Art by Medium: Lambda

This early-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an aerial view of a parasols shading customers at cafes and restaurants in the Piazza Umberto, on the...

This early-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features US restaurateurs Gilda Cioffi, owner of Mama Gilda in Palm Beach, Guy Avventuiero and his wife, of Gi...

Slim Aarons Kaufmann Desert House, Poolside Pairs 1970 C Print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity January 1970: The Kaufmann Desert House i...

This masterful photograph by renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner captures the timeless elegance of the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Known as the 'cathedral of...

This late-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests by the pool at Klaus Pudel's villa, the Casa Montefino, overlooking Portofino harbour, Portofin...

This late-1950s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers waterskiing in front of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. This is an estate-stamped and hand-n...

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...

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Long Way Home' - 1999 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Edit...

Lambda print in colors, on Fuji color photographic paper dry-mounted to PVC (as issued). Hand signed and numbered in black marker on the reverse. Edition of 36/50. Published by Ala...

This late-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Ricardo Bolliger sitting beside a swimming pool on the island of Capri, Italy, in September 1989. A ma...

This early-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people sunbathing on the beach at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera. This is an estate-stamped and...

An Aston Martin DB6 sports car driving past the tennis courts at Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973. Slim Aarons Estate Edition, C...

This late-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera. This is an estate-stamped an...

This late-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a general view of a jetty and a speedboat beside a residence on the coast of Brazil. This is an estat...

Slim Aarons Faraglioni Rocks, Capri, 1974, Printed Later Chromogenic Lambda print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. ...

This late-1960s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers in a motorboat off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera. This is ...

This early-1960s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the coastal town of Taormina in Sicily, Italy. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition o...

Al fresco diners beneath the parasols in Piazza Umberto I, Capri, 1958. Piazza Umberto I, Capri 1958, printed later C-Type Print Estate-stamped and hand-numbered in ink on the rect...

This mid-1960s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a general view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of the yacht 'Traveler II', off the coast of Exum...

This early-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two young women, one wearing a kaftan, stepping onto a yacht on the waterfront at Saint-Tropez, Franc...

This 1660 winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an individual skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. This is an...

This late-1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Amp...

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...

This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art de...

"Wren library, Cambridge", photograph of the Wren Library in Cambridge, UK by Reinhard Görner. Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin. Two weeks manufactu...

This mid-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the curved beachside pool at the Hotel du Palais Biarritz, Biarritz, France. This is an estate-stamped...

This late-1950s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people sunbathing at La Canzone del Mare in Capri, Italy. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered...

This late-1960s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features guests dining at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August. This is an estat...

Il Pellicano Beach, 1973 Chromogenic Lambda print A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 19...

This late-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people windsurfing on the waters off the Amalfi Coast, Italy, in September 1978. This is an estate-st...

This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Harbour Island in the Bahamas. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of 150 wit...

This late-1950s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered editio...

This late 1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Courchevel restaurant chefs Jean Jacob (left) of 'Le Bateau Ivre', Michel Rochedy (centre) of 'Le C...

This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers at a ski lodge at Gstaad, Switzerland, March 1961. This is an estate stam...

Legendary photographer Slim Aarons relaxes in a self portrait shot in Athens, near the Acropolis. Slim Aarons said, "I love a solo holiday. It tends to refresh the part of oneself that is most depleted by modern life — patience. "Let me dispel a few myths. You will be lonely. No: you won’t. My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependency on someone to distract your attention. "I’ve had solo pints of Guinness in the pubs of County Kerry and County Cork. I’ve walked across the sage- and juniper-scented maquis of Corsica on a spring day, where you can still find the world of Napoleon’s childhood. More than once I went to the Isle of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides...

This early-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features sunbathers lounging on the white-painted terrace of Il Canille, built into the rocks of Pizzolungo ov...

This mid-1980s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a busy bay in Conca dei Marini, on the Amalfi coast in Italy, August 1984. This is an est...

This early-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Italian mountain climber and explorer Count Guido Monzino (1928-1988) rowing on the waters of Lake Co...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Gordon Butler's Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray at the Bahamas Speed Week at the Oakes Course, Nassau. ...

This late-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a swimming pool in the grounds of a house in Bermuda, This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered ...

This 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Donna Domitilla Ruspoli in the gallery of the Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome, 1960. The giant frescoes...

This early 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a skier at the Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont, USA, March 1962. This is an estate stamped and han...

This early-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) on his bicycle in Palm Springs, California. Author of several novels incl...

This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Mrs. Thomas Bancroft Jnr (Peggy Bancroft) in the foyer of her Manhattan duplex. This is an estate-s...

This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features women in colourful hats at an apres ski party in Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado, in M...

This mid-1950s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Carla Vuccino, wearing a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit o...

This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people relaxing at the chalet of stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr, at the Sugarbus...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features French fashion model Bettina Graziani (Simone Micheline Bodin) (1925 - 2015) adjusting the sail of a...

Villa del Balbianello, June 1983 by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Villa del Balbianello, June 1983' is a Limited...

This 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features tourists skiing at Sugarbush, a mountain resort in Vermont, April 1960. This is an estate stamped and h...

This early 1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Elizabeth Campbell Parks and Leslie, her daughter with the photographer and filmmaker Gor...

This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features visitors at the The Prado Museum (Museo Nacional del Prado) viewing Diego Velázquez's maste...

This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Irelan...

This mid-1950s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1. His passenger is Margaret McAulay. ...

This 1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace) and Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer J...

This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman sitting at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958. This is an estate...

1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...

This late 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features, from left to right; singer Marianne Faithfull, the Honorable Desmond Guinness and Mick Jagger (of ...

A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most rever...

A stand-up fondue picnic for skiers at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado which has more than fifty miles of trails and snowfields. The village was opened in 1967. Estate stamped and hand...