User:Kmelbellmo/Sarah Moon

Sarah Moon is an impressionist photographer of the fine art and fashion worlds, and is known particularly for her dreamlike black and white photography, portraying real-world images in a surreal form by way of grainy texture and subtle light variations.

She was born in England in 1940 as Marielle Hadengue.

Moon studied drawing

From 1960 to 1966, she modeled in both London and Paris, but soon moved into fashion photography in 1967. She also began making publicity films

The compositions of Moon's photographic style are often luxurious, intriguing and soft. Many of her models appear disengaged in the photos, out of focus and intentionally turned away from the camera. Her photographs are exceptionally unique in their mode of development, printed as sepia color images on matte paper. This printing method dates back to the 1920s when it was most popular.

Moon currently works on illustrations, fashion and photography in Paris

Images of animals, portraits, still lifes, and wonderful landscapes both rural and urban fill out her oeuvre. In her black-and-white images, Moon (also a filmmaker) masterfully tends the edges of darkness where the merest hints of light create detail, texture, and form. Her tasty color work is highly saturated and grainy. Innovative, witty, and seductive, Moon's photographs draw the viewer into a dream world, at once soothing and vaguely troubled like the opening of a storm. Everything a great art book should be, this volume makes apparent Moon's original contribution to photography over the last 30 years. Highly recommended for large public and academic photographic departments, the book may be of special interest to clothing design/fashion collections. Debora Miller, Minneapolis