Swan Moon's Swan Moon

Casebound hardcover with tipped-in chromogenic print132 pages, 76 plates7.6 x 10.5 in. / 193 x 260 mmAfterword by Chris Kraus2025ISBN 978-1-942953-78-4 Swan Moon's Swan Moon is a diaristic portrait of youth, identity, and performance set against the faded glamour of 1990s Los Angeles. Swan Moon revisits her teenage years as a Korean American growing up in the cultural shadow of Hollywood—where cinema’s myths loomed large and personal history blurred with fantasy. While alternative youth were raving and Larry Clark’s Kids was defining a generation, Moon and her friends were doing something profoundly divergent: dressing in vintage clothing, staging impromptu, cinematically adjacent environments, and living out an aesthetic that was wildly out of sync with the time. The work feels improvised, playful—shot with flea market props and makeshift lighting which carried with it an amateurish charm. Moon wasn’t imitating Cindy Sherman—she had yet to know that name let alone see the iconic Untit