I've already mentioned this lady a million times, but I just adore her so much. I can't believe that there are no websites dedicated to this woman. There are also hardly any books. Nothing! I just don't understand, she's utterly amazing. I could sit and stare at her mysterious, whimsical and mystical photographs for hours and be led away to some magical place. Her images have a wonderful playfulness about them which make me smile :)
The fact that there are few I know that hardly know her... there's a little part of me inside that makes me want to keep her all to myself :) But I just can't! There's too much talent to be ignored.
So I've decided to collect everything I've found regarding Miss Sarah Moon mostly in content and post them on here so I don't lose them :)
QUOTES
♥"Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first." Sarah Moon
♥"To be more creative is to get closer to childhood." S. M. << my favourite quote
♥"I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story." S.M.
♥"I only witness my fantasies, my way of seeing beauty in women" S.M.
♥"I spend my time eliminating things, with the hope that there will be something left that will surprise me, that will make me forget that I am in a studio, in front of a model that I have booked, on a set on which I have spent hours fussing, with lights that it has taken a whole day to set up." S.M.
SOME ANALYSIS
♥"Looking into Sarah Moon’s extraordinary photographs is comparable to looking through a two-way mirror. The mirror surface becomes the print and the viewer has the privilege of standing on the ’other-side’ looking through the image at the same time. The living creatures are rendered so ’still’ and conversely the inanimate objects, such as the dolls, become human and expressive with their own inimitable character, ultimately mirroring each other." Michael Hoppen Gallery
♥"The dream world is quintessential to her work; her images lead us into a world bewitched. When men appear, her pictures move towards a more disturbing surrealism and a dangerous mystery is inferred. These are photographs in which the bizarre and unusual confront ordinary reality." Michael Hoppen Gallery
ASSORTED INTERESTING FINDINGS
♥Her work was mostly achieved using capricious techniques like sepia coloring on matte paper, toned silver gelatin printing, solarization, monochrome Polaroid pack, etc.
♥She was a former model and filmmaker
♥The sometimes out-of-focus images aren't on purpose, they are because she never wore her glasses
♥She despised colour but was forced to use it due to the death of b&w film. Yet she used it in her own way, decreasing the saturation or dramatically increasing it in order to create blinding colours. She had to do things her way and I don't think there's anyone who could replicate that grainy, moody yet playful and fantastic style she created.
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
♥A really beautiful and insightful interview by fashion photographer Frank Horvat on Sarah Moon in Paris 1986
♥Little Red Riding Hood book with pictures by Sarah Moon
♥Her 'Circus' book is amazing.
♥ Read 'Coincidences', guarantee you will see nothing like anything you've seen before in this book.
So after my late night research tonight I have discovered the reason why the work and biography of Sarah Moon remains very reserved. She was apparently a very private lady who shied away from the media. She loathed discussing her work because it was so private and personal to her, according to people in the past who have worked with her.
To view more of her work; only way to do so is by googling or purchasing the expensive books! :(
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