Coincidences.

Photographs by Sarah Moon. Text by Robert Delpire.

Arena Editions, Santa Fe, 2001. 288 pp., 178 duotone and 26 four-color illustrations, 12x11".

A fashion and commercial photographer since 1968 and also a filmmaker, Sarah Moon is known for her dreamlike images and her representation of femininity as free from time and context, as living in a fairy world. Although Moon has been a major participant in the world of fashion for more than three decades, she has carefully carved out her own niche-a signature style that dispenses with the erotically suggestive poses favored by many of her male counterparts in favor of the emblems of luxury and nostalgia. Mystery and sensuality are at the core of Moon's work, whether she's photographing haute couture, still life, or portraiture. In this book, Moon's first major retrospective, viewers will be treated to a visual tour-de-force, showing all the genres she has explored in her rich and diverse career.

Born Marielle Hadengue in England in 1940, Sarah Moon studied drawing in art school in the late 1950s. By 1960 she had become a major fashion model, and it was through this work that she was first introduced to fashion photography. Around 1966, Moon's early fashion photographs gained notoriety. They were first exhibited at the Modinsolite exhibition of avant-garde fashion photography, held at the now-legendary Delpire Gallery, Paris, and sponsored by Kodak in 1968. Moon soon became known for her moody, impressionistic style and began to photograph for Vogue, Nova, Elle, British Harper's Bazaar, Delpire was also the director of Delpire Gallery in the St. Germain district of Paris, the first Paris gallery dedicated exclusively to photography. Delpire wMarie-Claire, Votre Beaute, and numerous others. Since 1980, Moon has done more than 150 clips and advertising films for such clients as Bally, Barney's, Courreges, Danone (Andy Award of Merit, 1983), Purina (Silver Lion, Cannes, 1989), Revlon (Clio Award, 1984), and TWA. Moon's feature-length film, Mississippi One, was released in 1990. Sarah Moon currently works and resides in Paris.

Robert Delpire is the legendary publisher of such classic photography books as Robert Frank's Les Americains (1958) and Henri Cartier-Bresson's Flagrant Delits (1968). In addition to Frank and Cartier-Bresson, since the 1950s Delpire has produced many of the most prestigious photography books under the imprint Delpire Editeur, with such noteworthy photographers as Rene Burri, Werner Bischof, Brassai, Inge Morath, and Josef Koudelka. Delpire's Photo Poche photography book series revolutionized the mass market dissemination and appreciation of the medium. In the 1970s works and resides in Paris.

"...On a rainy day, in the morning light, I look back at all these photos I have accumulated-moments of awakening, split seconds, a slow motion rough cut from a film, which I have been living by proxy, more from outside than inside... Is it dreams that my photographs are about? Or even better, are they hallucinations?"
-Sarah Moon

Moon's first major retrospective contains a stunning cross-section of the numerous genres she has explored during her 30 year involvement with photography, including 26 signature color images. "...On a rainy day, in the morning light, I look back at all these photos I have accumulated-- moments of awakening, split seconds, a slow motion rough cut from a film, which I have been living by proxy, more from outside than inside... Is it dreams that my photographs are about? Or even better, are they hallucinations?--Sarah Moon.

Cat# AE042H Hardbound $125.00 (978-1-892041-46-3)
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