Sarah Moon

Biography

Sarah Moon HonFRPS (born Marielle Warin; 1941) is a French photographer. Initially a model, she turned to fashion photography in the 1970s. Since 1985, she has concentrated on gallery and film work.

== Biography == Marielle Warin was born in Vernon, France in 1941. Her Jewish family was forced to leave occupied France for England. As a teenager she studied drawing before working as a model in London and Paris (1960–1966) under the name Marielle Hadengue. She also became interested in photography, taking shots of her model colleagues. In 1970, she finally decided to spend all her time on photography rather than modelling, adopting Sarah Moon as her new name. She successfully captured the fashionable atmosphere of London after the "swinging sixties", working closely with Barbara Hulanicki, who had launched the popular clothes store Biba. In 1972, she shot the Pirelli calendar, the first woman to do so. After working for a long time with Cacharel, her reputation grew and she also received commissions from Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Vogue. Since 1985, Moon has moved into gallery work and even started developing her own films including Circuss (2002) and Le Fil Rouge (2006). She later directed the music video for Khaled's pop hit Aïcha.

== Publications == Improbable Memories. Matrix, 1981. ISBN 978-0-936554-31-0. Vrais Semblants = Real Appearances. Parco, 1991. ISBN 9784891942892. Coïncidences. Santa Fe, NM: Arena, 2001. ISBN 978-1-892041-46-3. Sarah Moon 1,2,3,4,5. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. ISBN 978-0500287835.

== Exhibitions ==

1980: "Fashon" festival de photographie, Arles, France 1983: Center of Photography, New York 1993: Staley-Wise Gallery, New York 2002: Haus der Photographie, Hamburg 2003: Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris 2004: Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 2008: Cirkus, Leica Gallery, Prague 2011: Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image Charles Nègre, Nice 2011: 12345, Fotografiska Stockholm, Sweden 2012: The Black Hood, Multimedia Art Museum / Moscow House of Photography 2013: Alchimies: Sarah Moon, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris 2014: The Red Thread, Fotografiska Stockholm 2015: Sarah Moon − Now and Then, Haus der photographie Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 2016: Sarah Moon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Modern Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan 2020: Sarah Moon − PastPresent, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris 2021: Sarah Moon − At the Still Point, Fotografiska Stockholm, New York 2022: Sarah Moon − At the Still Point, Fotografiska Tallinn, Estonia

== Awards == 1985: International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Applied Photography 1995: Grand Prix national de la photographie, France 2007: The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography (DGPh), with Robert Delpire 2008: Prix Nadar for (1 2 3 4 5, Delpire), Paris 2018: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath 2022: Induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum

== References ==

== Further reading == Rosenblum, Naomi. A History of Women Photographers (Third ed.). New York; London: Abbeville.