Parker Day’s photography project “Icons” is a collection of portraits of d.j.s, models, club kids, and other night-life denizens.
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Parker Day grew up hanging around her father’s comic-book shop, in San Jose. There were certain shelves, the ones with explicit comics by the likes of R. Crumb, that she was not allowed to browse, so she would dream up her own stories inspired by the covers of the forbidden works. More recently, after returning to photography—a subject she studied in school but gave up when she became a hairdresser and then a night-life promoter—she fell into a similar habit.
Day’s ongoing project “Icons,” a collection of portraits of d.j.s, models, club kids, and other night-life denizens and creative types, grew out of this longstanding interest in inventing characters. Her subjects tend to possess a baseline of conspicuous personal style , but together with Day they embellish their looks to create someone new. To come up with the first portrait in the series, for instance, Day asked her subject if there was a specific character she wanted to inhabit.
To complete “Icons,” Day plans to collect a total of a hundred photographs. This summer, she flew to New York to shoot a new batch of people, a selection of whom are featured here. She worked away from her extensive costume racks and prop stashes this time, so her subjects needed mostly to style themselves. Still, it was hard to resist bringing along some accouterments. When I spoke to Day recently by phone, she was finishing an order on Amazon: a prairie-girl costume, a sickle, finger puppets.
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