• Book in hand: how does it feel? Smell, sniff the paper.

The book has a sort of musty smell, almost mirroring the contents and obvious context thats being portrayed in the book. Initially, the book is weighty in hand, considering the average amount of pages it possesses

• Paper and ink: use of different paper/ textures/ colour or B&W or both.

Throughout the book medium to heavyweight paper is used, probably around 100 – 110 grams, and there is no change in this. It creates some form of structure, unlike the the book where the time frame of images jump from 1998 to 1995. Most, if not all, images are shot in coloured film with the majority having a slight cold colour undertone – perhaps it was the type of film used, perhaps she edited them or maybe it was the the surroundings fault that cause this to occur.

• Format, size and orientation: portraiture/ landscape/square/ A5, A4, A3 / number of pages.

The book is roughly A4 and portrait, although most images inside are landscape. It consists of 112 pages, with images both on the left and right hand side with handwritten subtexts and dates – very brief but effective.

• Binding, soft/hard cover. image wrap/dust jacket. saddle stitch/swiss binding/ Japanese stab-binding/ leperello

case binding has been used, with around 2 dozen signets being bound together and combined with the hardback cover.

• Cover: linen/ card. graphic/ printed image. embossed/ debossed. letterpress/ silkscreen/hot-stamping.

On the front of the hardback cover there is a solitary image bang in the middle, a portrait of Tara St Hill, an upcoming model at the time and who is the main feature in this photo book. Below the photograph there are handwritten words that write, “Corinne Day Diary”, which is the title. Although the text is handwritten, it has obviously been scanned onto a computer and been inserted digitally. This happens to be the same on the back of the book where she has written a short message predominantly directed towards her close friends, and signed it off with her name. Her handwriting is also prevalent on the back inside page where she has written a thank you, who it was edited by and the copyright and publishing text that goes along with any book that is published. In a way, Tara using her handwriting to write seemingly unimportant things such as copyright information could be seen as comical, but mostly it made me feel like I was almost snooping at her most private of creations. This creates a bond with the viewer from the very beginning

• Title: literal or poetic / relevant or intriguing.

Whilst the title is pretty relevant and obvious, “Corinne Day Diary”, the context of the book is soaked with an unconstrained aura of a poetic nature. There is no beating around the bush when it comes to the context of this book, as all images look unedited and somewhat candid, but at the same time Day manages to incorporate

• Narrative: what is the story/ subject-matter. How is it told?

No doubt there is a narrative to this book, but it does not follow in the order of events which occurred. Day had given the impression of making her own narrative out of a group of photographs taken between 1990 and 1999. There is no linear sequence to these group of photos: they simply jump time frames on almost every page.