Herb Ritts (FONDATION CARTI)

About this book

Herb Ritts is one of the most notorious and successful photographers working today. The Los Angeles-based imagemaker has created portfolios for Vogue Vanity Fair and other magazines done movie ads and music videos and worked with fashion-world clients such as Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani. This sumptuous catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain in Paris includes an interview with Herb Ritts. One hundred photographs some previously unpublished exemplify the rigorous disconcerting work of one of the most remarkable photographers of the contemporary art fashion and entertainment worlds. Herb Rittss subjects include Antonio Banderas Sandra Bernhard Louise Bourgeois Charles Bukowski William S. Burroughs Francesco Clemente Joseph Fiennes Dizzy Gillespie Mel Gibson Keith Haring Stephen Hawking Michael Jordan Jackie Joyner-Kersee B. B. King Roy Lichtenstein Ewan MacGregor Nelson Mandela Edward Norton Robert Rauschenberg Christopher Reeve and Tina Turner. 94 duotone photographs.