Sarah Moon – Souvenirs Improbables, First Edition, 1981

A rare first edition of Souvenirs Improbables by French photographer Sarah Moon, published by Delpire in 1981.One of Moon’s important early monographs, the book brings together 94 photographs from her work of the 1970s, including commissioned imagery created for fashion and editorial clients such as Cacharel, Vogue, Biba, Carita and Pirelli. The publication captures the visual language that established Moon as one of the most distinctive figures in post-war fashion photography: softened focus, pronounced grain, muted colour, deep shadow and an almost painterly sense of movement and disappearance. Le Plac’Art PhotoRather than treating fashion as straightforward documentation, Moon transforms garments and models into atmospheric, dreamlike compositions suspended somewhere between memory and fiction. Her images frequently evoke early pictorialist photography while remaining unmistakably rooted in the experimental fashion culture of the 1970s. Fotografie-Hall of FamePublished by the influential French photography publisher Robert Delpire, the volume was conceived and produced by Delpire together with Françoise Sadoux and includes a text by French writer Danièle Sallenave. The original edition is bound in cloth and retains its illustrated dust jacket. PerséeAn increasingly collectible early Sarah Moon publication and a particularly evocative document of the intersection between fashion, photography and fine art at the beginning of the 1980s.

L 30.5 cm x W 2.8 cm x H 24 cm – 2 kg
L 12.01 in x W 1.10 in x H 9.45 in