Photographer who discovered Croydon supermodel Kate Moss dies aged 48 (From Croydon Guardian)

Photographer who discovered Croydon supermodel Kate Moss dies aged 48

7:40am Sunday 5th September 2010 in

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Corrine Day, the fashion photographer credited with discovering Croydon supermodel Kate Moss, has died aged 48 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.

The photographer and her muse became inseperable after she first shot the 16-year-old for Face magazine in 1990.

But she received a media backlash for a series of pictures of the model taken three years later for Vogue, which prompted the heroin-chic movement of fashion stars looking gaunt and skinny.

The photographer, a former model herself, was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumour in August 2009, with Miss Moss and others raising more than £100,000 for special treatment by selling photographic prints.

She had been gravely ill since returning to Britain in February after chemotherapy treatment in the USA, and died from complications related to the tumour on August 27.