Dolores Del Rio (1952) - Limited Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dolores Del Rio (1952) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Mexican film star Dolores Del Rio (1905 – 1983) swimming in Acapulco, Mexico, 1952.
Color, Archival Pigment
Pool at Las Brisas, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons Pool at Las Brisas Acapulco An underwater view of the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
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Princess Hotel, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the swimming pool at the Princess Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Princess Hotel, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the swimming pool at the Princess Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Princess Hotel, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the swimming pool at the Princess Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Coconut Cocktail, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1950s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Teddy Stauffer and a friend sharing a drink from a coconut shell, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Coconut Cocktail, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1950s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Teddy Stauffer and a friend sharing a drink from a coconut shell, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Linda Christian (1958) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Linda Christian (1958) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Mexican actress Linda Christian poses at the Canzone del Mare on the Picola Marina on the island of Capri,...
Color, Archival Pigment
Princess Hotel, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the swimming pool at the Princess Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Princess Hotel, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the swimming pool at the Princess Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Princess Hotel, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the swimming pool at the Princess Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico.
C Print
Princess Hotel, Mexico, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the swimming pool at the Princess Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico.
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons Poolside Backgammon 1972 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of...
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
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Slim Aarons 'Social Call, Las Brisas' *
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive ...
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Slim Aarons ''Social Call, Las Brisas'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons, an acclaimed fine art photographer, is synonymous with images that capture the luxury, glamour, and ...
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Slim Aarons, Pool At Las Hadas
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Pool At Las Hadas, 1974 C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 197...
C Print
Acapulco Villa (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spent his honeymoon. Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society ...
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Acapulco Villa (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spent his honeymoon. Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society ...
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Acapulco Villa (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spent his honeymoon. Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society ...
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$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Poolside Backgammon' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons Poolside Backgammon 1972 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped an...
C Print
$5,400
Slim Aarons, 'Caleta Beach, Acapulco' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
A couple walk on Caleta Beach holding hands, Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. Slim Aarons Caleta Beach, Acapulco 1968 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edit...
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Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spent his honeymoon. Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society ...
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Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spent his honeymoon. Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society ...
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$3,900
Slim Aarons, 'Pool At Las Hadas' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests round the pool at Las Hadas, Manzanillo, Mexico, 1974. Slim Aarons Pool At Las Hadas 1974 C print (Printed later) Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 wi...
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Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool' Mid-century Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Fashionable Alvarez wearing a white bikini and 'Brandy' sporting a sun hat are seated in the swimming pool playing backgammon in the heat of the Mexican sun. Slim Aarons, an acclai...
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Social Call, Las Brisas, Acapulco (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive ...
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Social Call, Las Brisas, Acapulco (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive ...
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Social Call, Las Brisas, Acapulco (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractiv...
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$2,750
'Guinness By The Pool' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Guinness By The Pool' 1975 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Mexican socialite and journalist Gloria Guinness (1912 - 1980) at her hilltop house overlooking the Bay of Acap...
C Print, Color
Casa Las Estacas, 1979 - Limited Edition Slim Aarons Estate Stamped C-Type
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
"Casa Las Estacas" is a beautiful Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print by 20th Century photographer Slim Aarons. Casa Las Estacas by Slim Aarons depicts the home of ...
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
$3,000
Hibiscus Flowers, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman surrounded by red hibiscus flowers in a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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$2,400
Hibiscus Flowers, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman surrounded by red hibiscus flowers in a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Armando's Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, 1975
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archive in London. All photographs are printed and authorized by the Get...
C Print
$2,400
Nirvana, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the pool at Villa Nirvana, Acapulco, Mexico.
C Print
$3,600
Nirvana, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the pool at Villa Nirvana, Acapulco, Mexico.
C Print
$3,000
Nirvana, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1970s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the pool at Villa Nirvana, Acapulco, Mexico.
C Print
$3,600
Hibiscus Flowers, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman surrounded by red hibiscus flowers in a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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$1,800
Hibiscus Flowers, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman surrounded by red hibiscus flowers in a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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$4,200
Hibiscus Flowers, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman surrounded by red hibiscus flowers in a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Francine Brandt, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Francine Brandt, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Francine Brandt, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Francine Brandt, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Francine Brandt, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Francine Brandt, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Alice In Acapulco, Mexico, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Alice Topping and Minnie Cushing (left) relaxing with friends in Acapulco, Mexico.
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Fishing Boats, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a landscape with fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico.
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Fishing Boats, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a landscape with fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico.
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Fishing Boats, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a landscape with fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico.
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Fishing Boats, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a landscape with fishing nets and boats on the shore in Mexico.
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Slim Aarons, Villa Nirvana in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico 1972. Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) This photograph is from the E...
C Print
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H 30 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons, La Concha Beach Club. Bathers at la Concha in Acapulco Mexico 1975.
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico, February 1975 This photograph is from the Estate Limited Edition of 150 30x40” C-print, from the original transparency Printed lat...
C Print
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
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Slim Aarons 'Poolside Backgammon'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive...
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Acapulco Pool, Villa Nirvana (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Las Brisas Residencias, home of Eustaquio Escandon in Acapulco, where Henry Kissinger spent his honeymoon. Acapulco, Mexico, 1968. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society ...
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Social Call, Las Brisas, Acapulco (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico, 1972. Slim Aarons (1916-2006) worked mainly for society publications photographing "attractive people doing attractive...
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Social Call, Mexico, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early-1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico.
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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.
Find a collection of vintage Slim Aarons photography on 1stDibs.
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.
Before this innovation, photographs were often tinted by hand. By the 1890s, color photography processes were introduced based on that 1860s experiment. In the early 20th century, autochromes brought color photography to a commercial audience.
Now color photography is widely available, with these historic photographs documenting moments and scenes that are still vivid generations later. Photographers in the 20th and 21st centuries have offered new perspectives in the evolving field of modern color photography with gripping portraiture, snow-capped landscapes, stunning architecture and lots more.
In the voluminous collection of photography on 1stDibs, find vibrant full-color images by Slim Aarons, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks, Stefanie Schneider, Steve McCurry and other artists. Bring visual interest to any corner of your home with color photography — introduce a salon-style gallery hang or another arrangement that best fits your space.