Sarah Moon - Vrais Semblants - 1991

Vrais Semblants

Sarah Moon
PARCO/1991/japanese/H285×W224mm

"Vrais Semblants (With OBI)," a collection of works by Sarah Moon, one of France’s leading female photographers. This is the Japanese edition of a photo book published by Delpire in France (a publishing house headed by Robert Delpire, Sarah Moon’s husband). It comprises 81 carefully selected images, ranging from fashion photographs featured in publications such as *Yohji Yamamoto* and *Vogue* to snapshots, landscapes, and still lifes. The following is an excerpt from the artist’s preface: “I photograph privilege, illusions, transience, difference, or beauty. And I search for emotion there—emotions I have no clue how to find. I envy photographers who know how to capture reality. I avoid reality. I start from scratch. My photographs are not testimonies. I construct stories I have never even told myself. I imagine situations that are not real. I erase space to create new space there, and I attempt to manipulate light. I wait for the unexpected to appear. I recall what I had forgotten. I dismantle what I have created. And when I press the shutter, I hope to be moved by the realization: ‘Ah, this is it.’” Includes a book jacket.