{"product_id":"swan-moon","title":"Swan Moon","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eSwan Moon, by Swan Moon,  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eis an intimate portrait of youth, identity, and performance against the faded glamour of 1990s Los Angeles. Swan Moon revisits her teenage years as a young Korean-American girl who grew up in the cultural shadow of Hollywood, where movie myths were omnipresent and her personal history was intertwined with fantasy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003c!--more--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eWhile the alternative youth movement was igniting and Larry Clark's film \"  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eKids\" was making waves \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eWhile it marked a generation, Moon and her friends were doing something profoundly different: they wore vintage clothes, staged improvised, cinematic environments, and lived an aesthetic completely out of step with their time. Their work, shot with secondhand props and makeshift lighting, exudes an impression of improvisation and whimsy, giving it an amateurish charm. Moon wasn't imitating Cindy Sherman—she didn't even know her name yet and had never seen the iconic  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003e\"Untitled Film Stills\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003e  —but she drew directly from the language of cinema, seeking to establish herself and her circle within the medium's canon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eThese photographs evoke the domestic intimacy of the mid-20th century—gestures borrowed from the 1950s and 60s—but subverted by the awareness and often heightened anxieties of the 1990s. Sexuality is present, but restrained, expressed with a tenderness that would soon disappear with the advent of the internet. There is humor, style, and a genuine whimsy that contrasts sharply with today's hyper-self-consciousness and image saturation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eConceived as a nod to Hollywood cinema,  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003eSwan Moon's book, Swan Moon,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan dir=\"auto\"\u003e  features a carefully curated soundtrack and a list of characters at the end. An afterword by acclaimed writer Chris Kraus illuminates and contextualizes this nostalgic ode Moon offers to an idealized Los Angeles—his vision of the city and its young inhabitants, both deeply personal and seemingly frozen in time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terranova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55473748312406,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8622\/4726\/files\/swan-moon-scaled.jpg?v=1790185323","url":"https:\/\/terrranova.com\/products\/swan-moon","provider":"Terranova","version":"1.0","type":"link"}