Corinne Day

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Corinne Day ( February 19, 1962 - August 27, 2010 ) was a British fashion photographer , documentary photographer and model .

Earlier life

Corinne Day grew up in Ickenham with her younger brother and grandparents . She left school at sixteen and worked as an assistant in a local bank. After a year at the bank, she became an international postal courier. During this time, someone suggested that she try as a model. She worked as a catalog model for several years. In 1985 she met Mark Szaszy on a train in Tokyo . Szaszy was a male model and was very interested in film and photography. Szaszy Day taught how to use the camera during an extended trip to Hong Kong and Thailand and in 1987 they moved to Milan . Day began her career as a fashion photographer in Milan. After Day took photographs of Szaszy and her friends for her model portfolios, she began contacting magazines for work.

Career in fashion photography

In 1989, Day had her first meeting with Phil Bicker, the art director of The Face . Through Bicker, Day met the stylists Anna Cockburn and Melanie Ward, with whom she was to create some of her most famous pictures. Day's photos were best known for her July 1990 fashion editorial for The Face entitled The Third Summer of Love . The model for the Bicker commissioned and designed by Ward eight-page report was the then unknown Kate Moss . It presents clothing by Romeo Gigli, Joseph Tricot, Ralph Lauren and a feather headdress from the now defunct Covent Garden Boutique World. Taken during a day trip to Camber Sands, some of the photographs showed teenage Kate Moss half-naked and laughing on the beach. The photo of Kate Moss in the feather headdress on the cover of the magazine is one of Day's most iconic images today. Day previously worked with Kate Moss on Levi's "Levis for Girls" campaign with The Design Corporation.

Three years later, Day did another famous shoot with Moss, whose pictures became famous under the catchphrase of heroin chic . The scrawny Moss was portrayed stretched out in mismatched underwear. Day was accused of glossing over anorexia and drug use with the pictures , and the pornographic tendency of the pictures was also criticized. Kate Moss' agent then banned any further collaboration with Corinne Day. From the mid-1990s, Day often moved around the alternative rock band Pusherman . In 2000, she published many of the pictures taken during these years in her book Diary.

Day is considered a pioneer of grunge in photography. There is no trace of the thickly applied glamor of the 1980s in her pictures . She completely dispenses with the blurring and presents her motifs unadorned and directly in reality. Along with Wolfgang Tillmans, she is referred to as one of the founders of this “snapshot style”. Her pictures have been published regularly in the British, Italian and Japanese editions of Vogue . Her photos also appeared in Interview , Glamor , Mademoiselle and Allure . She worked for fashion labels such as Banana Republic and The Gap . Exhibitions of her work have taken place at the National Portrait Gallery , Victoria and Albert Museum , Tate Modern , Saatchi Gallery, and other museums.

Private

In November 1996, Day was diagnosed with a slowly growing brain tumor. After an operation in London, she was given a life expectancy of eight years. With the help of a fundraising campaign called "Safe the Day", she was given chemotherapy in 2009 , but Corinne Day died in August 2010.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Corinne Day: Tara . London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, 6 October to 18 November 2000
  • Corinne Day: 15th London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, February 21st to April 1st, 2006
  • Corinne Day: Diary . Paris, Galerie Gimpel-Muller, November 6th to December 8th, 2018
  • Shot in Soho. London, The Photographers Gallery, October 18, 2019 to February 9, 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kate Mikhail: Corinne Day. the guardian, September 22, 2002, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Corinne Day (obituary) . In: The Daily Telegraph . London 11th September 2010 ( corinneday.co.uk ).
  3. ^ Mary Warner Marien: Photography: A Cultural History . Laurence King Publishing, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-85669-493-3 , pp. 7–131 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Jan Gelman: All in a Day's work. In: New York Magazine . of February 22, 1993, p. 23
  5. ^ A b Corinne Day. The Corinne Day Estate, accessed December 9, 2019 .
  6. ^ Exhibitions. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Gimpel Fils | Corinne Day: Tara. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Gimpel Fils | Corinne Day: 15 / Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: The Class. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  9. ^ Corinne Day: Diary. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Shot In Soho. June 19, 2019, accessed December 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Day, Corinne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British fashion photographer, documentary photographer and model
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1962
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2010