POP 683 Friday 2 September 2011
Today's POP is Ashley. Corinne Day, A Bigger Splash.
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I already wrote about Corinne at the time of her passing. But last night's opening at Gimpel Fils gallery was a joy, not least as it focuses almost exclusively on the photographer's work for THE FACE at a time that this magazine set the parameters of my universe, both professional and otherwise.
The Gimpel Fils gallery is one of the London art scene's unhyped treasures. Before Lisson, before Robert Fraser, there was Gimpel Fils. Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth showed there. So did Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton.
Now Corinne's golden era hangs on the Davies Street gallery's walls, with "on golden pond" to the right of the entrance and only better for not being crudely cropped as I recall we did at THE FACE way back then.
In the early Nineties nobody really did art book layouts. They did, however, send incredible, inventive young photographers to shoot bands in LA and give them the creative license to take their friends off to colourful locations in the name of 'the fashion shoot'.
The Chili Peppers pictures really stood out for me yesterday at Gimpel Fils. But I'll go back again, and I'd encourage anyone to take a good look at what Corinne Day achieved in just a few brief months through a mixture of ambition, naivety and a genius eye for a killer picture.
When Andy Weatherall saw THE FACE 'rock'n'roll' issue that contained Corinne's Red Hot Chili Peppers pictures, he told the then-editor Sheryl Garratt, "you know you got it, you actually captured something special there." He wasn't wrong. But for a brief time so many were spitting out little miracles.
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