The Getty Museum has announced the acquisition of 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts.
The acquisition includes photographs of nudes, celebrity portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns.
A portrait of Richard Gere as a budding young actor taken by Ritts in 1977 is one of the highlights, but it also has an interesting backstory. In an interview with François Quintin in 1999, Ritts talked about this famous picture of his friend Richard, which depicts Gere as a new American hero—and which launched Ritts’s photography career.
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