Sarah Moon HonFRPS (born Marielle Warin; 1941) is a French photographer. Initially a model, she turned to fashion photography in the 1970s. Since 1985, she has concentrated on gallery and film work.
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Biography
Marielle Warin was born in Vernon, France in 1941. Her Jewish family was forced to leave occupied France for England. As a teenager she studied drawing before working as a model in London and Paris (1960–1966) under the name Marielle Hadengue. She also became interested in photography, taking shots of her model colleagues. In 1970, she finally decided to spend all her time on photography rather than modelling, adopting Sarah Moon as her new name. She successfully captured the fashionable atmosphere of London after the "swinging sixties", working closely with Barbara Hulanicki, who had launched the popular clothes store Biba.
In 1972, she shot the Pirelli calendar, the first woman to do so. After working for a long time with Cacharel, her reputation grew and she also received commissions from Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Vogue. Since 1985, Moon has moved into gallery work and even started developing her own films including Circuss (2002) and Le Fil Rouge (2006). She later directed the music video for Khaled's pop hit Aïcha.
Publications
Improbable Memories. Matrix, 1981. ISBN 978-0-936554-31-0.
Vrais Semblants = Real Appearances. Parco, 1991. ISBN 9784891942892.
Coïncidences. Santa Fe, NM: Arena, 2001. ISBN 978-1-892041-46-3.
Sarah Moon 1,2,3,4,5. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. ISBN 978-0500287835.
Exhibitions
1980: "Fashon" festival de photographie, Arles, France
1983: Center of Photography, New York
1993: Staley-Wise Gallery, New York
2002: Haus der Photographie, Hamburg
2003: Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris
2004: Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2008: Cirkus, Leica Gallery, Prague
2011: Théâtre de la Photographie et de l'Image Charles Nègre, Nice
2011: 12345, Fotografiska Stockholm, Sweden
2012: The Black Hood, Multimedia Art Museum / Moscow House of Photography
2013: Alchimies: Sarah Moon, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
2014: The Red Thread, Fotografiska Stockholm
2015: Sarah Moon − Now and Then, Haus der photographie Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2016: Sarah Moon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Modern Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan
2020: Sarah Moon − PastPresent, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris
2021: Sarah Moon − At the Still Point, Fotografiska Stockholm, New York
2022: Sarah Moon − At the Still Point, Fotografiska Tallinn, Estonia
Awards
1985: International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Applied Photography
1995: Grand Prix national de la photographie, France
2007: The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography (DGPh), with Robert Delpire
2008: Prix Nadar for (1 2 3 4 5, Delpire), Paris
2018: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath
2022: Induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum