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At 18 years old, Aarons enlisted in the U.S. Army, worked as a photographer at West Point, and later served as a combat photographer in World War II and earned a Purple Heart. Aarons said combat had taught him the only beach worth landing on was "decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun."
After the war, Aarons moved to California and began photographing celebrities. In California, he shot his most praised photo, Kings of Hollywood, a 1957 New's Year's Eve photograph depicting Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart relaxing at a bar in full formal wear. Aaron's work appeared in Life, Town & Country, and Holiday magazines.
Aarons never used a stylist, or a makeup artist. He made his career out of what he called "photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
An oft-cited example of this approach is his 1970 Poolside Gossip shot at Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House, with owner Nelda Linsk as one of the models in the photo.
"I knew everyone," he said in an interview with The (London) Independent in 2002. "They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them." Alfred Hitchcock's film, Rear Window (1954), whose main character is a photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, is set in an apartment reputed to be based on Aarons' apartment.
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Poolside Poodle 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
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$3,348
Party preparations
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Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,025
Poolside ladies
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$4,025
Catch up by the pool
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$3,075
Poolside style
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$3,075
Cocktail hour
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$3,410
Poolside Tete a Tete
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$3,410
Poolside interruption
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$3,410
Palm Springs pool
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$2,560
Poolside catwalk
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$2,560
Poolside fashions
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$2,560
Poolside loungers
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$2,560
At The Linsk House
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$2,560
Poolside conversation
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$2,560
Desert house party
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$3,075
Palm Beach Idyll
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$2,471
September affair
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$2,560
Henley regatta
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$5,584
Modelling for Saks Fifth Avenue
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$4,025
Debutante ball
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$3,421
Saks fashion show
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$3,421
Burlington Arcade
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$3,075
Last-minute adjustments
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$3,075
Poolside Backgammon
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$3,075
Cricketers on the Pitch
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$3,075
Inga Lindgren and Poodles
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$2,560
Saks Fifth Ave
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$2,560
Palm beach society
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$3,075
Poolside Party
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$3,913
Palm Springs Party
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Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,025
Poolside Social
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$4,025
Poolside Poodle
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Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,025
At The Linsk House
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Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,634
On The slopes of Sugarbush
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$3,186