Corinne Day
[Photographer, b. 1962, Ealing, West London, d. 2010, Denham, England.]
I must be [an artist]. My pictures are in an art gallery.
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Photography is getting as close as you can to real life, showing us things we don’t normally see. These are people’s most intimate moments, and sometimes intimacy is sad.
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I always thought [my models] looked best when they were sitting in their pajamas smoking pot and getting pissed on a bottle of wine. So that’s what I documented. I liked the girls looking how they were naturally…
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[My brain tumor] was like a bungee jump into hell, like falling and falling forever. It was terrifying, I gave Mark my camera, and told him, “Photograph everything.”
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The ‘grunge look’, as my style was called, simply showed girls as they really are, without make-up, styled hair, flattering light.
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It’s all about freedom, really—and being proud of the holes in your jumper.
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I try to capture something from my subjects that’s real. It’s the eyes that tell that.
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The best thing I did for fashion was bringing it down to earth, bringing a documentary quality to it.
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