Born in Paris to a Franco-American father and German mother, Sarah Moon came to prominence as a photographer in the 1970s. Since then her painterly images have woven a filmic narrative into fashion photography, with the artist using models, and indeed ‘the architecture of clothes’ to fulfil her own fictional narratives. Shot on Polaroid negatives, Moon’s images are endowed with a softly poetic movement and muted, vibrating colours to create a romantic and melancholic mood. Whether photographing haute couture, still life or portraiture, Sarah Moon’s photographs exhibit a representation of femininity free from time and context, moving away from the sexualised, product based commercial work of her contemporaries and focusing instead on her own ‘language of the real’.
“I think of colour as more of a common language. More generous, more open, not transposed, the language of the real. When I shoot flowers or any still life, or fashion, colour forces me to be more abstract, I have to make the effort to transpose it, in order to get closer to what it was that first impressed me.”
- Sarah Moon, 2008
One of the artists represented at the Michael Hoppen Gallery booth at this years Zona Maco art fair in Mexico.
Booth E205
3 - 7 FEB 2016
