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El Venero, Retro Color Slide Print by Slim Aarons

El Venero, Retro Color Slide Print by Slim Aarons

By Slim Aarons

Located in Austin, TX

"EL VENERO" - RETRO COLOR SLIDE PRINT BY SLIM AARONS El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.

Category

Late 20th Century Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

El Venero

Slim AaronsEl Venero, 1971

Price Upon Request

El Venero

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

The Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain Staley-Wise Gallery offers photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive, owned and housed by Getty Images Archi...

Category

1970s Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Pool By El Venerol Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

Pool By El Venerol Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Pool By El Venerol 1967 by Slim Aarons Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Guests by the pool at ‘El Venerol’, the villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala, Marbella, Spain, August 1967.

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons, El Venero

Slim Aarons, El Venero

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

El Venero, Marbella, Spain

El Venero, Marbella, Spain

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.

Category

1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

El Venero Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

El Venero Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero 1967 by Slim Aarons printed 2023 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967 unframed c type ...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Venero - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print, 16" x 20" Color Print
El Venero - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print, 16" x 20" Color Print

El Venero - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print, 16" x 20" Color Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Guests enjoy cocktails at sunset by the pool of the villa El Venero. Owned by Hector and Chico de Ayala, El Venero was a villa in the coastal city of Marbella, in southern Spain, in ...

Category

20th Century Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print, Digital, Photographic Paper, Color

'Pool At El Venero' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print

'Pool At El Venero' Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

'Pool At El Venerol' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print Guests by the pool at 'El Venerol', the villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala, Marbella, Spain, August 1967.

Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Paper, Color, Digital

Slim Aarons 'El Venero'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero, 1967 El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain. 40x30” / 76x101 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by ...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition
El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

El Venero 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain. 20x30” / 51 x 76 cm - paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aarons Pr...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

'El Venero' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition

'El Venero' 1967 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

'El Venero' El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967. 30x40 inches / 76 x 102 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 ...

Category

1960s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

El Venero Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
El Venero Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

El Venero Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

El Venero Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
El Venero Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

El Venero Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.

Category

1970s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

El Venero '  Slim Aarons Estate Edition

El Venero ' Slim Aarons Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967 This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beaut...

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Venero '  Slim Aarons Estate Edition

El Venero ' Slim Aarons Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967 This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beaut...

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Venero - Slim Aarons Estate Edition

El Venero - Slim Aarons Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

El Venero - Slim Aarons Estate Edition

El Venero - Slim Aarons Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

El Venero El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.

Category

1960s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Recent Sales

Pool at El Venero

Slim AaronsPool at El Venero, 1967

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H 40 in W 60 in

Pool at El Venero

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

Guests by the pool at El Venero, the villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala, Marbella.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Vendedora de Alcatraces - Young Mexican Girl Selling Calla Lillies
Vendedora de Alcatraces - Young Mexican Girl Selling Calla Lillies

Vendedora de Alcatraces - Young Mexican Girl Selling Calla Lillies

Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA

A lovely painting of a young Mexican girl selling flowers. PROVENANCE: Galeria de Arte Misrachi, Mexico City (gallery label on verso) Private Collection, San Diego, CA. This item is...

Category

1950s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'
Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

Slim Aarons 'El Venero, Marbella, Spain'

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1971.

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons El Venero -  Marbella 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Slim Aarons El Venero -  Marbella 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Edition

Slim Aarons El Venero - Marbella 1967 Slim Aarons Estate Edition

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

'El Venero' Marbella (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) El Venero, the Moorish villa of Hector and Chico de Ayala in Marbella, Spain, 1967.

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

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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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Find a broad range of photography on 1stDibs today.

The first permanent image created by a camera — which materialized during the 1820s — is attributed to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. The French inventor was on to something for sure. Kodak introduced roll film in the 1880s, allowing photography to become more democratic, although cameras wouldn’t be universally accessible until several decades later. 

Digital photographic techniques, software, smartphone cameras and social-networking platforms such as Instagram have made it even easier in the modern era for budding photographers to capture the world around them as well as disseminate their images far and wide. 

What might leading figures of visual art such as Andy Warhol have done with these tools at their disposal?

Today, when we aren’t looking at the digital photos that inundate us on our phones, we look to the past to celebrate the photographers who have broken rules as well as records — provocative and prolific artists like Horst P. Horst, Lillian Bassman and Helmut Newton, who altered the face of fashion and portrait photography; visionary documentary photographers such as Gordon Parks, whose best-known work was guided by social justice; and pioneers of street photography such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, who shot for revolutionary travel magazines like Holiday with the likes of globetrotting society lensman Slim Aarons.

Find photographers you may not know in Introspective and The Study — where you’ll read about Berenice Abbott, who positioned herself atop skyscrapers for the perfect shot, or “conceptual artist-adventurer” Charles Lindsay, whose work combines scientific rigor with artistic expression, or Massimo Listri, known for his epic interiors of opulent Old World libraries. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron was given a Kodak camera as a child. Later, she shot on Polaroid film before buying her first 35mm camera in her teens. Barron's stunning portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Warhol and other artists chronicle a crucial chapter of New York’s cultural history.

Throughout the past two centuries, photographers have used their medium to create expressive work that has resonated for generations. Shop a voluminous collection of this powerful fine photography on 1stDibs. Search by photographer to find the perfect piece for your living room wall, or spend some time with the work organized under various categories, such as landscape photography, nude photography and more. 

Questions About Slim Aarons

  • 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.