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53. Corinne Day
British, 1962-2010
Kate, 1990 Gelatin silver print. 49 x 33.5 cm (19 1⁄4 x 13 1⁄4 in.) Signed, dated ‘1994’ and inscribed ‘Edette Happy Birthday Love Corinne XXX’ in ink on the verso. This is a rare vintage print. Estimate £5,000-7,000 $7,600-10,600 €6,800-9,500 ‡ z Provenance Gifted from the artist to Edie (Edette) Ure, friend and colleague, in 1994 Literature The Face, July 1990, Issue 22, ‘The 3rd Summer of Love’, for a variant
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Pioneering a documentary approach to fashion photography, Corinne Day cast the then unknown 15-year-old Kate Moss for the now iconic issue of The Face and photographed her on a beach at Camber Sands in East Sussex. Day’s candid and intimate images of a freshfaced ingénue provided an antidote to the glitzy excess of the supermodel era. “I was just having a laugh,” Kate Moss recalls, “Corinne just wanted to bring out everything that I hated when I was 15. My bow legs, the mole on my breast, the way I laughed.” This image was not exhibited nor made available as an edition until 2006. The present work is a rare vintage print, a gift from Day to a friend and colleague, and is slightly larger in size than the prints in the edition.
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