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Moon, Sarah (Artist/Photographer); Delpire, Robert (Contributor) & Richardson, Bob (Recipient) : Unlikeness: Photographs By Sarah Moon

Editions Robert Delpire, Paris, France, 1991

ISBN 2851070061

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of photographs, presented as an Artist Book. One of Sarah Moon's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Sarah Moon and Robert Delpire: Oversize-volume format. Pristine-white softcovers, as issued. Photographs and brief Introduction by Sarah Moon. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Switzerland to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Sarah Moon's "Unlikeness". Some of her finest and most representative photographs, presented as an album, with the photographs reproduced at the center of each page. All of the photographs appear in book form for the very first time. Her celebrated fashion photography is paired with an evocative landscape photograph. In some of the most beautiful pairings, the fashion model wearing haute couture is photographed in the landscape, and the latter is then photographed again (sans model) from a different angle. In others, the model appears in both the fashion and landscape photographs. "Sensuous and romantic, imbued with the cool, watery softness of late-afternoon light moon, her pictures have transformed the image of femininity. Many of her photographs are created around intensely personal scenarios, which she refines into taut compositions, recalling stills from silent movies. Her eye tends to catch at tiny visual ideas: The arc of a hip, the glint of skin, the modulations of light and shadow" (Robert Delpire). Why "Unlikeness"? "I've often envied those who photograph life. I photograph illusion, evanescence, unlikeness, beauty. I start from nothing. I make up a story, which is left untold. I imagine a situation, which doesn't exist. I wipe out a space to invent another. I render the unreal" (Sarah Moon). An absolute "must-have" title for Sarah Moon collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in blue ink-pen on the half-title page by the artist/photographer: "To Bob Richardson, My unlikeness, my admiration, and all my very best wishes, 25.9.92 in New York Sarah Moon". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is one of the greatest fashion photographers of the 20th century (also the father of Terry). His ground-breaking work is indeed unlike, the exact opposite, of Sarah Moon's. This title is an art photography classic. This is the best such signed and inscribed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (wear on DJ spine and corners) is still in especially fine condition: Every internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 81 plates. Winner of The Grand Prize of the Bologna International Book Fair in 1983 for "Little Red Riding Hood", the only photographer ever to win the award. One of the finest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SARAH MOON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 2851070061.

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