Slim, she said—later providing documents and photographs—was not who he professed to be: a free spirit estranged from his parents.

Slim would always feel he was on the outside looking in, though, with his camera, he was productive not defeated, transforming his vantage point into one that the world could marvel at. The home’s significance is compounded by prominent former owners, including Barry Manilow and the person for whom the home was built—Edgar J. Working in close partnership with the prestigious Getty Images Archive and Slim Aarons Estate, we offer officially certified prints from this beautiful collection.GALERIE PRINTS offers premium quality photographic prints from the Slim Aarons Archive owned and housed by the Getty Images Archive in London. In 2007, Getty Images released a book of the artist’s work Poolside With Slim Aarons, putting a capstone on his legacy. My son asked me if I’d heard of the photographer Slim Aarons and I remembered looking at his photographs of beautiful people by beautiful pools 40 years ago - so I looked him up at the library and found this book focused on just that- beautiful people by beautiful pools. From the Caribbean to Italy and Mexico to Monaco, the photographs featured in the extravagant Poolside with Slim Aarons whisks the reader away to an exclusive club where taste, style, luxury, and grandeur prevail.

The architectural settings of the pools carved out of rocks were my favorites- except the best which was the photo of Mrs Aarons and her children at Christmas in the family pool in the Hollywood Hills, with a giant Christmas tree and ornaments throughout the pool.

There’s no denying his most iconic photos are of attractive people, doing attractive things, in attractive places – but I think for fans of his work today, there’s such a fascination with this period of distinct class, carefree love and expenditure that drives so much interest.