Corinne Day valuation
Photographed Kate Moss at fifteen and changed what a fashion picture was allowed to look like.
Corinne Day was born in 1962 and died in 2010, and her work is the hinge between fashion photography and documentary.
What a work by Corinne Day is worth
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Bio
Corinne Day was born in 1962 and died in 2010, and her work is the hinge between fashion photography and documentary. The 1990 shoot for The Face that introduced Kate Moss — unstyled, on a beach, unmistakably a teenager — was the beginning of a manner that was attacked at the time and became the defining look of the decade. Diary, published in 2000, turned the same unsparing attention on her own life and circle.
The market is photographic prints, and with an estate rather than a living artist the distinctions are sharper than usual: prints made in her lifetime, prints made since under the estate's authority, edition size, and whether a work is signed, stamped or unmarked all separate objects that look identical. Documentation from the estate or the representing gallery is the evidence and matters more here than for a living photographer. Condition follows the process, and colour work from the period is not always stable.
The Face, Vogue and Diary
Day's pictures of Kate Moss first appeared in The Face in July 1990, in an eight-page story called The Third Summer of Love, art-directed by Phil Bicker and styled by Melanie Ward. In 1993 British Vogue commissioned her to photograph Moss for its June issue, and the lingerie story that resulted, Under Exposed, shot in Moss's flat in west London, drew heavy criticism.
Diary was published by Kruse Verlag in 2000, and the National Portrait Gallery included her work in The Face of Fashion in 2007. Gimpel Fils in London showed her early pictures for The Face in 2011, the year after her death, and gallery and estate records are the reference for any print.
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