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The photographer today is equipped with a unique photographic vision. Influenced by the great portrait photographers, visionaries and revolutionaries in the world of fashion, photographer organize it now working on developing a fantastic work, unlike many of his contemporaries, his pictures are better known than himself. Friends, today we meet one of the most important photographers of recent years: 52. Herb Ritts
Born in Los Angeles on August 13, 1952. Considered one of the best fashion photographers Americans, his work is characterized by its black and white portraits and his nudes, reminiscent organize it of the style of classical sculpture of Grace. organize it
Son of a wealthy family, Ritts was the largest of four brothers, and received education from their parents, Shirley and Herb Ritts interior designer father, owner of a furniture store. The Ritts lived in Beverly Hills and had a summer home for Santa Catalina Island. Young Ritts grew up in a glamorous neighborhood, taking in the most famous film stars as neighbors. In 1974 he qualified in economics at Bard College. After graduate returns to Los Angeles to work in the family business. While at the University informs its their homosexual parents, who always organize it supported.
Herb Ritts is a manufacturer of images, a photographer with an extraordinary photographic organize it vision that is capable, with a dose of imagination to translate the dreams and desires of our culture in memorable photographs. As a fashion and celebrity photographer Ritts is one of the artists who has managed to cover for Vogue, Vanity Fair or Rollig Stone. Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Gap and Giorgio Armani are some of its most important customers. Creator of movie trailers, music videos and advertisements, Ritts has also published several books together photographs around a particular topic. His images capture the beauty with strength, passion for the human body, the sun and the beaches of California, smile from ear to ear and torso tattooed organize it Jack Nicholson star Dennis Rodman basketball.
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Many of his famous photographs were created on their own initiative, others came from commercial work to be commissioned. Art, design, fashion organize it and media make up a complex culture that Ritts deals so brilliantly organize it in his artistic activity.
Ritter escape the atmosphere and its California to pursue his university studies in New York at Bard College, and graduated in Economics and Art History. Back in Los Angeles he became interested in photography and along with his best friend, Richard Gere, a young man who aspired to be an actor, he created his first photographs. Photos organize it to Gere and 1979 were a fluke or a premonition, the fact is that Gere got his role in Paul Schrader film, American Gigolo organize it ', 1980, and those pictures make it Richard Gere almost accidentally organize it to fixing a flat tire on a car service station they obir door to most American magazines. After a few months of his photographs were published in Vogue, Esquire, and Elle.
Ritts took photography seriously, and lived what looked liked and entered the world of Hollywood, organize it it had not cost much to portray the glamorous stars of the 80's. Brooke Shields photographed for the cover of the October 12, 1981 edition of Elle and Olivia Newton-John for her Physical album in 1981. Five years later he would make him a cover similar to Madonna for her 1986 album, True Blue. His relationship with Madonna had begun a few years earlier, in 1984, regarding the shooting of the film 'Looking for Susan desperately. " organize it
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