Corinne Day - Photographer

[Tony Fersen]

So sad.

 

[BetteT]

Her biography ....
Source: nytimes.com

Corinne Day, Photographer of Kate Moss, Is Dead
By DOUGLAS MARTIN



Corinne Day, whose frank, unadorned photos of a teenage Kate Moss in the early 1990s helped inaugurate a new era of gritty realism in fashion photography that came to be called “grunge,” died Friday at her home in Denham, a village in Buckinghamshire, England.

Dafydd Jones/WireImage

Kate Moss, left, and Corinne Day at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2007.


The cause was a cancerous brain tumor, said her agent, Susan Babchick. According to her Web site, Ms. Day was 45, but public records indicate she was 48.

Ms. Day’s passion to record the most profound human experiences with a camera was never more evident than the day in 1996 when the tumor was discovered after she had collapsed in New York. She promptly asked her husband to shoot pictures of her, and they continued the project through her treatment and decline.

“Photography is getting as close as you can to real life,” she said, “showing us things we don’t normally see. These are people’s most intimate moments, and sometimes intimacy is sad.”

Ms. Day built her reputation on unrelenting visual honesty. She refused to airbrush the bags from under models’ eyes or de-emphasize their knobby knees. She eschewed pretty locations or even studios in favor of shooting people in their own environments.

It added up to a startling detour from the glossy world of supermodels — “subversion,” in Ms. Day’s own phrase.

There were two defining moments along the way, both involving Ms. Moss. The first was in 1990, when some of the first published fashion photographs of Ms. Moss, taken by Ms. Day, appeared in the British magazine The Face. One showed Ms. Moss topless; another suggested she was naked. She wore a mix of designer and secondhand clothes and no makeup over her freckles, and her expression was sincere. The photos seemed to usher in a new age of anti-fashion style. Artlessness became art. Some called it “grunge.”

The second moment, in 1993, was a shoot for British Vogue that featured a pale and skinny Ms. Moss in mismatched underwear. A public outcry ensued, as some claimed that Ms. Moss’s waifish figure seemed to imply she was suffering from an eating disorder or drug addiction.

On her agent’s advice, Ms. Moss stopped working with Ms. Day, with whom she had become close friends. Ms. Day said she was tired of taking fashion pictures, anyway.
“I think fashion magazines are horrible,” she said in an interview with the British newspaper The Observer in 1995. “They’re stale and they say the same thing year in and year out.”

The grunge aesthetic took hold for several years in designer imagery of the 1990s, most visibly in Calvin Klein’s influential fragrance and jeans campaigns, and also in street fashion, with the throwaway style of flannel shirts and distressed jeans, as popularized by Kurt Cobain and the burgeoning Seattle music scene.

Ms. Day eventually took fashion photos again, including ones of Ms. Moss that are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. But her aspiration was to document the lives of the people she knew best, and her “Diary,” published in 2000, told visual stories, including those of a single mother struggling to survive.

Corinne Day was born in Ealing, a town in west London. She said that her mother had run a brothel and that her father had robbed banks. They divorced when she was 5, and her grandmother raised her. As a girl, she said, she liked to spend hours in the photo booth at Woolworth’s with her friends.

Ms. Day left school at 16, worked briefly as a trainee in a bank, then flew around the world as an airline courier. A photographer she met on a plane suggested that she take up modeling, and she did, for Guess Jeans.

In Japan she met a filmmaker, Mark Szaszy, who taught her to use a camera — they would later marry — and she began taking pictures of the drab private lives of her fellow models, who seemed so glamorous in public.

“There was a lot of sadness,” she said in an interview with The Guardian in 2000. “We couldn’t buy the clothes we were photographed in, couldn’t go out and do the things we would have liked to do as teenagers.”

She took her work to the art director at The Face, who asked her to shoot some fashion pictures. She prowled the modeling agencies with a Polaroid and found Ms. Moss, whom she likened to “the girl next door.” They lived, worked and prospered together for three years.

“Corinne’s pictures, you might say, made Kate, and Kate made Corinne’s reputation,” The Evening Standard said in 2007.

Ms. Day is survived by her husband as well as her parents and two brothers.
Even at the height of her celebrity, in 1993, Ms. Day told The Guardian that her personal sartorial goal was to look “unstyled.” “I don’t take fashion too seriously,” she said.

 

[BetteT]

We are stating a R.I.P thread: Please post your comments and condolances there. http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f7...tographer-kate-moss-110835-2.html#post7817259

This thread will be reopened after the condolances have been given and you will be able to resume posting her work here.

 

[justaguy]

Very sad news. Her artistry will be missed.

 

[softgrey]

very sad news...
rip ms day...

 

[afterrhours]

i love her work so much and always will.
rest in peace

 

[DolceV]

I was reading about Corinne's illness just a few days before she had passed away, and then came the sad news. RIP Corinne.

 

[kasper!]

Remembering Photographer Corinne Day

by Cathy Horyn

Whenever I looked at a picture of Kate Moss I thought of Corinne Day, who died last Friday at her home in England. The two women, model and photographer, were linked long past Ms. Day’s first pictures in the early ’90s of the teenage Ms. Moss, and I suppose that is inevitable when a truth is revealed.
The plain, unaffected beauty that Ms. Day and other photographers captured was nowhere to be found in glossy fashion magazines or on the Paris or Milan runways. It was the era of aggressive sexuality, whether from Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler or Gianni Versace, and the young photographers and stylists who worked in London, usually for very little money, could not identify with that view of women. And they knew there was something else going on; they only had to look around them.
The style was called grunge, but it plainly real and very human. I loved hearing the stories about that time from Melanie Ward, and though I didn’t know Ms. Day, I always admired her work. Her pictures told us that she knew something about the lives of the models she photographed, that she empathized with them. That was one of Ms. Day’s secrets. Fashion itself is boring. But keep looking. And witness her curiosity and grace in some of the pictures she took in 2004 and 2005, in particular Gemma Ward at Glastonbury. They’re gorgeous.

source:nytimes.com

 

[made]

yes, very sad.
rest in peace.

 

[kasper!]

By Aimee Walleston

When I was nineteen, I assisted stylist Karl Plewka and was terrible at it. I didn’t know any better, and thought photo shoots were group opportunities for everyone to make their own pictures, so I shot everyone with my Polaroid camera and got into trouble. Afterward, Karl, who worked often with Corinne Day, looked at my pictures and said, “Well, these are nice: you shoot like Corinne.” Being compared, however offhandedly, to one of my heroes gave me so much confidence. It made me feel that my creativity had a purpose and wasn’t just the side effect of being a strange and insecure person. Day was someone who challenged not just the glossy flawlessness of ‘80s fashion photography, but also the idea that a fashion photograph is better when crafted by a male photographer. Resolutely in touch with the times she lived in–and what it meant to be a woman in front of a camera and behind one–Day had a point of view worth caring about, and she made people care about it, and her, and what her images said about the time they were made in. It takes courage to do that: when you are what you create artistically, continually showing it to the world is like letting everyone, friend or foe, have a little piece of you. Having your work published or exhibited is often more painful and embarrassing than it is glamorous, and it never feels quite like the compliment people imagine it to be. So it’s hard and really sad when the people who changed the way you look at things and who inspired your own creative life die young. I can’t imagine photography without the shift in perspective Day brought to it.

source:the last magazine

 

[HeatherZ]

RIP
so sad

 

[peppi]

THE FACE
May 2000

Do You Remeber The First Time?
Photographed by Sofia Coppola & Corine Day





scanned by GinAndTonic
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I never knew she was behind the Virgin Suicides posters and publicity shot, makes me love her even more..

Such a shame, RIP ​

 

[MissMagAddict]

source | scanned by MMA from UK Vogue January 2011

 

[VogueGirl8910]

Miu Miu Fall/Winter 94.95 (Ad Campaign)
Model: Rosemary Ferguson


community.livejournal.com/styleregistry

 

[ckgirlbr]

UK Vogue October 2007
GOLDEN YEARS
Model: Jessica Stam


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I'm not sure Jessica was the best model choice for this...But I love it

 

[rox_yr_sox]

the morning after the year before...
Photographer: Corinne Day
Model: Rosemary Ferguson





scans by rox_yr_sox

 

[Drusilla_]

Vogue UK June 2002, The Long Story

Fashion editor: Kate Phelan
Model: Gisele Bündchen
Hair: Neil Moodie
Makeup: Max Delorme

scanned by me (does anyone have tips for making better scans, I increased the resolution but they're still a bit grainy)

 

[Drusilla_]

...contd, Vogue UK June 2002, The Long Story

credits same as in the previous post.

 

[peppi]

I that editorial! Thanks for the scan!

 

[*ana*]

That's probably one of Gisele's best covers. I love how natural it looks, love the simplicity. It's the perfect way to shoot such a sexy dress.
Thanks for scanning Drusilla