Biography

Herb Ritts (1952-2002)

  HERB RITTS was a self-taught photographer.

Born in 1952 in Los Angeles, he graduated with a major in economics from Bard College in 1974. Around that time, he began to take photographic portraits of friends.

Ritts has published six books:  Herb Ritts: Pictures, Men/Women, Duo: Herb Ritts Photographs Bob Paris & Rod Jackson, Notorious, Africa, and  Work.

He died in 2002 from complications caused by pneumonia.

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