Slim Aarons Portrait 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, View from Il Pellicano (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aerial view with sunbathers and parasols and, dotted with yachts and small boats, the waters off the coast of Porto Ercole, Tuscany, in July 1991. The ...
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1990s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons
George Hamilton with Horse on Capri
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
April 1966: Actor George Hamilton with a horse on the island of Capri
Slim Aarons
George Hamilton with Horse on Capri
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Estate st...
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Capote Cycling, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Capote Cycling
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
1970: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) on his bicycle in Palm Springs, California. Author of several novels including 'Breakfast at ...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Family Chair (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Matthews, descendant of H M Flagler co-founder of Palm Beach, sits in her great-grandfather’s favourite chair in front of the family mansion now the Flagler Museum, Palm Be...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Clifftop Pool, Barranca, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests around the clifftop pool at Warren Avis' villa 'La Barranca', Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, January 1971.
Slim Aarons
'Clifftop Pool'
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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 *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Acapulco, Vintage Poolside...
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Slim Aarons, C Z
Friends in a Model T, Palm Beach (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite, C. Z. Guest, ( aka Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with her personalized Ford Model T t...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons
Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at their home, the Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes, France, 1956.
Slim Aarons
...
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Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958, Printed Later.
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
Lambda Print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Framing options available
60 x 60 inches
$5100
48 x 48 inches
$4500
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$3000
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 *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons
Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Comte de Paris, pretender to the French throne, with his wife the Comtesse and their children at their home, the Manoir du Coeur Volant, Louveciennes, France, 1956, Printed Later...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seafront in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, September 1970.
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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 *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez, Vintage Ships, French Riviera, Beach Photography, Vintage Riviera, Vintage Docks...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Snorkelling (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1954: Two young women going snorkelling.
Slim Aarons
Snorkelling
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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 *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Snorkelling, Vintage sport, Beach Photography, Vintage Ocean photography, Vintage snorkelling...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
Lambda Print
6 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate 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
$3000
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 *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
Category
1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, Poolside (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams by the pool in Florida, 1955.
Slim Aarons
Esther Williams
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Printed later.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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.
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 *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Esther Williams, midcentury modern, Vintage Esther Williams, Vintage Poolside Series, Vintage Movie Stars, Vintage Swimmers...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, "Flintstone Home, " Arizona (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Hovgard's home, Bouldereign in Carefree, Arizona, built around the boulders on a desert site, January 1973.
Slim Aarons
Flintstone Home, Arizona
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The seafront in Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, September 1970.
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez Seafront
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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 *
Internal: Slim Aarons, Saint-Tropez, Vintage Ships, French Riviera, Beach Photography, Vintage Riviera, Vintage Docks...
Category
1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958.
Slim Aarons
Carlton Hotel
Giclee print
Slim Aarons Estate 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
$3000
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 *
Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956.
In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart".
The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Il Pellicano Pool, Estate Edition, Seascape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969
Slim Aarons
Il Pellicano Pool, 1969
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, "Poolside in Arizona" (Architecture, Desert, Pool, 1970
s)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Poolside In Arizona' by Slim Aarons
Fabulously fashionable guests by the calm water of the swimming pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973.
Slim Aaron...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Debutantes (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young debutantes in Palm Beach, Florida, 1968.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Debutantes
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, wo...
Category
1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Anchorage Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A view of the Anchorage Hotel on Dickenson Bay, Antigua in the West Indies, 1960. Built by a Scottish couple, formerly resident in Africa, the hotel complex features Zulu-style cotta...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, "Poolside in Arizona" (Architecture, Desert, Pool, 1970
s)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Poolside In Arizona' by Slim Aarons
Fabulously fashionable guests by the calm water of the swimming pool at the home of Wayne Beal in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1973. This classi...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Hotel Krone, Lech (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Traffic passing by the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960
Slim Aarons
Hotel Krone, Lech
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your fr...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Il Pellicano Pool, 1969 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests walking up steps at the Hotel Il Pellicano at Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1969
Slim Aarons
Il Pellicano Pool, 1969
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estate Edition...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Palm Beach Debutantes (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Young debutantes in Palm Beach, Florida, 1968.
Slim Aarons
Palm Beach Debutantes
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, wo...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Hello There, 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1955: Film star Diana Dors (Diana Fluck) (1931 - 1984) in blonde bombshell pose on a satin covered bed
Slim Aarons
Hello There, 1955
Lambda Print
4 sizes available
Slim Aarons Estat...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Polo Party, 1981 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach, April 1981. Left to right: Adam Butler, Reutie Bu...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
This ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Madame Jean Serpieri (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of m...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Slim Aarons, Marie-Louise Scio, Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Marie-Louise Scio (Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy, 1980)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Marie-Louise Scio poses in a leotard at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, November 1980
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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, Acapulco, Red and White Stripes, Mexico, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography, Vintage Resort...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Francine Brandt (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961.
Slim Aarons
Francine Brandt
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping t...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slopes
Trails, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s winter photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, 1955.
This is an e...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Marie-Louise Scio, Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons, Marie-Louise Scio (Tettuccio Terme, Montecatini, Italy, 1980)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Marie-Louise Scio poses in a leotard at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy, November 1980
48 x 48 inches
$4500
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
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, Acapulco, Red and White Stripes, Mexico, Vintage Glamour, Midcentury Photography, Vintage Resort...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Monocled Miss (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
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.
S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
This ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Barbados Bliss (Ava Marshall, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Barbados Bliss / Ava Marshall, 1976
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwi...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Barbados Bliss (Ava Marshall, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Barbados Bliss / Ava Marshall, 1976
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwi...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Barbados Bliss (Ava Marshall, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Barbados Bliss / Ava Marshall, 1976
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwi...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Barbados Bliss (Ava Marshall, Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Barbados Bliss / Ava Marshall, 1976
Chromogenic Lambda print
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwi...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Marietine Birnie, Blue Lagoon, Malta, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Marietine Birnie snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
This ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Leisure and Fashion, Colony Hotel, Palm Beach
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman watching a poolside fashion show at the Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, 1961.
Slim Aarons
Leisure and Fashion
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Slim Aa...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Capote At Home, New York, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the author Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) relaxing with a book and a cigarette in his clutter...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Nice Pool, Palm Beach, Estate Edition Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Dougl...
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1950s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Lambda
Apres Ski, Squaw Valley, Estate Edition, Snowscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A party of skiers adjourn for drinks at Squaw Valley, CA 1961, one year after the 1960 Winter Olympics.
Olympic Valley, California is an unincorporated community located in Placer C...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
David Nightingale Hicks
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
April 1970—Interior designer David Nightingale Hicks (1929 - 1998) on Windermere Island in the Bahamas.
David Nightingale Hicks
Slim Aarons Es...
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1980s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Minnie Cushing Surfing, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
American society girl Minnie Cushing surfing in the summer of 1965. Her father Howard reportedly introduced surfing at Spouting Rock in the 1930s after bringing a board back from Haw...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
David Nightingale Hicks (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
April 1970—Interior designer David Nightingale Hicks (1929 - 1998) on Windermere Island in the Bahamas.
David Nightingale Hicks
Slim Aarons Es...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
David Nightingale Hicks (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
April 1970—Interior designer David Nightingale Hicks (1929 - 1998) on Windermere Island in the Bahamas.
David Nightingale Hicks
Slim Aarons Es...
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1970s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Verbier Skier (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Verbier Skier, 1964
Chromogenic Lambda Print
Estate edition of 150
A blonde skier on the slopes at Verbier, February 1964.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with cert...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Capote Cycling, Palm Springs, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons
Capote Cycling
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
1970: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) on his bicycle in Palm Springs, California. Author of several novels including 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' which was made into a film.
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Chromogenic Lambda print from the original transparency
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 *
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.
Internal: Vintage Literary photography, vintage writers, vintage glamour, vintage breakfast...
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1970s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Paola Mussetti in Sardinia
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Paola Mussetti, 1982
Fiber print
Paola Mussetti, a science student from Turin, poses in a bikini in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, in August 1982. (Photo by Slim Aarons...
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1980s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Silver Gelatin
Verbier View
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Verbier View (1964) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Skiers admire the view across a valley of clouds.
Verbier, 1964.
Additional Information:
Unframed
Paper Size:...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Color, C Print
Iconic Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Tania Mallet in the Bahamas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1961: Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is best known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film 'Go...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Mara Lane at the Sands
(Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Austrian actress Mara Lane lounging by the pool in a red and white striped bathing costume at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1954.
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 ...
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1950s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons, Skiing at Sugarbush
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Skiing at Sugarbush, 1960.
C print
estate edition of 150
Skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150...
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1960s Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Actor George Hamilton and model Alana Collins in Capri, Grand Hotel Quisisana.
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Actor George Hamilton and model Alana Collins in the fashion parade on Capri during a fashion festival at the Grand Hotel Quisisana.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 ...
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1960s American Realist Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Lambda
Slim Aarons
Man Ray in Paris
Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Man Ray in his Paris studio with poster for Non-Abstractions exhibition opening (1956) and Peinture féminine (1954)
Slim Aarons
Man Ray in Paris
1956 printed later
C-Print
Estate si...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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C Print
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Checkered Flag - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Checkered Flag
The checkered flag signals the end of the race during the 1963 Nassau Speed Week.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate S...
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1960s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Archival Pigment
Grand Day Out
Slim Aarons (1955) Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Grand Day Out (1955) Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Art collector Chester Dale (1883 – 1962) with Charles Prescott Berdell and their wives in Palm Bea...
Category
1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, C Print
New England Skiing
Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
New England Skiing (1955) - Limited Estate Stamped - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
A skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire, 1955...
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1950s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
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Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Barbados Bliss (1976) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Barbados Bliss (1976) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea
Barbados, 1976.
Addi...
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1970s Modern Slim Aarons Portrait Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons portrait photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Slim Aarons portrait photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of portrait photography to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, purple, pink and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Slim Aarons in digital print, lambda print, laser print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Slim Aarons portrait photography, so small editions measuring 10 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Mark Shaw, Bob Willoughby, and Mark Beard. Slim Aarons portrait photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $960 and tops out at $35,000, while the average work can sell for $3,000.