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Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia'
Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia'

Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and jet-set lifestyle of the mid-20th century.

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1980s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness, Sardinia

Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness, Sardinia

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Penthouse Pool, 1959 C print 20 x 16 inches Estate edition of 150 Dolores Guinness, 1965: Catching the sun's last rays in Costa Smerelda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked ...

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Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'

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.

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Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'
Slim Aarons 'Paola Mussetti in Sardinia'

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.

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Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia' Midcentury Modern
Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia' Midcentury Modern

Slim Aarons 'Costa Smeralda, Sardinia' Midcentury Modern

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Sailboats on the waters of the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, Italy, in September 1978. Costa Smeralda, Sardinia 1958 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 15...

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'Dolores Guinness' Sardinia (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
'Dolores Guinness' Sardinia (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

'Dolores Guinness' Sardinia (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

About Slim Aarons: Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was the preeminent chronicler of high society, capturing the world’s elite in sun-drenched luxury from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aa...

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Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

Slim Aarons 'Dolores Guinness' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aar...

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Dolores Guinness in Sardinia (Aarons Estate Edition)
Dolores Guinness in Sardinia (Aarons Estate Edition)

Dolores Guinness in Sardinia (Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in the Costa Smerelda, Sardinia, 1965. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images) Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society pub...

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Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Yachts in Sardinia, Italy)
Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Yachts in Sardinia, Italy)

Porto Rotondo, Estate Edition (Yachts in Sardinia, Italy)

By Slim Aarons

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990.

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Slim Aarons Sardinia For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate slim aarons sardinia for your needs in our varied inventory. Adding a slim aarons sardinia to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of gray, purple, blue, brown and more. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in digital print, lambda print and laser print. A large slim aarons sardinia can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller slim aarons sardinia, measuring 20 high and 16 wide, may better suit your needs.

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The average selling price for a slim aarons sardinia we offer is $3,350, while they’re typically $2,150 on the low end and $3,950 for the highest priced.

Slim Aarons for sale on 1stDibs

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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Color photography evokes emotion that can bring a viewer into the scene. It can transport one to faraway places or back into the past.

The first color photograph, taken in 1861, was more of an exercise in science than art. Photographer Thomas Sutton and physicist James Clerk Maxwell used three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon — filtered through red, green and blue — and composited them into a single image, resulting in the first multicolor representation of an object.

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  • 1stDibs ExpertNovember 20, 2024
    Slim Aarons's real name was George Allen Aarons, and his nickname came from the fact that he was tall and slender. An American photographer, Aarons captured the 20th century’s international jet set — U.S. socialites, European royalty and Hollywood stars — at play in sun-kissed locales like Monaco, Saint-Tropez and Palm Beach. 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. Find a selection of Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.