Italy: Nadav Kander, Alex Majoli and Sarah Moon

On view at The Mattatoio di Testaccio, Rome
February 23 - May 16


Fotografia. Nuove produzioni 2020 per la collezione Roma is an exhibition organized by Rome's Cultural Development Department, in tandem with the International Photography Festival in Rome. Bringing together work by several internationally renowned photographers, the exhibition highlights new and experimental approaches to documenting reality and to investigating history. With contributions from Nadav Kander, Alex Majoli, and Sarah Moon (who also produced a video work), among others.

 

 

 

Alex Majoli, Scene 9039, 2020

Sarah Moon, Rome, 2019

Nadav Kander, Enduring Generations VII, 2019

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Paris: Sarah Moon - Past Present

 SARAH MOON Past Present
18 Sept 2020 – 10 Jan 2021

The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is presenting the exhibition PastPresent, devoted to the work of Sarah Moon. Active in France and abroad since the late 1960s, she is recognised as a great fashion photographer; but she is far from limited to this single field, and the aim of this exhibition is to reveal the singularity of a photographic and cinematic oeuvre fluctuating between reflections and transparency, mirages and obscurity.

As an adjunct to her career as a model, in the early sixties she started working as a self-taught photographer. Commissions began to come in and in 1968 her collaboration with Corinne Sarrut on the Cacharel image drew attention on the male-dominated international fashion scene. Her advertising campaigns, posters and magazine work were marked by an immediately recognisable imagination, with the women who peopled her images seemingly suspended in the course of a narrative sprinkled with literary and filmic references.

The death of her assistant Mike Yavel in 1985 saw Moon turn to personal projects in addition to the steady influx of commissions. Various themes recur in her photographs, as part of an endless quest for the unexpected and the moment when time stands still.

Opting for a strictly non-chronological approach to this exhibition, the artist has chosen an interweaving of eras, typologies and subjects that illustrates their reciprocal porousness. The main strand – a selection of her films, mostly adapted  from popular tales – provides an ongoing narrative that invites visitor interaction. Each film – Circus (2002), Le Fil rouge (The Guiding Thread, 2005), Le chaperon noir (Little Black Riding Hood, 2010), L’Effraie (The Barn owl, 2004), Où va le blanc? (Where Does the White Go?, 2013) – serves as a kind of stopover where the images are orchestrated and come to life.

The exhibition is rounded off by the room in the permanent collection dedicated to Robert Delpire (1926–2017), Sarah Moon's companion for forty-eight years. Photographs, posters, books and films cover the multiple activities of this key figure in French cultural history: one of its most important publishers, creator and artistic director of the Delpire advertising agency, and founder of the Centre National de la Photographie, which he directed from 1983 to 1996.

The catalogue, containing essays and tributes, is published by Paris Musées.

Curator : Fanny Schulmann

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Selected Book: Sarah Moon: 12345

A BOOK WE LOVE!

 

Curiously, Sarah Moon is not very famous in the US but she is a huge "photo star" in France. We had the chance to see her work many times and we have all her books! 12345 is for sure one of our favorites. Not only because it is 5 books in one, but also because you can discover her film Mississippi One (free DVD included). We can only regret it is not translated in English...

 

 

All about Sarah Moon 

Sarah Moon: About Color at Michael Hoppen Gallery

If you are in London don't miss this incredible exhibition of Sarah Moon's latest work. In this show you will be able to see photographs she has never displayed to the public before.

Hurry it is until April 5, 2014

All about the exhibition
All about Sarah Moon