CORINNE DAY:
Corinne Day was born in 1965 and has just recently died in 2010; she was born in Ealing west of London where she was raised by her grandmother. Corinne’s interest in photography started at a young age as she is said to have spent a lot of her in a Woolworths photo both with her friend. She started off as a fashion photographer producing photos which contradicted the conception of what fashion photography was. Her photographs of Kate Moss made her famous as they had aroused a public outcry about the way Kate was depicted. Her photographs are said to be artless therefore pioneered the concept of ‘grunge’ fashion photography and it is the artlessness of her photographs that turned them into art. Her style of photography fits the pre-requisite for intimate photography as her pictures are of intimate moment in her personal life and her friends lives and her willingness to do this she presented vulnerable and intimate moments which foregrounded the intensity of human emotion. An example of a purely expressive photograph is the one she took of Tara while she was crying. (See fig 1 below) This photograph was taken in 1999 and it truly depicts an intimate moment between two friends it fits under the concept of intimate life as it shows an unexpected moment in everyday life and this you can see in the way the picture was taken, the composition is not balance and the positioning of the camera is not straight. In year 2000 she published a book Diary which is said to be a poetic and honest record of her friends and her life while she was sick, her photographs were a documentation of her life an the intimate relationships she had with her friend and her family. In another one of her photos of Kate she is able to capture the rawness of emotion of her subject: (see fig 2 below) in this photograph Kate has no make up on and though she is looking directly at the camera she is truly expressive and her direct look toward the viewer has a documentary element to it as it is capturing a true intimate moment between a photographer and her subject. As a self thought photographer Corinne was enabled to greatly influence the way images were made both in fashion photography and intimate life photography.
Corinne Day was born in 1965 and has just recently died in 2010; she was born in Ealing west of London where she was raised by her grandmother. Corinne’s interest in photography started at a young age as she is said to have spent a lot of her in a Woolworths photo both with her friend. She started off as a fashion photographer producing photos which contradicted the conception of what fashion photography was. Her photographs of Kate Moss made her famous as they had aroused a public outcry about the way Kate was depicted. Her photographs are said to be artless therefore pioneered the concept of ‘grunge’ fashion photography and it is the artlessness of her photographs that turned them into art. Her style of photography fits the pre-requisite for intimate photography as her pictures are of intimate moment in her personal life and her friends lives and her willingness to do this she presented vulnerable and intimate moments which foregrounded the intensity of human emotion. An example of a purely expressive photograph is the one she took of Tara while she was crying. (See fig 1 below) This photograph was taken in 1999 and it truly depicts an intimate moment between two friends it fits under the concept of intimate life as it shows an unexpected moment in everyday life and this you can see in the way the picture was taken, the composition is not balance and the positioning of the camera is not straight. In year 2000 she published a book Diary which is said to be a poetic and honest record of her friends and her life while she was sick, her photographs were a documentation of her life an the intimate relationships she had with her friend and her family. In another one of her photos of Kate she is able to capture the rawness of emotion of her subject: (see fig 2 below) in this photograph Kate has no make up on and though she is looking directly at the camera she is truly expressive and her direct look toward the viewer has a documentary element to it as it is capturing a true intimate moment between a photographer and her subject. As a self thought photographer Corinne was enabled to greatly influence the way images were made both in fashion photography and intimate life photography.
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