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CASE STUDY

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.

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My Pre`cis

CHAPTER 5: INTIMATE LIFE:

 This form of contemporary photography the images are subjective to the photographer’s personal environment and daily interactions and activities, the photographs are comprised of family, close friends and possibly spouses. This form of photography does not require any professional skill but they are the special events shared with those close to you and this could result in images filled with mistakes which might be a blurred image, finger prints on the lens or a skewed image. However it is with these mistakes that the artist is able to use the photograph to speak to the viewer. Nan Goldin’s photographs where what had set the trend for this type of photography and her work was subjected to the people she had relations with, her works were expressive and expressed feelings which she felt were important to her as these works were a record of her personal life. Nobuyoshi Araki used different camera to take the same image/photographs of the same subject and his photographs are a journal of his sexual life and desires as apparently he slept with some of the model which appear in his photographs. Larry Clark had works which were subjected to the teenage life of destruction, sex, and drugs. Juergen Teller started off as a fashion photographer and when he turned to art photography he turned the camera onto himself, he was in the position of looking at the camera and not looking through it, making his work maintain a sense of confrontation towards the viewer. Corinne Day also started out as a fashion photographer then casually moved onto art photography although here photographs were lacking a sense of artiness. In her photographs she displays her dysfunctional social life and they were of moments which were intimate in her life and between her and her friends which made her photographs emotionally deep narratives. Wolfgang Tillmans created photographs which built narrative which made them easy to read. This type of photography allows for a sense of artistic liberation as anything depicted in the photographs is subjected to how the artist views their subject and their interactions with their surroundings. The photographs are not only about the photographer’s and the subjects emotion but they are also are a navigation through the photographers’ life.

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