Sarah Moon is a French photographer born in 1941 into a Jewish family forced to leave occupied France. She went to England and there studied drawing. Sarah Moon exercises the profession of modeling from 1960 to 1966, and turned to photography from 1970. She became famous for its advertising campaign for Cacharel. In his work for fashion, she was able to show women in a particular angle because of its relationship with the models she has shared the world during his youth. The looks and attitudes it has captured in his photographs reveal a degree of complicity that has distinguished men in fashion photography.
After 15 years working in fashion, responding to commands from brands such as Vogue, Chanel, or Dior, Sarah Moon’s career takes a turn when the artist decided to devote more time to photograph even more personal, more introspective and this time purely artistic. It “fate” when studios for its stagings of fashion, and made Paris his playground, by choice she said, and “convenience », although the city is never really about his photographs, but much more decor unrecognizable. That will be at that time it will adopt the Polaroid negative black and white as a medium of its expression.
Until then, it was accompanied by Patrick Toussaint performs for her laboratory work.
In terms of photography, Sarah Moon cites the work of Guy Bourdin as the excellence that has given the most desire to head fashion. However, in his later works at the time of his work in fashion, one can easily recognize his interest in cinema of the thirties, including the German expressionist cinema. The grain, the overall aesthetics of the photographs of Sarah Moon form a constant reference to the origins of the medium (it can be noted, among other things, a nude dating 1977, “Nu”, recalling strongly – both in its scope than its aesthetic approximation to painting and sculpture – the series of nudes done around 1854 by Eugene Delacroix Eugène Durieu for).
Among the recurring themes that emerge from the work of Sarah Moon include the memory, death, childhood, femininity, solitude.
