, Florida, April 1972.
Paper siz...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes
Mid-century 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.
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc
1976
C-Print
Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Treasure Cay
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Treasure Cay resort on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, March 1986.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Complimentary dealer sh...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Mazatlan Mansion
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eldorado, the Redo family villa in Mazatlan, Mexico, January 1984.
40 x 60 inches
$3950
30 x 40 inches
$3350
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, wo...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons,
C.Z. Guest With Her Great Dane
Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American socialite C.Z. Guest (Mrs Winston F.C. Guest) (1920 - 2003) with a large Great Dane dog, at her Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach, Flo...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons
Sally And Summy
Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sally And Summy' 1958 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Debutante Sally Lawrence with her horse 'Summy' at her ranch in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 1958.
30x30" inches / 76 x 76 cm p...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier View - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds at Verbier, 1964.
40 x 40" inches / 102 x 102 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection E...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Harbour Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Harbour Island in the Bahamas, 1970.
30 x 40 inches
$3350
20 x 30 inches
$3000
20 x 24 inches
$2500
10 x 12 inches
$1350
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide....
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Bermuda Beach, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman running towards the ocean on a beach in Bermuda, 1957. The bather wears a vintage coral red swimsuit, which provides a pop of color against the sun-dappled turquoise waves. F...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Castel Bonifacio
1984 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Castel Bonifacio' 1984 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
August 1984: The castle overshadows the marina at Bonifacio (Boniface), on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. (Pho...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Color
Slim Aarons
Saint Tropez Beach
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Saint Tropez Beach, 1971
Chromogenic Lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
The beach at Saint-Tropez, on the...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Sunbathing On Capri Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing On Capri
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas - on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print, Color
Skiing Waiters, 1955
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Three skiing waiters on a ski slope, with the man in the foreground carrying a bird on a tray, the second man carring a wine in an ice bucket and the third carrying a menu, Stowe, Ve...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Monocled Miss, Estate Edition (German model Renata Boeck in 1960s New York)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German fashion model Renata Boeck (wearing a monocle) enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964. She is wearing a black monocle and a fur-lined turquoise robe as she reads the morning paper, propped up against sumptuous yellow pillows. Morning light pours through the sheer curtains...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
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 Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Down To The Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of women going down the the steps to the pool at Warren Avis' villa, 'La Barranca' at Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, April 1979.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer,...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Lake Tahoe Trip (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Lake Tahoe Trip
1959
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Young women canoeing at Zephyr Cove on th...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
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
Fa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Catherine Wilke - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Catherine Wilke - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri. (Photo by Slim Aarons)
20 x 16" inches / 61 x 51 cm paper size
E...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Archival Pigment
Poolside Backgammon, Estate Edition (Vintage Acapulco, Villa Nirvana Las Brisas)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests playing a game of poolside backgammon at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
Poolside Backgammon
Villa Nirvana, Las Brisas, Acap...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Leonard Dalsemer, Lyford Cay, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Dalsemer and his family at their villa in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, April 1974.
This image features a classic Slim Aarons contrast: between the manmade and the beauty of nature. It's an expertly composed scene of midcentury glamour that still feels casual and light. The azure blue of the sky contrasts with the deeper blues and aquas of the sea, and the sparkling turquoise of the pool. While human figures anchor the scene, the expertly captured contrast of natural grandeur and architectural geometry make this scene truly magnificent.
Image Description: In the background, leafy green palm trees and other trees blow in the breeze before a bright azure sky and slightly deeper blue ocean surf. In the foreground, two couples walk the pool deck in pastel pink and green clothing. Three children play in the turquoise pool. A verdant green hedge lines the front of the image, anchored by seven white florals in white pots. In the background is a pool cabana...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
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
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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 Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Slim Aarons
Beauty and the Beast
19...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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C Print
Antigua Beach Club, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The beach club at at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies, 1960.
Slim Aarons
Antigua Beach Club, 1960
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
30 x 20 Inches
$3,000
40 x 30 Inches
$3,350
60 x 40 inches
$3,950
72 x 48 inches
$4,500
Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photograph, printed by the Slim Aarons estate. It is part of the estate's only official limited run, of 150. Estate stamp embossed on recto, hand numbered in ink on recto, with certificate of authenticity from the estate (not a secondary gallery licensing from the estate).
Increasingly heralded for his influence, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) made a career out of photographing "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Aarons is known for his iconic images of Hollywood glamour and luxurious people, places and lifestyles.
Undercurrent Projects offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Getty Images Gallery, London. Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source.
Aarons began his career as a combat photographer in World War II. Though he earned a Purple Heart for his service, he declared that combat had taught him that the only beach worth landing on was decorated with beautiful people enjoying themselves in the sun.
Slim Aarons is noted for his documentation of the Beautiful People over 50 years, encompassing high society, celebrity, aristocracy, and the jet set. He was born and raised in New York City and New Jersey and later New Hampshire. He took up photography as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and was later appointed official photographer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. During World War II he served as an army combat photographer for Yank magazine in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. After the war he became a freelance photojournalist, first based in Hollywood, then Rome, then New York. His photographs appeared in many magazines, including Life, Holiday, Town & Country, Look, Venture, and Travel & Leisure. His first book A Wonderful Time (1974) is considered a classic.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
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, Vintage...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Esther Williams, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 - 2013) lounging on a trampoline.
This ...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
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Lambda
Kings of Hollywood (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Kings of Hollywood (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1957
Film stars (left to right) Clark Gable (1901 - 1960), Van Heflin (1910 - 1971), Gary Cooper (1901 - 1961) and James Stewart (19...
Category
1950s American Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Party at Romanoff’s 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Party at Romanoff’s 1959 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A party at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, 1959
16 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection ...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1960s Realist Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Capri Hotel
1989 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Capri Hotel' 1989 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Richard Bolliger, the owner of Bolliger Transport Worldwide, holidaying on Capri, September 1989.
Paper size 30 x 40 inc...
Category
1980s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print, Color
Hello There 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Hello There 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 – 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed.
12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm paper s...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Poolside Backgammon
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Marbella Backgammon
1970
C print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
A group of people playing backgammon...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons - Yacht Holiday (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt's yacht in Marbella, 1967
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Slim Aaro...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy. August 1973.
Slim Aarons
Speedboat Landing
1973 (printed later)
Chromogenic Lambda Print (C Print)
Estate stamped and hand nu...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Saint-Tropez
1970 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Saint-Tropez' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Cars and pedestrians on the busy seafront at Saint-Tropez, in southeastern France, September 1970.
(Photo by Slim Aaron...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons
Cushing And Neri
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cushing and Neri
1973
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. ...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
- Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Christmas Swim
1954 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, ...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Lili Livi
1960 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Lili Livi'
Lili Livi poses by Lake Como, Italy, circa 1960. Lili is the daughter Madame Camilo Livi.
Paper Size 24x20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to ...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Tennis In San Diego California 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Tennis In San Diego' California 1956
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
A man and a woman playing tennis on a court surrounded by palm trees, San Diego, California, Octobe...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
CZ
s Dogs
1955 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'CZ's Dogs'
Premium Rates Apply. circa 1955: Mrs F C Winston Guest (1920 - 2003) (aka Cee Zee Guest) with her dogs in front of the Grecian temple pool on her ocean-front estate, Vil...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Curling At St. Moritz
1963 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Curling At St. Moritz' 1963 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archi...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons Poolside Pairs 1970 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Poolside Pairs' 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Joseph Lins...
Category
1970s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons
Surfing Brothers
1965 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Surfing Brothers' 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
circa 1965: Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association)...
Category
1960s Modern Slim Aarons Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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