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Her work for The Face magazine in the early 1990s helped propel the career of a young Kate Moss. Her photographs introduced a new grunge aesthetic to fashion photography that was in stark contrast to the glamorous images that dominated the world of fashion in the 1980s. Day challenged the conventions of the time with her daring and provocative work and she was often accused of glamourising drug use and anorexia. Retreating away from the fashion world in the late 1990s, Day continued to work as a documentary photographer until her untimely death in 2010.\n\r\nThis photograph was taken from Day’s seven year long personal project <i>Diary</i>. Published in 200o, <i>Diary</i> is a bleak but honest look at Day’s life and friends.  Here, Day captures the model Georgina Cooper in an awkward and uncomfortable looking pose. As she kneels on the soiled carpet of a dingy looking room, we see that the soles of her feet are dirty. Rather than trying to glamorise the fashion scene, Day was more interested in showing its gritty side and the reality of the world in which she and her friends occupied.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Young woman in red underwear, rear view, leaning over a low, brown, arm chair, in a dingy room.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Day, Corinne","id":"A10071"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"AAT25687"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"AAT14109"},{"text":"","id":""}],"techniques":[{"text":"c-type","id":"THES258425"},{"text":"","id":""}],"materialsAndTechniques":"C-type print","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Fashion","id":"THES48957"},{"text":"Woman photographer","id":"THES380381"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2022NG7509","2006AN1272"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"EDUC","shelf":"14.1","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Brixton","id":"x36752"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1995","earliest":"1995-01-01","latest":"1995-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Copyright Corinne Day, courtesy Gimpel Fils","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"15.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"22.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Corinne Day made a distinctive contribution to fashion photography in the early 1990's. She was one of the pioneers of a style that is candid and hard-hitting. Day continues to work for style magazines such as Ray Gun, Dazed and Confused and Vogue Homme International. In contrast to the traditional and glamorous image which dominated fashion photography during the late 1980's, Day’s work represents a more informal, confrontational and confessional approach to the medium. She has used unconventional, and sometimes androgynous models to question the gender stereotyping found in the mainstream media and magazines.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Corinne Day, 'Georgina, Brixton', C-type print, 1995","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1997</u>"},{"reference":{"text":"Nickerson, Camilla and Wakefield, Neville. <u>Fashion: Photography of the Nineties</u>. 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