HISTORY - She was born Feb 19, 1962 and Died in 2010 on August 27th from a drug overdose. Corinne Day grew up in Ickenham with her younger brother and her grandparents. She left school aged sixteen and worked as an assistant in a local bank. After a year at the bank she became an international mail courier. It was during this period that someone suggested she try modelling – she worked consistently as a catalogue model for several years. In 1985 she met Mark Szaszy on a train in Tokyo – Szaszy was a male model and had a keen interest in film and photography. During an extended trip to Hong Kong and Thailand, Szaszy taught Day how to use a camera and in 1987 they moved to Milan. It was in Milan that Day's career as a fashion photographer started. Having produced photographs of Szaszy and her friends for their modelling portfolios, Day began approaching magazines for work.
BIOGRAPHY (Found on her Website) - Corinne Day is a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s has 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 known for forming long and close relationships with many of her sitters (most famously Kate Moss), which have resulted in candid and intimate portraits. 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.
In 1993 Day photographed Kate Moss in her own flat for British Vogue. In the context of a fashion magazine the images appear to have a documentary feel about them and when published caused a certain frisson of discomfort.
For the following seven years Day spent much of her personal time taking photographs for her first book, Diary (Kruse Verlag, 2000), an intensely personal visual record of her life and friends. It is by turns both bleak and dispearing but it is also a tender, poetic and honest chronicle of young lives.
Corinne Day continues to take photographs for fashion magazines. She is regularly commissioned by British, Italian and Japanese Vogue. Days work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery, The Science Museum, The design Museum, Photographers Gallery, Gimpel Fils London and included in The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum NY.
Kate Moss
Day decided to photograph Kate Moss, a famous beauty model who work for a range of companies. She even has her own line of lipsticks with Rimmel London.
This image is very powerful with the connotations associated. We see a celebrity known as Kate Moss in minimal clothing surrounded by lights. The connotations of this image say that the celebrity is constantly in the spotlight and can't escape from it. This image brings to perspective how the celebrity may feel; Trapped and unable to escape from the fame. This image may bring a reality to the audience about fame and that it isn't all positive. 
This next image is again of younger Kate Moss. She is shirtless and has a happy facial expression. This image is a very strong and meaningful image as to the media, it could be classed as inappropriate because it features a shirtless woman. I believe that Day is trying to express the ideas os gender roles and stereotyping within this image. Usually a woman can't be seen shirtless in public is seen as morally wrong. However, men can be. Therefore this image is challenging this moral and promoting gender equality.
This final image is an image of nine different images that portray different facial expressions. Audience members could interpret these facial expressions in different ways. I believe that this image was created throughout a conversation with Kate moss. Her face was captured at nine different moments and this created a range of different facial expressions and emotions throughout a conversation. It's an image that simply tells a story.
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