Herb Ritts In full light

Herbert "Herb" Ritts Jr. (August 13, 1952- December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer and director prolific for his photographs  of celebrities, models, and other cultural figures troughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black-and-white photography and potraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture, which emphasized the human shape.
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Veturitalli museum, Finland

Leaflet from the exhibition

Herb Ritts exhibition "In full light" was an interesting experience at Veturitalli museum (Finland, Salo). Guided tour gave a lot of interesting information about the pictures, and it would have been enjoyable without the guide too. Every picture has it´s own story, and that makes the pictures more meaningfull. If you have a chance to go and see this exhibition, I highly recommend for you to go.

interior picture from the museum and some of the Herb Ritts pictures

Retrospective exhibition Herb Ritts in full light. The name refers to the afternoon sunlight that the artist used in his many pictures. Herb became well known as a fashion photographer, whos pictures were featured, for exsample in Vogue, Vanity Fair an Rolling Stones magazines. Ritts photographed Hollywood  fashionworld´s and music life´s celebrities, and became an icon before digital time.

These pictures were taken at 3am 

Herb Ritts took pictures only with the elements of the nature and materials like human skin, hair, ocean, rocks, sun and shadows. He potrayed himself as selflearned phoptographer and made  it clear that he became a photographer by accident by the photographs that he took of his actor friend Richard Gere. (Alltough he had some education at photography.)
Herb Ritts has a "3 A´s rule" , a photograph must be Attractive, Alluring and Appealing.