She is credited with launching Kate Moss' career, she took the iconic shots of then teenager Moss, and will always be remembered for her ability to depict fashion images in a certain and real kind of way.
It is with sad news that we learn today of the self taught photographer's passing on 27 August. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2009, consequently raising 100,000 pounds to help pay for the treatment in an Arizona clinic. The sale of over 300 iconic Moss images was appropriately titled Save The Day.
What most people don't realise is that Day worked as a catalogue model before deciding on photography. "I don't have great cheekbones, or huge lips to pile lipstick on - it didn't suit me," she told the Observer in 2000. "I wasn't really a conventional beauty, I was quite plain-looking for a model. When I first saw Christy Turlington, all my hopes of ever getting on the cover of Vogue were gone."
With that kind of humour and a nurturing creative enthusiasm, she set about photographing other struggling students and landed a job at FACE magazine on her move to London.
Vogue UK reports that despite her success, Day grew disillusioned by commercialism - commenting that she "aspired to reportage". She began taking pictures for her first book, Diary, a bleak but honest look at her life and her friends - published in October 2000.
Her work and her courage will be remembered.
No comments:
Post a Comment