With a special focus on the film works, for the first time ever the oeuvre of the photographer Sarah Moon will be presented as a retrospective in the House of Photography at the Deichtorhallen from November 27, 2015, to February 21, 2016. Some 350 photographs and five films allow visitors to immerse themselves in Sarah Moon’s magical world.
Born in 1941, the photographer grew up in England and France. After working in Paris as a model for several years, she took up photography in 1968. In these years, she adopted the artist’s name Sarah Moon. Her first campaign pictures for the Cacharel fashion label were followed by innumerable advertising photographs for Dior, Chanel, Comme des Garçons, Issey Miyake and Valentino among others, as well as fashion features for magazines.
Yet Sarah Moon is much more than a fashion photographer. She makes short films and documentaries (including portraits of her close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson and Lillian Bassman) as well as the feature film »Mississipi One«. In this way, over decades she has developed an individual artistic oeuvre in photograhy and film outside of her commissioned works.
[words from Deichtorhallen website]
