Exposition Sarah Moon @ Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York - "Sarah Moon: On the Edge"

Sarah Moon: On the Edge

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

17 février - 6 avril 2024

Quarante années de travail présentées à travers une sélection d'un peu plus de 30 photographies de la fin des années 1980 à 2022. C'est l'exercice auquel s'est livré Sarah Moon (née en 1941) pour l'exposition Sarah Moon : On the Edge à la Howard Greenberg Gallery à New York. La galerie présente ainsi des photographies allant des fameuses images de mode aux paysages de Coney Island et de Toscane.

"Tout au long, j'ai essayé d'éviter l'anecdote, en cherchant un écho entre ce que je vois et ce que je ressens, en essayant d'atteindre ce point visuel de non-retour, cette seconde qui ne peut plus se reproduire" souligne Sarah Moon. "Aujourd'hui, je me rends compte que le minimalisme signifie de plus en plus pour moi quoi que je photographie, en essayant d'aller à l'essentiel de ce que je vois, en recadrant le sujet hors de son contexte, en le réduisant à cette seconde, à cette limite de temps, en saisissant la lumière. avant qu'il ne disparaisse. Les photos que je présente ici sont à la limite de cette tentative".

HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY

41 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022

www.howardgreenberg.com

Sarah Moon @ Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris - PasséPrésent

Sarah Moon, PasséPrésent
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Réouverture du musée : 7 juillet
Jusqu'au 16 août 2020

SARAH MOON

Yohji Yamamoto II, 1996

© Sarah Moon

« C’est à la fois pour m’approcher et m’échapper de la réalité qu’instinctivement j’ai regardé à travers l’objectif d’un appareil photographique. » – Sarah Moon

Le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris présente l’exposition « PasséPrésent » autour de l’oeuvre de SARAH MOON. Reconnue comme une grande photographe de mode, active en France et à l’étranger depuis la fin des années soixante, ses réalisations débordent pourtant ce seul domaine, et l’exposition souhaite faire découvrir la singularité de son travail, tant photographique que cinématographique, oscillant entre reflets et transparence, mirages et obscurité.

Dans le prolongement de sa carrière de mannequin, au début des années soixante, Sarah Moon commence à pratiquer la photographie en autodidacte et reçoit ses premières commandes. En 1968, sa collaboration avec Corinne Sarrut pour l’image de la marque Cacharel bénéficie d’un écho international dans la photographie de mode, dominée par les hommes. Elle façonne un imaginaire immédiatement reconnaissable au fil de ses campagnes, affiches et magazines. Les femmes qui peuplent ses photographies semblent suspendues dans le cours d’un récit où affleurent les références littéraires et cinématographiques.

En 1985, à la mort de son assistant, Mike Yavel, Sarah Moon développe une pratique personnelle, au-delà des commandes qui continuent d’affluer. Des thématiques apparaissent de façon rémanente dans ses photographies, à travers une recherche perpétuelle de l’imprévisible et de l’instant suspendu.

A rebours de tout déroulé chronologique, Sarah Moon a souhaité croiser pour cette exposition les époques, les typologies, les sujets, afin de montrer leurs porosités. Le parcours est constitué autour d’un choix de films, pour la plupart des adaptations de contes populaires, qui forment un fil narratif à partir duquel le visiteur est invité à évoluer. Chaque film – Circus (2002), Le Fil rouge (2005), Le chaperon noir (2010), L’Effraie (2004), Où va le blanc ? (2013) - fonctionne comme une escale autour de laquelle les images s’organisent et s’animent.

L’exposition est complétée par une salle, dans le parcours des collections permanentes, dédiée à ROBERT DELPIRE (1926-2017), qui partagea la vie de Sarah Moon durant quarante-huit ans. Elle présente des photographies, des affiches, des livres, des films, qui restituent les activités plurielles de ce personnage phare de l’histoire culturelle française, l’un de ses plus importants éditeurs, mais aussi directeur artistique de l’agence de publicité Delpire qu’il a créée, et fondateur du Centre National de la Photographie qu’il a dirigé de 1983 à 1996.

Un catalogue comprenant des essais et des témoignages est publié aux Editions Paris Musées.

Commissaire de l'exposition : Fanny Schulmann

MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE PARIS
11 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris
www.mam.paris.fr

Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Collection of Peter Fetterman – Phillips Online Auction

Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Collection of Peter Fetterman
Phillips online auction
June 18 – 25, 2020

SARAH MOON

Fashion 10 (N.Y. Times), 1998

Estimate: $20,000 – 30,000

Photo © Sarah Moon, Courtesy of Phillips

Phillips announces Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Collection of Peter Fetterman, an exclusive online auction that celebrates a century of fashion photography, tracing the history of women’s fashion through 64 quintessential images spanning from the 1920s to today. Drawn from the collection of esteemed gallerist and collector Peter Fetterman, Tailor-Made includes work by legendary fashion photographers Lillian Bassman, Sarah Moon, Sheila Metzner, Gordon Parks, Ormond Gigli, William Klein, and Horst P. Horst, among many others. The sale will be live to bidders worldwide June 18 - 25 on Phillips.com. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative to help further their mission to end mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the US, and to challenge racial and economic injustice, and to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

GORDON PARKS

James Galanos Fashion, Hollywood, California, 1961

Estimate: $5,000 – 7,000

Photo © Gordon Parks, Courtesy of Phillips

For more than 30 years, Peter Fetterman has collected and championed the work of the photographers represented in this sale, with many of them becoming close personal friends. “While the essence of fashion is beauty and dreams,” states Peter Fetterman, “these photographers taught me so much about the context in which their images were made. The photographers represented here shaped my eye and my taste, for which I owe them all a great debt. Further, in the context of rampant injustice now being foregrounded in this country, I’m pleased to support the Equal Justice Initiative whose work I deeply admire.”

Sarah Krueger, Head of the Photographs Department in New York, states: “It is a pleasure to partner once again with Peter Fetterman on a sale of such exciting material. While fashion photography is a regular presence in our auctions, it is a new and entirely thrilling experience to work with a collection like this, assembled over the years with such singular focus and flare.”

Fashion photography has long been a driver of innovation in the medium, both technically and aesthetically, and this depth and breadth of creativity is demonstrated throughout Tailor-Made.

Highlighting the sale are works by Sarah Moon, whose bold, impressionistic use of color and deft manipulation of light and movement result in images that defy expectations. Sheila Metzner is another of fashion photography’s iconoclasts, and her Campidoglio plays with scale and movement within a setting that is simultaneously classical and surreal. Lillian Bassman rounds out this trio of women photographers for whom mood, atmosphere, and gesture embody elegance and style.

SARAH MOON

Fashion 4, Yohji Yamamoto, 1996

Estimate: $40,000 – 60,000

Photo © Sarah Moon, Courtesy of Phillips

SHEILA METZNER

Campidoglio, 1986

Estimate: $12,000 – 18,000

Photo © Sheila Metzner, Courtesy of Phillips

LILLIAN BASSMAN

More Fashion Mileage Per Dress, Barbara Vaughn, 

Harper's Bazaar, New York, 1954

Estimate: $12,000 – 18,000

Photo © Lillian Bassman, Courtesy of Phillips

Driven to create ever-new imagery to keep pace with the evolving styles, photographers continually created new modes and innovative ways to showcase fashion. Melvin Sokolsky placed his models in bubbles on location in New York and Paris, creating iconic images of mid-century technology and culture, while Ormond Gigli surmounted the many logistical and technical challenges in making his instantly recognizable Models in the Windows, New York City.

ORMOND GIGLI

Girls in the Windows, New York City, 1960

Estimate $30,000 – 50,000

Photo © Ormond Gigli, Courtesy of Phillips

William Klein abandoned the controlled confines of the studio to make images that have more in common with his street work than conventional fashion photography. Jerry Schatzberg and Gordon Parks, who both worked in cinema, bring a sense of movement and narrative to their imagery. While Georges Dambier, Norman Parkinson, Brian Duffy, and William Helburn create impossibly elegant images of modern women moving through the metropolis.

The photographs in Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection demonstrate their makers’ expansive understanding of what makes a great, compelling, and enduring fashion photograph, and the auction offers collectors a unique opportunity to acquire works from this remarkable collection. 

*Estimates do not include buyer’s premium; prices achieved include the hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

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Sarah Moon @ Mercanteinfiera OFF, Parma

At Mercanteinfiera OFF time and beauty according to Sarah Moon

A major name in contemporary photography is to star in the third "Mercanteinfiera Off", the cultural fringe event promoted by Fiere di Parma and the Municipality of Parma, as part of the homonymous antiques and modern and vintage collectables festival running from 1 to 9 October.

The artist is Sarah Moon, a French photographer whose work for many years has explored beauty and the passage of time. Her images will be displayed at the "Sarah Moon in Parma.Photographs” exhibition curated by 2016 Mercanteinfiera Prize winner Carla Sozzani.

Running from 16 September-15 October in the Palazzetto Eucherio Sanvitale building, set in the picturesque Parco Ducale, the exhibition is a journey through a magical world of poetic images: mysterious photographs, dramatically charged and yet intimate, that create the sensation of looking through bright portals onto an entire world.

Sarah Moon’s exhibition continues the guiding theme for this autumn’s edition of Mercanteinfiera, inspired by the feminine universe. It is joined in this by two further fringe exhibitions held in the Fiere di Parma exhibition centre alongside the fair itself. Both centred on women. “Muse-en-scene”, curated by Alessandro Malinverni, Alberto Nodolini and Carlo Mambriani, reconstructs curtains and backdrops made 200 years ago for Parma’s Regio theatre, built by Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma. Whilst "Secrets of queens, queens of secrets”, in partnership with Genoa’s Palazzo Reale Museum, is a fascinating journey through noblewomen’s most well-loved rituals, objects and manufactured items.

Young but already set to go far. And above all, able to bridge the gap between different forms of artistic expression, creating a dialogue between them whilst fixing his gaze set on the contemporary. These are the reasons for the expert panel’s choice of Gianluigi Ricuperati to take up the baton from Carla Sozzani as winner of the 2017 Mercanteinfiera Prize.

The writer from Turin will be a main attraction at the next edition of Mercanteinfiera, the event that is becoming less an antiques fair and more a multidisciplinary project for combining the arts.

Mercanteinfiera OFF, Parma
www.mercanteinfiera.it

Sarah Moon, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto - Inventaire 1985-1999

Sarah Moon: Inventaire 1985-1999
Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto
April 15 - May 15, 1999  

Marking Sarah Moon's first ever Canadian exhibition, Jane Corkin Gallery presents a retrospective of her work spanning the last 14 years.

Sarah Moon, born in Paris in 1941, is well known for her painterly fashion photographs seen in Marie-Claire, Elle and French, British and American Vogue. Fashion is not the only genre for Sarah Moon. She also turns her camera to landscapes, animals and gardens. Her photographs are mysterious, so intimate and dramatic they entice the viewer to take a closer look. This is evident in her close-up portraits such as that of Yaël Raich.

Her most recent work is large-scale colour, made as pigment saturated prints on watercolour paper. The colour defies photography. Here female forms are reduced to silhouettes and gowns to flickering shadows dissolving into deep pools of turquoise, wine or amber light. It is these ethereal images where it is most apparent that Sarah Moon does not merely photograph clothes, but the memories of clothes.

It is apparent that Sarah Moon is often inspired by children's fantasies and creates images about imagination. Her narratives are inspired by nostalgia evoking memories of childhood emotions.

The darker side of nature often predominates resulting in images that are at times frightening. An especially haunting photograph includes that of a flock of birds framed, lighted and printed in such a way that the creatures are rendered otherworldly. These black and white photographs are a precursor to her film achievements.

In 1991 she achieved critical success in the film industry for her award-winning feature film Mississipi One shown in Toronto at the International Film Festival that same year. Also directed by Sarah Moon are four other films including a documentary on well-known photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. She continues to work in film and to photograph in both colour and black and white.

Black & white photographs are either:

30 x 40 cm (11 13/16" x 15 3/4")

40 x 50 cm (15 3/4" x 19 11/16")

50 x 60 cm (19 11/16" x 23 5/8")

Colour photographs exist only as 74 x 57 cm (29 1/8" x 22 7/16")

Prices range from $2000 - $7750 US

JANE CORKIN GALLERY
179 John Street, Suite 302, Toronto, ON, M5T 1X4
www.janecorkin.com