Herb Ritts Quotes
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.
Ritts, Herb. Interview by François Quintin. Herb Ritts, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 1999.
He was a great football and track & field star. When he was in college, he had played baseball during the summer recess and was paid $2 a game, a common practice for college athletes who played baseball under an assumed name. Thorpe’s school had no athletes who had done that before, and his experience with formal rules was very limited. There was no one at the Carlyle Indian School who could advise him. Later, that technicality was used to strip him of his amateur titles and medals. Despite that, he was voted as the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
Herbert Ritts Jr. was an American fashion photographer and director known for his photographs of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture, which emphasized the human shape.
