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Sarah (1941). French photographer. Her real name is Marielle Hadengue. Until the early 1970s, she was known for her very personal style, consisting of combinations of lights and shadows, grainy images, intense sepia exposures that recall the Impressionists, as well as spontaneous visions (a rotating peacock, a girl dressed as Little Red Riding Hood in front of a mysterious backdrop set up on the road), and strong echoes of Surrealism. In this context, her settings are of interest, which allude to fashion rather than describing it directly, and her alternating use of black-and-white and color. She took up photography in 1968 when she packed in modeling. First she worked for Cacharel and Condé Nast, and than as a freelance producing her own images using a soft-focus technique. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Time, Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Stern, Votre Beauté, Graphics, Marie Claire, and Nova. She has had numerous exhibitions across the world and received important prizes such as the Dada Award in 1972 for fashion photography and the Grand Prix de Cannes in 1979 for the Cacharel advertising campaign. Her many books include Coincidences (2001). She has also made about fifty advertising films (she is currently working on a film project based on the life of her friend Lillian Bassman, the 82-year-old photographer and art director of Harper’s Bazaar) and photographed the Pirelli calendar for 1972. She lives with her husband, Robert Del Pire, a critic and editor, in Paris.