Yesterday’s post closed with a photograph by Sarah Moon.
Since she’s currently got an exhibition on at Le Botanique (until 14th August), let’s briefly look at her work.
Born in England in the early ‘40s to a family of French origins (her name is Marielle Hadengue), Moon worked as a fashion model in 1960 and at times took images of her friends during their free time.
Her hobby soon became her job though and, from the mid-to-late ‘60s, frustrated about being just a model (and thinking her role was pretty dull compared to that of the photographer who seemed to be doing all the work on the set...), she turned to fashion photography.
Featured on many prominent magazines, including Vogue, Elle and Harper's Bazaar, Moon created both commercial (also calendars like Pirelli’s and advertising campaigns) and non-commercial work, shooting advertising films for prominent clients and later on turning to document films.
Among her most famous films there are Circus, based on the tale "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Point d'interrogation, released in 1994.
The recipient of numerous prizes, Moon is famous for working like an artisan rather than like a photographer, producing dream-like and timelessly impressionistic images usually characterised by delicately evanescent and soft-focus visions often in sepia tones, drenched in nostalgia, melancholy and romance, at times revolving around themes such as memory and childhood.
Entitled "Coincidences", the exhibition at Brussels' Botanique includes photographs and films produced after 1985, as well as some earlier fashion photography.
For further inspiration I’m embedding here a video about Sarah Moon’s work and a clip about a previous exhibition on women photographers (including Sarah Moon, Lillian Bassman, Louise Dahl Wolfe, Frauke Eigen and Sheila Metzner among the others) that you may also find interesting.
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