PARIS — If Bill Cunningham is widely credited as the inventor of modern street-style photography, then Chris Moore is seen by many in the fashion industry as the godfather of the runway images shot and published today.

A small, bearded and bespectacled Englishman, Mr. Moore at 83 can still be seen wielding his camera at the front of the photographers’ pit during fashion weeks in New York, London, Paris and Milan. He still fights his way through the scrum of sharp elbows and big egos and stakes his territory, standing for hours waiting for his shots and lugging his equipment from venue to venue.