Herb Ritts: Work - Hardcover

This retrospective presents the full range of photographer Ritts' work, with 240 signature images, many published for the first time. There are portraits of Hollywood stars, (Pfeiffer, Cruise, Loren) notable artists, (Hockney, Haring, Martin) and world leaders, (Reagan, Mandela, Gorbachev), alongside fashion shots, erotic nudes and African scenery. Appreciations by contemporary art experts and chroniclers of fashion put the work in context.

Herb Ritts is in the top echelon of celebrity and fashion photographers today. His previous titles include Pictures, Notorious (Bulfinch, 1992), Men/Women, Duo, and award-winning Africa (Bulfinch, 1994). He lives in Los Angeles. Malcolm Rogers is the Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Trevor Fairbrother is the Beal Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ingrid Sischy is a noted writer on contemporary art and fashion and is Editor-in-Chief at Interview magazine. Richard Martin is the curator of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Steven Meisel is a prominent fashion photographer whose images have appeared in major magazines worldwide.