Catherine Corman's book of photographs, Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City, was exhibited at the 2009 Venice Biennale and is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Library. She is also the editor of Joseph Cornell's Dreams. Her short film Les Non-Dupes screened at the 2012 Berlin Biennale.

Her work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement and Vogue Italia, and on the websites of The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The Economist.

Educated at Harvard and Oxford universities, she lives in New York City.