You're trying to get to one moment with one frame that eventually may speak for your generation.
Herb Ritts, 1999
Coming from California and growing up where I did, I’ve always had a fondness for an innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.
Herb Ritts, 1999
No matter the reason why you are there in front of a subject, you are still given the opportunity at that moment to create an image that will affect people. I’m recording people.
Herb Ritts, 1999
For me, a portrait is something from which you feel the person, their inner quality, what it is that makes them who they are.
Herb Ritts, 1999
Sometimes people have trouble with the context of why a picture is taken. Whether you take it for Vogue or for the GAP or for yourself matters little to me.
Herb Ritts, 1999
The key element is developing a style that’s yours and experimenting with it until you eventually discover what makes sense to you.
Herb Ritts, 1999
This generation right now has to see what Herb Ritts' work was about because it's something that I think when you open the fashion magazines it's definitely missing.
Naomi Campbell, 2012
Herb Ritts Foundation has two charitable purposes
Continuing Herb’s longstanding support of HIV/AIDS research
Supporting Herb’s great passion for photography and other forms of art
Herb Ritts: The Backstory
Insights and stories into the life and work of Herb Ritts
