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Title: Herb Ritts by Herb Ritts, Patrick Roegiers ISBN: 0-500-97489-6 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect entry-point
Comment: I remember some years ago spending hours looking through Herb Ritts:Work in a bookstore, wisjing I could afford it. I still can't afford that book, but decided to buy this book instead. I am very glad I did. This is a beautiful book, with every picture presented in rich black/white. I also found the interview with Herb Ritts fascinating, as I can't remember having read an interview with him before. As for the images; They are simply perfect. Favourites images: Bruce Springsteen, and Anjelica Houston
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful coffee table book & conversation piece
Comment: I received this book as a gift. I can't tell you how many times at a party or get-together at our home someone has picked this up, and then it has become the topic of conversation. The book gets passed around the entire night because everyone wants to look at it, and once someone starts flipping through the pages they simply can't put it down because they want to look at every image. Several of the photos are of celebrities, but they are somewhat disguised. Example: Cindy Crawford made up as a man. It is fun to do a "double take" as you try to guess who some of the subjects are. As always, Herb Ritts' images are masterpieces. This was a wonderful gift.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Mixed Bag of Photographs
Comment: This catalogue of the retrospective of Ritts' work in the mid 90's at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by its very nature has a lot of photographs that are included in previous volumes: many of the nudes, the African photos, the series called Duo and "celebrity portraits." Unlike many celebrity photographers, Ritts was able to create photographs that rarely if ever are duplicates of either his or other artists' work. You get a good sense of that from looking at all of the small copies of all the photos published at the end of this volume. That is no small accomplishment. Many of the nudes and/or erotic photographs have been around for so long and reproduced so often that they have almost become cliches. For example, the series of "Fred With Tires." These show up in calendars, refrigerator magnets, posters ad nauseam. The nine photographs of Bill T. Jones, one of which graces the cover of this hefty volume, should be called "Eunuch, I-IX." The poor man has been castrated by the stroke of an airbrush. I assume we are politically rather than anatomically correct here. This show was clearly no repetition of the Mapplethorpe Exhibit in Cincinnati!
Celebrity photographs are often just that. They are interesting only if you know the model. A fine portrait photographer can shoot someone we do not know and make that person interesting to us. Many though certainly not all of Ritts' photos rise to that level. For that reason, he will always be revered as an artist. I would put the photos of Whoopi Goldberg, William Burroughs and Mike Ovitz in that category, to name three. Even if we did not know who these people are, Ritts makes us want to know them. Proof of this, at least for me, is that I was mesmerized by the photo of Ovitz and didn't have the slightest idea initially of who he was. These photographs are intriguing and draw the viewer in. Finally, for my money, the three incomparable shots of Eunice Kennedy Shriver are simply the best portraits in the book. The first time I leafed through this volume, these fantastic shots jumped out at me.
I treasure my signed copy of another of Ritts' books. I'm sorry that he will never take another photograph.
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Title: Notorious by Herb Ritts ISBN: 0821219111 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 24 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: Patrick Demarchelier : Photographs by Patrick Demarchelier ISBN: 0821225146 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Mario Testino: Portraits by Mario Testino ISBN: 0821227610 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Hotel Lachapelle by David LaChapelle ISBN: 0821226363 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Photography: No particular order by Gilles Bensimon ISBN: 2850186783 Publisher: Filipacchi Publishing Pub. Date: 10 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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