HERB RITTS: L.A. Style at The Ringling February 23, 2013 – May 19, 2013

Born in 1952, Herbert (Herb) Ritts first worked in his father’s Los Angeles furniture store before attending Bard College in New York, majoring in economics and art history. He became interested in photography after photographing his friend and then aspiring actor Richard Gere. Borrowing from classical sculpture, his hallmark style was uncluttered frames and clean, crisp lines utilizing light and shadow as form. He became wildly popular in Hollywood during the 1980s and 1990s and photographed mega-stars such as Diane Ross, Michael Jackson, Nicole Kidman, Cher, Elizabeth Taylor, Elton John, Madonna, Steven Hawking and Tina Turner, just to name a few.

General Collection Click on the title to be taken to the Library catalog.

Benson, Elaine and John Esten. Unmentionables: a brief history of underwear. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1996.

Churchward, Charles. Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour: a Photographer's life and his world. New York: Rizzoli, 2010.

Cornell, Daniell. Backyard oasis: The swimming pool in Southern California Photography 1945-1982. Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Art Museum and DelMonico Books, 2012.

Harris, Mark Edward. Faces of the twentieth century: master photographers and their work. New York: Abbeville Press, 1998.

The Indomitable spirit: [photographers and artists respond to the time of AIDS]. New York: Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, 1990.

Ritts, Herb. Africa. Boston: Bullfinch Press Book: Little, Brown and Co., c1994. *

Ritts, Herb. Duo: Herb Ritts photographs, Bob Paris & Rod Jackson. Altadena, CA: Twins Palms Publishers, 1991.*

Ritts, Herb. Herb Ritts. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Ritts, Herb. Herb Ritts. Hamburg: Stern Gruner + Jahr AG & Co., [2010].*

Ritts, Herb. Herb Ritts, pictures. Altadena, CA: Twin Palms, c1988.

Ritts, Herb and Paul Martineau. Herb Ritts: L. A. Style. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012.*

Ritts, Herb. Notorious. Boston: Little, Brown, c. 1992.*

Ritts, Herb. Herb Ritts, work. Boston: Little Brown [in association with] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996.

Articles

"Demi-tough: Demi Moore photographed by Herb Ritts in the season's sexiest dresses." Vogue. (1995): 278.

"First-class Cabin - When photographer Herb Ritts first envisioned a simple log retreat high on a Santa Fe Mountain, he forgot to factor in one force of nature, his mother. For her, Hamish Bowles finds rusticity doesn't preclude luxury." Vogue. (1996): 298.

"Herb Ritts - Madonna, Richard Gere and others remember the late photographer, who shot forty-six Rolling Stone covers." Rolling Stone. (2003): 28.

"Homage: recalling the life, career, and art of Herb Ritts." American Photo. 14 (2003): 26-33.

"The natural - Richard Gere remembers the grace and greatness of his friend, the photographer Herb Ritts." Vogue. (2003): 516.

"To be free of suffering: wisdom from the Dalai Lama, with photographs by Herb Ritts." Parabola New York. 36.1 (2011): 26-29.

“Tribute - Photographer Herb Ritts turned stars into icons.” People Weekly. (2003): 73.

Stoodley, S.G. "Ready for his close-up: a new exhibition of Herb Ritts' iconic commercial work proves that fashion photography isn't just posing as fine art." Art & Antiques. 35.4 (2012): 66 75.

Woodward, Richard. "The pleasure principle." Dance Ink. 5.4 (1994): 16-17.

Electronic Resources Art & Antiques Magazine. “Fashion photography: New exhibition of Photographer Herb Ritts.” April 2012. http://www.artandantiquesmag.com/2012/04/fashion-photography-herb-ritts/

Cincinnati Museum of Art. Herb Ritts: L.A. style. Oct. 06, 2012 to January 01, 2013. http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/explore/exhibitions/upcoming- exhibitions/details/182-herb-ritts-la-style

Herb Ritts: Memorial Exhibition and Private Collection (Photographs Collected Over 20 Years). December 11, 2003 through January 24, 2004. Fahey/Klein Gallery. http://www.faheykleingallery.com/photographers/ritts/press/private_collection/ritts_pr_ pc_frames.htm

Voguepedia: The World of Fashion in Vogue. “Photographers: Herb Ritts.” http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Herb_Ritts

Herb Ritts Selected Exhibitions

2010, Revealed: The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art, Central Connecticut State University Art Galleries, New Britain, CT.

Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.

Mick Jagger: Promenade Rock, Recontres d'arles, Arles, France.

2009, Ingres and the Moderns, Musée Ingres, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Quebec, Canada.

2008, Vanity Fair: Photographs 1913-2008, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveling to: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland and National Portrait Gallery, London, U.K.

This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Herb Ritts and Horst P. Horst, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA.

2007, The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Herb Ritts, Hamiltons Gallery, London, U.K.(solo).

All For Art! Great Private Collections Among US, Musée des Beaux Arts , Montreal, Canada.

OCULTOS (Hidden), Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain.

Classic Beauty: Part 2 - Photographs of the Male Nude, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY.

Celebrity Photographs 2007, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA(solo).

2006, Herb Ritts: A Personal Vision, Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY(solo).

Sans Regard: Collection Dancing Bear of W.M. Hunt, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2005, Herb Ritts : BODY 1984-1999, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, NY (solo).

25 Years: Fay Gold Anniversary Exhibition, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

Chronos: Time in Art From the 17th Century to the Modern Day, Il Filatoio, Caraglio, Italy.

Speaking With Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain.

2004, Herb Ritts, Museum of Art & History, Shunan City, Japan(solo).

Body, Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.

Platinum, Galleria abOrigena, Milan, Italy.

Photo-Icon, Arte Fino, Zurich, Switzerland.

2003, Herb Ritts Memorial Exhibition, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA(solo).

Herb Ritts, Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, Japan(solo).

Masterworks in Platinum, Camera Obscura, Denver, CO.

2002, Faces in Music 1952-2002, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Archeology of Elegance, International Hall of Photography, Hamburg, Germany.

2001, Cartier, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany; traveling to: Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy.

The Portrait / The Nude III, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Herb Ritts - NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany(solo).

2000, Herb Ritts, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy(solo).

Herb Ritts: Photographien, Camerawork Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

Masterminds of Mode: International Fashion Festival, Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe, Japan.

1999, Herb Ritts, Fondation Cartier pour L'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo).

Herb Ritts: Work, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO(solo).

Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art & Fashion, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.

1998, Herb Ritts, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR (solo).

Herb Ritts: Photographs, SK Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR(solo).

Waterproof/A Prova de Agua, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.

1997, Summer Pleasures, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, NY.

Africa, Albany Museum of Arts, Albany, GA.

1996, Herb Ritts: Work, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA(solo).

Selected Public Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY.

Museum of Art & History, Shunan City, Japan.

Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland .

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

International Hall of Photography, Hamburg, Germany.

Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe, Japan.

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL.

Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL.

Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy.

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.

National Portrait Gallery, London, U.K.

Electronic Resources http://ringling.org/Exhibitions2.aspx?id=12688 http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/ritts/ http://ringling.org/Exhibitions2.aspx?id=12688 http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/ritts/

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