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Herb Ritts Biography

Herbert "Herb" Ritts Jr. (August 13, 1952 – December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer and director prolific for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture, which emphasized the human shape.

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I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Form, Like, Photographer, Shape, Shapes, Strength

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

Light, Ocean, Oceans, Photographs, Space, Texture

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Actually, Firsts, Parent, Parents, Photography, Working

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

Appreciative, Europe, Public, States, Thinking, United States

And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.

Facts, Parisian, People, Understanding

It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

Important, Let, Photography, Subjects

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Effects, Having, Keys, People, Thinking

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

Black And White, Generally, Lab, Labs, Luxury, Making

Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

California, Growing Up, Light, Sensitivity, Warmth

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

Desert, Elements, Light, Shadow, Two

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

American, Be Who You Are, Having, Liberty, Right, Sometimes

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

Fun, Growing Up, Impress, Stars, Steve, Time

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate.

Appreciate, Comforting, Corner, Given, Photograph, Rooms

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

Assignments, Feelings, Garage, Light, School

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

Business, Business Sense, Economics, Good, Good Business, Sense

I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.

Enemy, Fear, Gay, Knowing, Names, Thinking

Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.

Assignments, Clothes, Editorials, Saws, Time

To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

Achieve, Elements, Play, Things, Trying

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

California, Developed, Hygiene, New York, Scene, Way