Slim Aarons valuation
Spent his career photographing what he called attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.
Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was born George Allen Aarons in Manhattan and learned photography in the army, first at West Point and then as a combat photographer for Yank, the army weekly, through the Second World War.
What a work by Slim Aarons is worth
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Bio
Slim Aarons (1916–2006) was born George Allen Aarons in Manhattan and learned photography in the army, first at West Point and then as a combat photographer for Yank, the army weekly, through the Second World War. Afterwards he turned his back on war and spent the rest of his career photographing, in his own words, attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places. For Holiday, Town & Country, Life and Travel + Leisure he photographed the rich and famous at their ease in Palm Beach, Gstaad, Capri, Acapulco and the South of France: by the pool, on the slopes, on terraces and on yachts. Poolside Gossip, taken at the Kaufmann house in Palm Springs in 1970, is the best known of his pictures. His archive is now held by Getty Images.
Three kinds of print carry his name, and they are very different things. Prints made and signed in his lifetime are rare. The Slim Aarons Estate edition, printed through Getty Images from the original transparencies in London, is limited to 150 prints of each image, made as C-type prints in several sizes, each embossed with the estate stamp, numbered by hand and issued with a certificate. And the images have been reproduced endlessly as posters and open-edition prints, which carry no stamp and no number. Which of the three you have is the first question. For an estate print, the stamp, the number, the size and the certificate decide the rest, and because these are colour prints, fading from light and damage from framing matter too.
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