Signed Sarah Moon - 1 2 3 4 5 with the film on DVD Mississipi One - 2011

Exceptionally signed by Sarah Moon at the beginning of volumes 1 and 4, this set of 5 photography volumes is housed in a sturdy case, with the last volume accompanied by a 95-minute film, 'Mississipi One'. This is the updated 2011 edition.

These various volumes, which have continuous pagination of 449 pages for the first four volumes and 49 pages for the last, are accompanied by texts, interviews, and analyses, all published simultaneously in French and English. Sarah Moon provides numerous comments that clarify her photographic practice as well as the different stages of her work. These comments are essential for understanding the photographs she has produced and the various books she has published. Volume 4 consists of color photographs. In total, there are more than 350 photographs, including 45 in color, most full-page and some double-page.

Books from my personal collection, in excellent condition, kept with the utmost care. The case that holds the 5 volumes is very sturdy, although it shows very slight signs of use. Shipping is very effectively protected and international tracked mail is guaranteed. For multiple purchases, there is the possibility of combined shipping with a refund of the excess postal fees paid via Paypal.

Photographer Sarah Moon, born in France in 1941. She initially worked as a fashion model in her youth before becoming famous as a fashion photographer and advertising film director, particularly for the magazine Vogue and fashion houses such as Chanel and Dior. In her work for fashion, she has been able to portray women from a unique perspective due to her relationship with the models, with whom she shared her universe during her youth.

She then decided to develop a highly personal photographic work that achieved great international success in galleries and museums around the world. She adopted the black and white Polaroid with negative to refine her photographic style, which at once recalls pictorialism and expressionism, and sometimes abstract art. Her shots are sometimes marked by degradations that evoke the passage of time, decomposition, and the relentless march toward destruction. These accidents caused during development also symbolize the fragility of memory. She also practices different forms of artistic blurring, either through the movement of the subject with a long exposure time or by repeated exposures of the same image, slightly offset each time, which doubles the contours of the image.

Sarah Moon writes: "I believe in the language of the image. I believe that the frame clarifies, that black and white unrealizes, and that light, it makes day and night." She also specifies: "Anyway, I am in fiction as soon as I take anything out of its context."
Sarah Moon also created color photographs where she explores, in a different way, 'the light of shadow' and abstraction.

Sarah Moon often used fairy tales as her subject, thus extending her other favorite themes of childhood and imagination. She created a series of photographic illustrations of the fairy tales by Charles Perrault (awarded at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 1984) and Andersen, and she also appears as a storyteller through her voice in the films on compact discs made alongside her photographic works.

4.45 kg excluding packaging.