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Historical heroines: Corinne Day & the search for reality

India Birgitta Jarvis

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November 2023

The tropes of realism in contemporary fashion photography can largely be credited to having come from the aesthetic signatures of the late Corinne Day, whose work in the 1990s signalled a new direction for image making. All these years later, we’re still under her spell.

Historical heroines Corinne Day | India Birgitta Jarvis | Darklight Digital

Kate Moss, from ‘Underexposed’, British Vogue [1993]

The tropes of realism in contemporary fashion photography can largely be credited to having come from the aesthetic signatures of the late Corinne Day, whose work in the 1990s signalled a new direction for image making. All these years later, we’re still under her spell.