This beautifully produced book is the result of a collaboration between watchmaker TAG Heuer and the late, renowned photographer Herb Ritts in order to promote TAG Heuer's new sports watch, Kirium. "The TAG Heuer Kirium project on sport and champions confronted Herb Ritts with the challenge of portraying thirteen men and women all as outstanding athletes in their fields of sporting achievement as he is behind the camera. Wielding his camera, patiently pacing back and forth, (he) pursued his prey, coaxing all thirteen figures to reveal their true spirit, capturing them for a moment in time, timeless, moving into the realms of eternity" (the publisher). Includes photographs of the athletes: Boris Becker, Amy Van Dyken, Jacqui Agyepong, Jean Galfione, Marie-Jose Perec, Kazuyoshi "Kazu" Miura, Colin Jackson, Dan O'Brien, Vitaly Scherbo, Anita Weyermann, David Coulthard, Antonio Rossi, and Carlos Moya. Illustrated black and white soft cover with white titling on black spine, illustrated throughout with black and white semi-nude photographic portraits, including a one-page commentary on each athlete. A near-fine copy wth some light shelfwear to wrappers. 11 x 8.5 inches. 76 pages. 43 black-and-white illustrations. First edition.