Corinne Day - Photographs London Thursday, November 5, 2015 | Phillips

Photographs

London Auction 6 November 2015 2pm

  • 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

  • Catalogue Essay

    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 fresh-faced 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.

Ultimate

53

Corinne Day

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 ‡♠

Sold for £13,750

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Lou Proud
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Photographs

London Auction 6 November 2015 2pm