HERB RITTS: L. A. STYLE

Martineau, Paul & James Crump; Herb Ritts

ISBN 10: 1606061003 / ISBN 13: 9781606061008

Published by The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2012

About this Item

4to, 206 pp, near fine in VG+ dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with over 150 full-page duotone plates, some color.

Seller Inventory # 12770

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HERB RITTS: L. A. STYLE
• Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606061003
• ISBN 13: 9781606061008
• Binding: Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
• Condition: Near Fine/Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

A seductive collection of portraits and nudes from the famed fashion photographer.

Herb Ritts: L.A. Style traces the life and career of the iconic photographer through a compelling selection of renowned, as well as previously unpublished, photographs and two insightful essays. Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for distinctive images of fashion models, nudes, and celebrity portraits. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts was sought out by leading fashion designers such as Armani, Gianfranco Ferrč, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Valentino, and Versace, as well as magazine editors from GQ, Interview, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair, among others, to lend glamour to their products and layouts.

Largely self-taught, Ritts developed his own style, one that often made use of the California light and landscape and helped to separate his work from his New York-based peers. From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in 2002, Ritts’s ability to create photographs that successfully bridged the gap between art and commerce was not only a testament to the power of his imagination and technical skill, but also marked the synergistic union between art, popular culture, and business that followed in the wake of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

About the Author

Paul Martineau is curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is the author of Rodney Smith (Getty, 2023), Imogen Cunningham (Getty, 2020), and Icons of Style (Getty, 2018).

James Crump is chief curator and curator of photography at the Cincinnati Art Museum. In 2007, Crump wrote, produced, and directed the documentary film Black White + Gray, featuring the influential curator and collector Sam Wagstaff and artist Robert Mapplethorpe.