PHOTOS: See Kate Moss Like You’ve Never Seen Her Before

by Verena von Pfetten | 10:03 am, August 24th, 2011

Corinne Day, the photographer credited with discovering Kate Moss, passed away just under a year ago today. And in honor of her career, the Gimpel Fils gallery in London is putting on a retrospective of her work, featuring some of her most iconic images as well as a host of unpublished photos. Nowness has a sampling, which includes three never-before-seen pictures of a young Moss as Corinne then saw her.

Nowness also spoke to Phil Bicker, the art director who first commissioned Day to shoot Moss for iconic glossy The Face in 1990. Here’s what he had to say about their relationship and these photos:

Basically, Kate was Corinne—she was the perfect muse. Corinne had been a model and she saw herself in Kate. She worked with Kate to realize things she hadn’t realized about herself, and molded Kate into something that was actually a reflection of her. In those early days with Kate, the pictures were almost like the days of innocence—in a way it became a lot more contrived later on. The early pictures are the best.

They are indeed.

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