Villa Adrienne (2), 2009

Sarah Moon began photographing behind the scenes at fashion shows in the 1960s while working as a model in London. Her work quickly evolved, and soon Moon’s uniquely stylized images were in demand and she found herself fully immersed in photography, shooting for famous magazines like Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle. She also began to take photographs outside the commercial world. When asked what she finds most fascinating about photography, Moon states: "I think the relationship between photography and time, the constant allusion to loss, to memory, to death . . . that strange alchemy between desire and chance. It's what my father called ‘wishful thinking.’" This strange alchemy is what allows her work to transform reality. Sarah Moon’s The Garden possesses profound beauty and elegance that can only be described as sublime. Transcendent of the physical world, her work flirts with the tenets of surrealism. Moon allows her viewer to be privy to a place where time is static, and memory is an indelible mark upon a dislocated landscape.

Toned Gelatin-Silver Print
Image Size: 6 x 8 inches
Paper Size: 10 7/8 x 11 1/16 inches
Edition of 10 + 5 Artist Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

Sarah Moon (b. 1941, Vichy, France) grew up in England and began her career as a fashion model in the 1960s. Since 1968, she has worked as a fashion photographer and filmmaker. Her work is in numerous museum collections, including the Centre George Pompidou, Paris; George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Her books include Improbable Memories (1980), Little Red Riding Hood (1986), Vrais Semblants (1991), Inventario 1985-1997 (1997), Photo Poche 78: Sarah Moon (1998) and 1,2,3,4,5 (2008). In 1979, Moon began experimenting with making short films and was awarded the Grand Prix Lion d’Or at Cannes. In 1995 she made a documentary film about the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Her film Le Montreur d’Images, about her husband, the legendary publisher Robert Delpire, was shown at Aperture Gallery as part of the 2012 exhibition Delpire & Co.