Video: Herb Ritts - favorite photographer of Hollywood stars
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
One chance meeting can become a turning point in the fate of a person. This is how, by chance meeting, Herb Ritz and Richard Gere changed each other's lives forever. Almost every one of us knows who Richard Gere, the conqueror of the Beauty's heart, is, but very few have heard of Herb Ritz. In fact, we have seen his work hundreds of times, but the people who got into the lens of this photographer are so popular that all the glory went to them. The Ritz lens owns many photographs and video clips of such famous artists as Madonna, Johnny Depp, Elizabeth Taylor, Scarlett Johansson, Cindy Crawford, and the list goes on and on.
Herb Ritts was born and raised in Los Angeles, graduated from the University of Economics, started working in his parents' furniture store, and suddenly became interested in photography. And so seriously that he signed up for evening photography courses, then offered his work to magazines, made connections, but his work was not very popular. Everything was changed by a chance meeting of Ritz with the aspiring actor Richard Gere, a young and so far unknown. The photographer noticed something interesting, special in the guy, and invited him to take some pictures. The young actor liked the editors of the magazines no less than the style in which the pictures were taken. It was these photographs that became for Richard Gere a pass to the world of the film industry, and Herb Ritz decided to seriously engage in photography.
Herb Ritz's photographs are characterized by simple lines, most of them in black and white. Also, critics find his works features inherent in classical Greek sculpture, and fans of the photographer's work say that they loved his pictures for their simplicity, emotionality and naturalness. It was Herb Ritz who persuaded Julia Roberts, Gere's star partner, to put on men's underwear for filming and climb into the icy water. He was the owner of some of the first photographs of Cindy Crawford and Mila Jovovich. Another extremely famous work of Ritz was a photograph that captured the moment of kissing Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder. The photographer was so subtly able to convey the feelings of the actors in the photograph that the fans had no doubts about the existence of a romantic connection between them.
The photographer worked not only in the art portrait genre, but also collaborated with famous magazines (Vogue, Elle …) and designers (Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein …), creating unique photo sessions. In 1991, Ritz established himself as a director, receiving the MTV Video Awards for his debut video for Janet Jackson. Probably, we would have seen more than one more work of this talented person, but in 2002 he died of complications after pneumonia.
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