With these words Brian Molko introduced Nirvana’s cover ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐๐ฌ at the outstanding concert at Brixton Academy in London on September 28th, 2010.
➡️ https://bit.ly/2L2SWDV
A bit earlier, on September 1st, Placebo dedicated ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐จ๐๐๐ฒ๐ particularly to Corinne while playing at Un Palco In Collina Festival in Noci, Italy.
The video is of a bad quality but you can clearly hear Brian saying: “I’d like to dedicate this next song to Corinne Day. Thank you.”
➡️ https://bit.ly/3lQHnMK
A heartfelt tribute to a world famous photographer - and a friend, since the early days of Placebo. Then, it was only five days after she passed away aged only 48.
Do you know who she was?
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| Photo credit: Corinne Day |
✨๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ (1962 – 2010) was a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s and onwards has been immense. Self-taught, she became well-known for her raw, intimate and documentary-style images, which defined the 90s and specifically, the times of grunge culture.
✨Corinne Day worked on a photography for Placebo’s second album ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐’๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ and most of its singles: ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐.
๐ธ https://bit.ly/3qGA3Hx
๐ธ https://bit.ly/2VLkfFa
๐พ๐๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐-๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ขSarah and Sally, the twins on the cover, run a magazine called Blag, which started in the early 90s. So we’ve been in the same kind of circles since we moved to London around the age of 18. Over the years we’ve been meaning to connect and hang out and see how everyone’s doing and it just never happened. So [re-shooting the album cover] was the perfect opportunity to touch base and reminisce about Corinne Day, who shot the cover and is sadly now passed away. Sometimes it feels like you have to take the time to reconnect with events that are important for you, and this certainly was an important point in our lives and a little bit for them as well. […]
(๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ 2018)
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| Photo credit: Corinne Day |
✨๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ entered the fashion world by chance but ended up revolutionising it: she launched Kate Moss’ career and set a precedent for a new style of fashion photography.
▪️Born in London on February 19th, 1962, Corinne was raised by her grandmother and left home at 16. While living in Japan in 1985, she met an Australian guy in a subway, Mark Szaszy and they never separated since. He had a keen interest in film and photography and taught her to use the camera.
▪️Corinne started experimenting and photographing her friends, who were models, in their everyday lives. She crossed the line and captured what was behind the luxury and the glamour that shaped their jobs. She rather focused on their poor salaries: living in dumps, struggling to pay the rent, dirt, drugs, shabby clothes and scruffy styles. She said of that time that they lived “on bread and wine and spliffs.” Later, it would bring out a controversial term ‘๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐’ as a style in fashion industry.
▪️Corinne Day was neither interested in the commercial side of photography nor the artificiality. For her, it was all about honesty, realism, and putting a person in a center. She found beauty in anyone and any situation, everything could be interesting for her artistic creations.
▪️In November 1996, Corinne Day was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumour called oligoastrocytoma and had to undergo a brain surgery. The surgeon and oncologist gave her a prognosis of 8 years left to live, however Day outlived this prognosis by more than six years.
▪️Being ill, Corinne returned to fashion photography and was regularly commissioned by British, Italian and Japanese Vogue amongst many others. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery, The Science Museum, The Design Museum, The Photographers' Gallery, Gimpel Fils Gallery and was also included in The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York.
Corinne Day sadly passed away on August 27th, 2010.
(๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ : ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ.๐๐.๐ข๐; ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐)
Here you can watch a documentary about Corinne as part of Masters of Photography series.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ / ๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ ๐๐๐-๐๐จ๐๐จ - ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐ '๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ'
➡️ https://bit.ly/2JwOwVH
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| Photo credit: Corinne Day |
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