How Herb Ritts' Photos Defined The Glamour Of Fashion

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Herb Ritts, Peter Lindbergh, Ellen Von Unworth, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino, Patrick Demarchelier - You Can Pick Only One :D

[@marcthibault8723]

Peter Lindbergh

[@marcels.6514]

Herb Ritts

[@domsphotography]

Herb Ritts

[@donaldgibson1642]

its not possible for me to choose just one, Herb Ritts has just been added to my small collection of influences. Thank you for opening another door for me, you seem to have a knack for that.

[@brianm.9062]

Herb Ritts.

[@carlnewman5448]

I had the great pleasure of working with Herb at Pinewood Studios. He was one of the loveliest and most inspiring guys to work with.

[@ChrisHunt4497]

Thank you for showing these wonderful photographs and for the lesson. ❤❤❤

[@ThePhotographicEye]

You are so welcome!

[@michaelmillward8006]

One of the best videos on photography on the web. One can learn so much from this presentation

[@JeffreyHauser]

Herb Ritts is one of my favourite photographers, as I was a young man during the 1980’s & I relate to the models & celebrities during that time period. He was an ABSOLUTE MASTER of photography. I also admired his videography efforts as well. His music video of a young Shikira singing “Underneath My Clothes” is beautifully done. Thank you for your overview of Herb’s style. 😊

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thanks for watching

[@manilamartin1001]

Cool. I grew up in LA so I always tried to imitate his style back in the 80s. Definitely worth taking a look at his work.

[@simon359]

I love Herb Ritts! I remember running out to get the book “Notorious” when it first came out, so glad I have that book! His work has inspired me and made me want to learn about fashion photography!

[@crissignori7482]

Tremendously fine presentation here .... Much, much appreciated. Thank you

[@GaryParris]

recently i have done digital B&W out of camera not using the additional RAW, but in the style of the 1920s hollywood glamour style using a single Fresnel lens on strobe. as i was drawn to this but never got around to doing them with film, and i love the results that i am tring to do.

[@charlesk323]

Wow....again. I need to take a workshop to get closer to these amazing results!

[@brianm.9062]

having just viewed your last vid 'how I overcame' it seems the topic you talked through Herb Ritts could see the potential of the model in certain situations, no frustrations, he knew who he needed for the shot which was in his minds eye, a beautiful and rare gift. And your right his work is amazing, makes it look so easy and relaxed. Thanks Alex.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thanks for watching

[@innercynic2784]

Definitely has that art-deco vibe

[@johnclay7644]

informative video on Herb.Ritts,

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you

[@earlfenwick]

I worked for Herb Ritts for a day in 1993 on the set of The Firm in Memphis. He was commissioned to shoot a portrait of Tom Cruise for the movie poster. I was on the lighting crew and I guess the gaffer thought I would be the artsy guy to help him out with power and light. He sent me back to the truck continually to get 10K fresnels to light up the (faux) marble floor in the background. Cruise was in 'TheThinker' pose. Not especially interesting. The shot never got used. They ended up with a Saul Bass-style illustration. The thing I remember most was his crew of VERY beautiful assistants and his publicist reminding him that Bowie and Madonna would be in the studio in the coming week. Rarefied air!

[@StevenKeery]

Earlfenwick: I like his photos but he sounds a bit 'precious' to me, if your portrayal of him is accurate. Who needs a sycophant in the background to assuage their ego, by telling them within earshot of everyone else, that they were photographing X, Y or Z next week. Really, didn't the man keep an appointment diary? Or was he really that vain?

[@Rob.1340]

Thank you. All the best. 👍📷😎

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thanks, you too!

[@henrywestridge7298]

Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

My pleasure!

[@marcthibault8723]

Saw the Herb Ritz exhibition at the Getty Museum in California about 10 years ago. Some very interesting photos!

[@ThePhotographicEye]

I'd love to see some of his work in person.

[@borassictime918]

He clearly combined the LA light with medium-format b&w (almost always) because of the timeless, stripped-down, tonality that matched perfectly (incl, orange, red, CP, etc filters I assume), that enabled him to bring out his own style, his own vision, in perfect clarity. Masterful work.

[@domsphotography]

Herb Ritts is one if not my favourite photographer, I have LA Style which is a book I go back to for inspiration more than any other for all the reasons you mentioned in this video.

[@tedbrown7908]

Herb Ritts used Mamiya RZ67 medium format camera system with Film. That tells me he knew how to control light to get the pictures he produced.

[@wbluthier]

You´re simply the best (la la laira). Thank´s again for the beautifull lesson. Regards from Argentina.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Thank you! 😃

[@seaeagles6025]

Hi Alex, great and interesting famous people that Herb Ritts photographed, a true professional. Really nice photos of those famous beautiful models, and i also liked the photo of David Bowie and Sylvester Stallone. He certainly used Light the right way to capture those beautiful photos. Great point you made Alex to find an image that you love, simplicity and nothing complicated, to just take photos from the Heart. Thanks for this great video. 😃

[@ThePhotographicEye]

Many thanks!

[@waynecoles6041]

bonus points for pronouncing Fresnel correctly :D

[@ThePhotographicEye]

I used to work in the theatre, and once called a Fresnel lens as Frez-nel. The LD told me the proper pronounciation and the weird thing is, I can still hear him telling me it!

[@waynecoles6041]

@@ThePhotographicEye so many say Frez-nel, that my ears have gotten used to it (and the internal sigh has diminished). So much so, that the fact you pronounced it correctly jumped out at my ears :)

[@To.Si.Ma.]

Sort of Riefenstahl.

[@LenaCabana]

10.55 - which video to check? It seems there is no link. Thank you for this short video. I love his work. Every image is visual pleasure.

[@TheNitebinder]

Like you said, many fashion photographers like Herb Ritts became quite successful from the 1980's to the late 1990's. Some of them gave up fashion photography with advent of Digital photography. For a time, they changed the look of photography with 35mm, medium format and view camera equipment.

[@lennartverhoeven]

Thank you so much for this video! There is so much inspiration to be found in these 11 minutes. I appreciate that you are mentioning so many different things ranging from photography fundamentals such as shape and form, names of photographers, lighting styles, 1930's Vanity Fair (I didn't even know it existed back then, it turns out that their entire archive is available online!). I've bought a 1930's box camera and my friend suggested to do a 1930's themed photo shoot. You have given me so many valuable tips on 1930's photography. I have never heard of George Hurrell, Anton Bruehl or Maurice Goldberg. I doubt I would have found them myself. This is a great starting point for my research / home work into this era of photography. Fun fact: my native language (Dutch) does not distinguish between "shape" and "form". Both translate to "vorm". Therefore it has taken me some time to wrap my head around these concepts. Now I have and I am definitely going to apply it in my photography.

[@ThePhotographicEye]

That’s awesome. Thank you for watching

[@ddsdss256]

Thanks. Although I rarely photograph people (who may appear incidentally in my work but are rarely the "central subject"), there's much to be applied from the vision and technique behind the very compelling work you've shown here. All artforms can and should influence each other. I approach photography from the perspective of a painter (abstract expressionist non-objective) and the use of light and form in some of these examples apply well beyond portraiture.

[@IanFleming808]

I think Herb Ritts got alot of inspiration from a Vogue photographer from the 30s/40s named Horst P Horst. His use of circles and round objects from Horst’s May 1941 Vogue cover is undoubtably. Horst’s style is more fashion than Herbs and he was an early adopter of color film so Herb Ritts decided just go black and white.

[@PhutureproofUK]

An interesting one this. All very beautiful, striking images. But then all very beautiful, stringing people. All of these people ‘know’ how to make themselves look good too. I’m Not discounting the photographer’s skill so much as the use of light and composition is important. It would be great to put ‘any old’ photographer in front of these sorts of people and see what results come out of it. Separating the beauty in the subject from the beauty in the photograph is hard to do IMO.

[@pederfuglpedersen9091]

❣💯I like

[@angelamaloney4871]

Well, I can’t see the video yet. :-( But I have pre-emptively put Herb Ritts L.A. style in my Amazon shopping cart. :-)

[@Daniel_Zalman]

I'm a Lindbergh man, muhself!

[@andreaxyz3959]

A fine example of American Formalism which managed to succesfully dissipate postmodern concerns

[@StevenKeery]

Andreaxyz: What on Earth are American Formalism and postmodern concerns when they are at home?

[@iaincphotography6051]

I liked his work, but preferred Bailey, Duffy, Donovan, Lindbergh and Helmut Newton. He maybe got an easier start than say Bailey. But sad that he died so young.