Bye Bye Corinne Day
Corinne Day: Pioneer of a new kind of beauty
Photographer Corinne Day, who has died aged 48, cast off glamour in favour of grubby naturalism — and discovered the model Kate Moss. Her style defined a generation
In the many obituary notices and tributes that marked her premature death at 48 from a brain tumour, Corinne Day was described repeatedly as the fashion photographer who discovered Kate Moss. For Day, one senses, that would have been the cruellest irony of all. Even in death, she could not shake off the label that, in her short and often turbulent life, she had struggled to transcend.”Corinne had a very ambivalent relationship with what she had achieved,” says photography curator and writer, Charlotte Cotton, “Nothing was straightforward for her, not the fashion world or the art world that she tentatively moved into in the 90s. She saw the inherent ridiculousness of both and instinctively reacted against it.”
