Photographer. Known for her fashion work, she founded a genre called variously “grunge”, “heroin chic”, or “dirty realism”, and was instrumental in launching the career of Kate Moss. Raised in Ickenham, she quit school at 16 and worked in a bank before becoming a model. While enjoying some success in Australia, Japan, and America, she was given a camera by her future husband Mark Szasay. Initially she simply took pictures of her fellow models when they were off duty, but in 1990 her work came to the attention of the art director of “The Face” magazine. Hired for a photo shoot, she chose as her subject the then-unknown 16 year-old Kate Moss; Corinne’s “Summer of Love” cover and layout of a semi-attired Kate brought notice to both, though some charged that the pictures were pornographic, or that they “glorified” anorexia and drug use. A 1993 pictorial for “Vogue” showing Kate in mis-matched underwear caused even more controversy and resulted in Corinne leaving the fashion market for several years. Ill with a malignant brain tumor from 1996 on, she continued working until her final months, and contributed to the British, Italian, and Japanese editions of “Vogue”. Her work has been shown in several museums including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern, and the Gimpel Fils. Of her work, she said: “Photography is getting as close as you can to real life, showing us things we don’t normally see. These are people’s most intimate moments, and sometimes intimacy is sad”. (bio by: Bob Hufford)