Corinne Day was a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s had been immense. As a self taught photographer, Day brought a more hard edged documentary look to fashion image making, in which she often included biographical elements. Day is also known for forming a long and close relationship with Kate Moss, which have resulted in candid and intimate portraits.
My favorite work of her is Diary, 2002, which has nothing to do with the fashion industry but with her own everyday. The everyday that was not expected. A cruel autobiography. She said, “photography is getting as close as you can to real life, showing us things we don't normally see. These are people's most intimate moments, and sometimes intimacy is sad”.
The Diary represents 10 years of her life of which she kept an intermittent photographic diary of friends, family, experiences and places she had been. It was a deeply personal rendition of her life and a perfect example of how a real life document responds to the world. It is that value that the art world of the actual real has in contradiction with the non-real which matters, and that is why Day was so successful even after her suicide.
Fashion editor Belinda White said, "Corinne opened the door for a whole generation of photographers, designers, models and stylists who suddenly saw that the fashion industry didn’t have to be this exclusive club for the privileged and perfect."
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