Slim Aarons 'Grek Monastery' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons Greek Monatery, 1983, Printed Later Lambda C-print Estate Edition of 150 Cecily Godfrey relaxes by the pool at her home in Hong Kong, 1979.
Lambda
'Greek Monastery' 1983 Slim Aarons Limited 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.
Color, Archival Pigment
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri (1961) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Greece, December 1961. Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a ...
Color, Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Jean Serpieri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A nearby station of the Proastiakos suburban railway opened in 2014, Pyrgos Vasilissis, is named after the estate. Internal: Slim Aarons, Vintage Greece photography, Vintage Athens ...
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Madame Jean Serpieri' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Photographs are printed utilizing the original transparency held at the archive source. Internal: Slim Aarons, Vintage Greece photography, Vintage Athens photography, Vintage Tour L...
Lambda
$4,200
Slim Aarons 'Vourekas-Petalas Family' 1978 Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Vourekas-Petalas Family' 1978 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Greek architect Andreas Vourekas-Petalas beside the Parthenon on the Acropolis, with his wife Alexandra and t...
C Print, Color
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece.
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece.
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece.
Lambda
$5,700
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece.
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece.
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece.
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, Poolside Landscape with Acropolis, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Slim Aarons’s Penthouse Pool captures a sunlit moment of casual glamour at the Canellopoulos penthouse pool in Athens, Greece.
Lambda
Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photo depicts a scene of vintage glamour set against a classic Greek blue sky. Slim Aarons Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Estate Edition of 1...
Lambda
Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photo depicts a scene of vintage glamour set against a classic Greek blue sky. Slim Aarons Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Estate Edition of 1...
Lambda
Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photo depicts a scene of vintage glamour set against a classic Greek blue sky. Slim Aarons Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Estate Edition of 1...
Lambda
Dimitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic photo depicts a scene of vintage glamour set against a classic Greek blue sky. Slim Aarons Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Estate Edition of 1...
Lambda
Alison Cain - Society Portrait Models in Purple Silk Dress by Greek Columns
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Alison Cain - Society Portrait Models in Purple Silk Dress by Greek Columns by Slim Aarons 16" x 12" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
C Print, Color, Photographic Paper, Digital
Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, 1967 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 3...
Lambda
Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, 1967 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 3...
Lambda
Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, 1967 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 3...
Lambda
$5,400
Jean Serpieri at Tour La Reine (Queen's Tower), Athens, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A nearby station of the Proastiakos suburban railway opened in 2014, Pyrgos Vasilissis, is named after the estate. Internal: Slim Aarons, Vintage Greece photography, Vintage Athens ...
Lambda
$3,000
Jean Serpieri at Tour La Reine (Queen's Tower), Athens, Greece, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A nearby station of the Proastiakos suburban railway opened in 2014, Pyrgos Vasilissis, is named after the estate. Internal: Slim Aarons, Vintage Greece photography, Vintage Athens ...
Lambda
Vourekas-Petalas Family, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Greek architect Andreas Vourekas-Petalas beside the Parthenon on the Acropolis, with his wife Alexa...
Lambda
Vourekas-Petalas Family, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Greek architect Andreas Vourekas-Petalas beside the Parthenon on the Acropolis, with his wife Alexa...
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Estate Edition, framed
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Internal: Athens, Greece, Slim Aarons Poolside Photography, Vintage Summer, Vintage Slim Aarons Poolside, Poolside Glamour, Vintage Greek...
Lambda
Madame Jean Serpieri
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Vintage Greece, Tour La Reine, Vintage Athens #282128 #605959 #BCAFA5 #51332D #33475B #8C705B #664738 #42...
Lambda
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 t...
Lambda
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 t...
Lambda
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 t...
Lambda
Laura Hawk amid the ancient Greek ruins of Paestum, on the Gulf of Salerno
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1980s photograph, taken by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Laura Hawk, assistant of the photographer, posing while reading a guide to Paestum on the base of a bro...
Lambda
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H 40 in W 40 in
Slim Aarons, Penthouse Pool. Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, Greece, 1961
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens, July 1961. This photograph is from the Estate Limited Edition of 150 40x40” C-print, from the original transparency Printed ...
C Print
Sold
H 20 in W 24 in
'Onassis In Office' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Onassis In Office' 1956 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 - 1975) in the office aboard his yacht 'Christina', August 1956.
C Print, Color
Sold
H 40 in W 40 in
Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Poseidon, Sounion, Greece Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion, 1967. Slim Aarons Dmitris Kritsas at the Temple to Pose...
Lambda
Sold
H 30 in W 30 in
Self Portrait on Holiday in Athens, Greece (Limited Edition Estate Stamped)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
Lambda
Sold
H 40 in W 60 in
Laura Hawk amid the ancient Greek ruins of Paestum, on the Gulf of Salerno
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Lambda
Penthouse Pool, Athens Greece
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Penthouse Pool Slim Aarons Reproduction Print Athens, Greece Circa 1961 This work is mounted between dibond and plexi glass.
C Print, Plexiglass
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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