• German photographer Peter Lindbergh, U.S. actress Uma Thurman (center) and British actress Helen Mirren pose during the presentation of the 2017 Pirelli calendar in Paris. Lindbergh, the German photographer credited with launching the careers of supermodels such as Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, has died aged 74, his family told AFP on Wednesday. | AFP-JIJI
    German photographer Peter Lindbergh, U.S. actress Uma Thurman (center) and British actress Helen Mirren pose during the presentation of the 2017 Pirelli calendar in Paris. Lindbergh, the German photographer credited with launching the careers of supermodels such as Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, has died aged 74, his family told AFP on Wednesday. | AFP-JIJI

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BERLIN – German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, credited with inventing the concept of the supermodel in the 1980s, has died aged 74, a message on his Instagram account said on Wednesday.

Born in 1944 in German-occupied Poland, he is seen as the creator of a style of naturalistic fashion photography that showed women without heavy makeup and is known for famous images of Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington.

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