Aaron’s Spectacular Photos Offer a Glimpse into Private Life of Celebrities and Elites

Slim Aarons was a talented photographer. He took pictures of attractive people in a stunning environment. As a photographer of celebrities, royals, and the ultra-rich since the 1950s, he became famous as his style became increasingly associated with the elite. Aarons’ death revealed that he had never been an orphan from New Hampshire, as he had claimed, but grew up in an impoverished Jewish immigrant family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

He worked for Life magazine and other society papers, as well as a host of other publications. Aarons influenced whole generations of photographers with his work. These stunning images offer a glimpse into the private lives of the rich and famous before they became oversaturated on social media, one that still reflects a sense of abundance and ease we all deserve this summer.

#1 Photographer Slim Aarons slouches in a chair with the Acropolis and its surroundings as a backdrop, 1955.

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#2 Lillian Hanson relaxes by the swimming pool at the Bürgenstock Estate, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, 1955.

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#3 American writer C.Z. Guest and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach.

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#4 Lahaina Kameha wearing a hat, in Haiti, February 1981

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#5 Surfers outside a beach hut at Laguna Beach, California, January 1970

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#6 A family enjoying a picnic on the bank of the Whiting River near Campbell Falls, Massachusetts, 1959

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#7 A woman wearing a swimsuit poses against a rock in the sea at Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, 1964

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#8 A woman prepares to go snorkeling in Lyford Cay, Bahamas, March 1962.

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#9 Herb Field, owner of the Sea Horse Beach Resort, with his family on the Gulf Coast, Miami, Florida, April 1972.

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#10 Former actor Princess Patricia Anne zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst with friends in Marbella, Spain, circa 1967

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#11 Five women in costumes partying at Emi Fors, Acapulco, Mexico, 1966

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#12 American singer Dinah Shore (center) and actor Kirk Douglas (far right) at a beach party in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1968

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#13 Philanthropist and socialite Mollie Wilmot leaning on a sofa while having a drink, Palm Beach, Florida, US, 1983

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#14 Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, during the filming of Mister Roberts in Hawaii, 1955

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#15 Yale student Edith Hansel lying on a sofa, Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic, circa 1990

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#16 From left: Hilda Juliette Arias de Rey Millet, Maria Victoria Herrera de Reynolds, and Serina Bradley Martin Sanchez, 1982.

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#17 Italian socialite Gioia Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona Lovatelli with her daughter Lucrezia, in Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, 1991

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#18 Guests at a beach hut at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969

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#19 A pool story

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#20 An unidentified woman stands in a garden wearing a strapless blue dress, Bermuda, 1957.

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#21 Hat designer Darcy Creech appearing from the window of a house with its facade covered with hats, September 1991

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#22 Carla Vuccino, in a swimming cap, and a sunbathing Marina Rava, both wearing bikinis as they sit on the rear of a boat off the coast of the island of Capri, Italy, 1958.

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#23 Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, wearing futuristic style sunglasses, on the Aga Khan’s yacht, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, August 1967

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