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.

Biography

Marielle Warin was born in Vernon, France in 1941. Her Jewish family was forced to leave

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for

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. 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 "

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", working closely with

Barbara Hulanicki Barbara Hulanicki (b. 1936) is a fashion designer, born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents and best known as the founder of clothes store Biba. Career Hulanicki was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Polish parents. Her father, Witold Hulanicki, ...

, who had launched the popular clothes store

Biba Biba was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. Biba was started and primarily run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki with help of her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon. Early years Biba's early years were rather humble, with many of the ou ...

.Pete Silverton, "Sarah Moon Profile"
''Professional Photographer''. Retrieved 28 March 2013. In 1972, she shot the ''Pirelli'' calendar, the first woman to do so. After working for a long time with

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, her reputation grew and she also received commissions from

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''. 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

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Publications

*''Improbable Memories.'' Matrix, 1981. . *''Vrais Semblants'' = Real Appearances. Parco, 1991. . *''Coïncidences.'' Santa Fe, NM: Arena, 2001. . *''Sarah Moon 1,2,3,4,5.'' London:

Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts. It also publishes books on archaeology, history, ...

, 2008. .

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 The Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP; European house of photography), located in the historic heart of Paris, is a center for contemporary photographic art opened in February 1996. Location and activities The Hotel Henault de Cantobre, ...

, 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 * 2012: ''The Black Hood'', Multimedia Art Museum /

Moscow House of Photography The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM; russian: link=no, Мультимедиа Арт Музей, Москва) is a Russian state museum dedicated to the presentation and development of contemporary art related to new multimedia technologies ...

* 2013: ''Alchimies: Sarah Moon'', Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris * 2015: ''Sarah Moon − Now and Then'', Haus der photographie

Deichtorhallen The Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, is one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography. The two historical buildings dating from 1911 to 1913 are iconic in style, with their open steel-and-glass structures. Their archi ...

, 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 Fotografiska is a centre for contemporary photography in the Södermalm district of Stockholm, Sweden that was founded by brothers Jan and Per Broman and opened on 21 May 2010. In March 2021, it merged with NeueHouse and is operated by Yoram Roth ...

, Stockholm, New York and Tallinn

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

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(DGPh), with

Robert Delpire Robert Delpire (24 January 1926 – 26 September 2017) was an art Publishing, publisher, Editing, editor, curator, film producer and graphic designer who lived and worked in Paris. He predominantly concerned himself with documentary photography, ...

The Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh)
. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie. Accessed 7 March 2017. * 2008:

Prix Nadar The Prix Nadar is an annual prize awarded for a photography book edited in France. The prize was created in 1955 by Association Gens d'Images and is awarded by a jury of photojournalists and publishing experts. The prize is named after Nadar, t ...

for (1 2 3 4 5, Delpire), Paris * 2018: Honorary Fellowship of the

Royal Photographic Society The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is one of the world's oldest photographic societies. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as the Photographic Society of London with ...

, Bath * 2022: Induction into the

International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in St. Louis, Missouri honors those who have made great contributions to the field of photography. History In 1977 the first Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Santa Barbara, California and a f ...

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