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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL, EXTREMELY PERSONAL DEDICATION by Herb Ritts (1952-2000).

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Madonna, Prince, Karl Lagerfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julia Roberts, David Bowie, Cher, Elton John, Sean Connery, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Naomi Campbell, Michael Jackson or Paul McCartney.

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A Bulfinch Press Book. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Toronto, London. 1992. 
First American edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 305 x 390 mm. 168 pages. Contains 120 duotone photographs, plus three 8-page gate-folds. Photos: Herb Ritts. Text in English.

Photos of: 
Madonna, Prince, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nancy Reagan, Sinead O'Connor, Karl Lagerfeld, Angelica Huston, William S. Burroughs, Elizabeth Taylor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julia Roberts, Warren Beatty, David Bowie, Cher, Elton John, Sean Connery, Axl Rose, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Springsteen, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Charles Bukowski, Jack Nicholson, Tina Turner, Patrick Swayze, Naomi Campbell, Gary Oldman, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Tom Hanks, Jean-Paul Gautier, David Hockney, Kim Basinger, Stephen Hawking, David Letterman, Don King, Goldie Hawn, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Al Pacino, Sam Shepard, Tracy Chapman, Mike Tyson, Daryl Hannah, Richard Gere, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bono, Chris Isaak, Barbra Streisand, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and others.

Condition: 
Inside clean with no marks; pages smell like humidity.  Inside and outside with trace of use, stained and rubbed at the edges, but with no remarkable defects. Overall fine condition.

Great photobook - with BIG AND LONG AND VERY PERSONAL DEDICATION by Herb Ritts.

"Herbert Ritts 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.
Born in Los Angeles, to a Jewish family, Ritts began his career working in the family furniture business. His father, Herb Ritts Sr., was a businessman, while his mother, Shirley Ritts, was an interior designer. He moved to the East Coast to attend Bard College in New York, where he majored in economics and art history, graduating in 1975.
Later, while living in Los Angeles, he became interested in photography when he and friend Richard Gere, then an aspiring actor, decided to shoot some photographs in front of an old Buick.[1] The picture gained Ritts some coverage and he began to be more serious about photography. He photographed Brooke Shields for the cover of the October 12, 1981 edition of Elle and he photographed Olivia Newton-John for her Physical album in 1981. Five years later he replicated that cover pose with Madonna for her 1986 release True Blue. That year he photographed Tina Turner for the album Break Every Rule.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities in various locales throughout California. Some of his subjects during this time included musical artists. He also took fashion and nude photographs of models Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford, including "Tatjana, Veiled Head, Tight View, Joshua Tree, 1988." Ritts' work with them ushered in the 1990s era of the supermodel and was consecrated by one of his most celebrated images, "Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood, 1989" taken for Rolling Stone.
He also worked for Interview, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Glamour, GQ, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Time, Vogue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Details, and Elle. Ritts took publicity portraits for Batman, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin which appeared on magazine covers and merchandise throughout the 1990s. He published books on photography for various fashion designers.
From 1996 to 1997 Ritts' work was displayed at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, attracting more than 250.000 people to the exhibit, and in 2003 a solo exhibition was held at the Daimaru Museum, in Kyoto, Japan.
Ritts was openly gay. He was in a relationship with entertainment lawyer Erik Hyman from 1996 until his death in 2002. His parents were accepting and supportive of his sexuality.
Ritts was HIV-positive. He was first diagnosed in 1989, and used alternative herbal treatments to fight his condition. He never publicly disclosed his diagnosis.
On December 26, 2002, Ritts died in Los Angeles from pneumonia at the age of 50. According to Ritts' publicist, "Herb was HIV-positive, but this particular pneumonia was not PCP (pneumocystis pneumonia), a common opportunistic infection of AIDS. But at the end of the day, his immune system was compromised."
(Wikipedia)

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