
I thought I had not heard of Corinne, but when I looked again, I realised I had seen her work before. The cover of Suede’s debut album, which features two androgynous figures kissing, is a Corinne photograph. She was also the author of the Cunt Coloring Book, a collection of drawings of female genitalia that became a minor feminist classic when it was first published in 1975. In 1981, the publisher changed its title to Labiaflowers, which caused sales to drop. The original title was eventually restored.
Another reason Corinne’s work feels so vibrant today is that, with its depictions of women who lived on the fringes, it captures a period of social history that has so often been forgotten. Flint argues that, in refusing to print her work, the printers contributed to the suppression of this history.
I've always loved her work. She had a way of capturing our lost women-only spaces that really captured how wonderful it was to feel that freedom.