Sarah Moon

photographer · author

Sarah Moon (born Marielle Sarah Warin) is a French photographer, filmmaker, and model. Born in Vernon, France, she began her career as a model in the 1960s under the name Marielle Hadengue before transitioning into photography in the early 1970s. She gained initial recognition for her fashion photography, notably for campaigns with brands like Cacharel, where she was noted for capturing a unique sense of complicity and intimacy with her subjects. In later years, Moon shifted toward more personal, introspective artistic projects, often utilizing Polaroid techniques to create dreamlike, fictional atmospheres influenced by expressionist cinema and fairy tales. Her work is characterized by its use of blur, color as a pigment-like element, and themes of memory, solitude, and the ephemeral nature of time.[1,2,3,4]

Themes

  • memory
  • death
  • childhood
  • femininity
  • solitude
  • fairy tales
  • fiction

Works by Sarah Moon

  • Le Fil rouge 2006 · Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art · book · English, French Adaptation of the Bluebeard tale.
  • Le Petit Chaperon Rouge 1983 · Grasset · book · French Illustrated by Sarah Moon with text by Charles Perrault.
  • Vrais semblants 1991 · Delpire · book · French
  • Coincidences 2001 · Delpire · book · French
  • Passé Présent. Sarah Moon 2020 · Paris Musées / Musée d'Art moderne de Paris · book · French

Exhibitions

  • 2020 PasséPrésent Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, Paris solo
  • 2011 1-2-3-4-5, Sarah MOON Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre, Nice solo

Awards

  • 2006 Lucie Award New York
  • 2008 Prix Nadar France
  • 2009 Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres France

References

  1. Sarah Moon link
  2. Dans la lune avec Sarah Moon. 2020 link
  3. Sarah Moon - Artistes. Delpire link
  4. Sarah Moon. MAM. 2020 link