For 20 years, everyone assumed Kate Moss was drunk on that staircase. Greg Brennan, who took the photo, says she was just waiting for a car home from a party

Kate Moss sits on a staircase in a fur coat, gripping a cigarette packet on the handrail as she looks down at her feet.

Every photographer who's ever put work in front of the public knows the feeling: you press the shutter, the picture goes out into the world and, from that point on, you have almost no control over what people decide it means.

Greg Brennan's new book, The Big Shot, published by ACC Art Books, is built around that exact dynamic.