A look at some of Peter Lindbergh's best photographs

The photographer captured plenty of famous faces, including Naomi Campbell, Emma Watson and, more recently, Greta Thunberg

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  A portrait of actress Julianne Moore taken for the 2017 Pirelli Calendar at the "Pirelli Calendar 2017 by Peter Lindbergh" exhibition in at Moscow 2017. Artyom Geodakyan, TASS via Getty Images

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  The cover of the September 2019 issue of British Vogue featured 15 famous women, plus an empty mirrored square to include the viewer. Shot by Lindbergh, the issue was guest edited by the Duchess of Sussex.

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  'A Different Vision On Fashion Photography' exhibition by Peter Lindbergh at Reggia di Venaria Reale in 2017 in Turin, Italy. Giorgio Perottino/Getty Images

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  A photograph of actress Lupita Nyong'o taken for the 2017 Pirelli Calendar on display at an "Pirelli Calendar 2017 by Peter Lindbergh" in Moscow 2017. Artyom Geodakyan\TASS via Getty Images

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  Anna Wintour's first ever cover as Editor of American Vogue, 1988 was shot by Peter Lindbergh, and featured a Christian Lacroix beaded cardigan with Guess jeans

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  Guests at the 'A Different Vision On Fashion Photography' exhibition by Peter Lindbergh Exhibition in Turin, Italy 2017. Giorgio Perottino/Getty Images

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  Peter Lindbergh shot the supermodels Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford for British Vogue 1990.

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  Visitors look at a 2003 photograph of Jeanne Mareau by Peter Lindbergh, at the exhibiton "On Street - Photographs and Film" 2010 in Berlin. Johannes Eiselle, AFP.

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  Dedicated to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, the July 2019 cover of German Vogue was shot by Peter Lindbergh

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  'A Different Vision On Fashion Photography' exhibition by Peter Lindbergh, 2017,Turin, Italy. Giorgio Perottino,Getty Images

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  When Lindbergh shot this cover of 19 year old Jade Jagger for the September 1990 issue of British Vogue, she was more famous for being Mick Jagger's daughter than for anything else.

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  An image of Keith Richards by photographer Peter Lindbergh at his exhibition in 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup, Getty Images

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  As guest editor for the April 2018 issue of Vogue Australia, Emma Watson also appeared on the cover, shot by Lindbergh

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  Professing to be bored by walking shots, for the October 2016 cover of Italian Vogue, Lindbergh had three models link arms and march down a New York street.

In a career spanning from 1978 to 2019, Peter Lindbergh shot some of the world's most famous models, for many of the world's biggest magazines titles.

Click through the gallery above to see some of Lindbergh's most celebrated images. 

He shot model turned-actress Amber Valletta in 1993, at the start of her career. Wearing feathered wings and a bathrobe, it is one of the most celebrated images of the model.

Lindbergh's stripped-back style 

Preferring stripped back imagery, he often had his models wear men's suits or plain white shirts. With no elaborate dresses to hide behind, his photographs became about the subjects. For this image, he shot models Estelle Lefebure, Karen Alexander, Rachel Williams, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz and Christy Turlington, in Santa Monica, 1988, and is credited for launching the careers of many of the original supermodels.

For the cover of British Vogue, March 1990, Lindbergh shot Helena Christensen with a white horse on a beach, wearing a simple white dress.

Lindbergh recently photographed the 15 cover stars for the Duchess of Sussex co-edited September issue of British Vogue, including climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.