Corrine Day
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Corrine day was a self taught photographer who brought a more hard edged documentary look to fashion image making, in which she often included biographical elements.
Her candid and intimate style portraits of people she was close with were published in her book, Diary, which contained over 100 photographs spanning a 10 year period.
The most notable of these being the photographs of Moss in the 3rd Summer of Love editorial for the FACE magazine in 1990. Days approach as illustrated within the lifestyle and fashion magazines of the 1990s, came to be known as grunge and grew into an international style, which, at times, which quite controversial; There were accusations that her promotion of so-called "heroin chic" encouraged anorexia among young girls and that the pictures were sexually provocative. Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, said the pictures were "just this side of porn"; while Marcelle D'Argy Smith, then editor of Cosmopolitan, declared: "The pictures are hideous and tragic. I believe they can only appeal to the paedophile market." Even President Clinton expressed reservations.
-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/7995220/Corinne-Day.html
Georgina at home, Rockmount estate SE18 1994, is one of my favourite images from her book, Diary. A lot of the images in the book are very personal and too explicit for what I had in mind and what I have access to. The tones of the image are very flat and the wide depth of field means that, as the viewer, you look at the photograph as a whole.
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