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Herbert Ritts Jr. (August 13, 1952 – December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer and director known for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
I’m recording people. For me, a portrait is something from which you feel the person, their inner quality, what it is that makes them who they are. Sometimes people have trouble with the context of why a picture is taken. Whether you take it for Vogue or for the GAP or for yourself matters little to me.
Dec 27, 2002 · Herb Ritts, the photographer whose glorifying images of the well known helped to further mythologize celebrity in the 1980's and 90's, died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital.
'Sometimes you'll hit on something that will live on.’. An exclusive look inside the archives of a photographer whose sumptuous images of rock stars, supermodels and film legends encapsulated an era.
Aug 7, 2021 · Herb Ritts was one of the most respected and well-known celebrity and fashion photographers of the late 20th century. Despite a career that lasted only twenty-four years, Ritts was remarkably prolific.
Apr 3, 2012 · In the late 1970s, the mostly self-taught, Los Angeles–based photographer Herb Ritts stumbled upon success, after his impromptu images of his longtime friend Richard Gere—taken at a...
Remembering Donald Sutherland. From an early 1978 session of Herb photographing movie publicity for Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 20 years later, Herb photographed Sutherland, as artist Paul Gauguin, for the Oscar issue of Vanity Fair magazine @herbritts #herbrittsbackstory
Through hard work and a distinctive vision, Herb Ritts fashioned himself into one of the top photographers to emerge from the 1980s. Ritts's aesthetic incorporated facets of life in and around Los Angeles.
Apr 2, 2012 · Known for his classic and elegant images, fashion photographer Herb Ritts was able to capture the purity of his subjects without the fuss that clouds many fashion photographs. With a methodology...
Herb Ritts’ fashion photographs celebrated natural beauty incorporating his local Los Angeles environment. His pictures appeared in Vogue , Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and he worked with numerous designers including Calvin Klein, Chanel, and Ralph Lauren.
