{"id":2950,"date":"2012-10-18T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T02:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2012-10-19T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:24:44","slug":"l-a-style-photography-exhibit-by-herb-ritts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/arts\/l-a-style-photography-exhibit-by-herb-ritts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cL.A. Style\u201d Photography Exhibit by Herb Ritts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current photography exhibit \u201cHerb Ritts: L.A. Style\u201d at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, further canonizes California\u2019s native son and master image-maker.\u00a0Everybody attuned to contemporary American culture in the 1980\u2019s to the aughts, has an iconic\u00a0Herb Ritts<\/strong>\u00a0image imprinted in their cultural memory, whether a coterie of kittenish super models huddled together in the nude, a beefcake young\u00a0Richard Gere<\/strong>\u00a0in an auto garage or a majestic\u00a0Djimon Hounsou<\/strong>\u00a0profiled with a live octopus as his fantastical headress. It is impossible to have passed through those decades without encountering one of Ritts\u2019 indelible images via his work in the fashion magazines, his commercial advertising (Armani, Versace, Calvin Klein), celeb portraiture (Cindy Crawford, Johnny Depp, Richard Gere, Madonna, Jack Nicholson<\/strong>), gallery-worthy nudes or striking music videos (who can forget Madonna frolicking on the beach,\u00a0Chris Isaak<\/strong>\u00a0crooning \u201cWicked Game\u201d to a disinterested\u00a0Helena Christensen<\/strong>, or the dancer\u00a0rotating within a giant cylinder in the California desert for a\u00a0Janet Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0video).<\/p>\n

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Now a new, gem-like show at\u00a0The Getty Center, Los Angeles<\/strong>, puts the spotlight on Ritts\u2019 photography and inextricable ties to both Los Angeles and its celeb denizens, ten years after his untimely death. Over 1,200 images were culled down to about 87, some iconic, some never-before-published, for this exhibit, which is on display\u00a0through August 12, 2012<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the most striking aspect of Ritts\u2019 work is how it was both simultaneously of the moment (California\u2019s celeb-obsessed and body-worshipping culture and the rise of the super model) and at the same time, absolutely classical and timeless. The self-taught lensman has always been associated with the sun and sea and the heroic, bronzed bodies (sometimes rising out of the sea like a Venus, other times writhing in chains like a muscular Laoco\u00f6n sculpture from antiquity). Ritts worked primarily outdoors instead of in the studio, with the austere sublimity of nature as the backdrop, natural light as the illuminator, and in a further nod to nature, Ritts preferred his subjects nude whenever possible. But his nudes were far from salacious\u2014sexy, yes, but elegant, classical, rendered almost abstract and sculptural in his signature black- and-white.<\/p>\n

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His celeb portraits, placed mostly in nature, likewise tried to strip these complex beings down to their true essence while rendering them beautiful and iconic. As exhibition curator\u00a0Paul Martineau<\/strong>\u00a0sums it up: \u201c[Ritts] revolutionized fashion photography, modernized the nude, and transformed celebrities into icons.\u201d Even Madonna was malleable when it came to Ritts\u2019 artistic eye\u2026and that\u2019s saying A LOT.<\/p>\n

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The current photography exhibit \u201cHerb Ritts: L.A. Style\u201d at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, further canonizes California\u2019s native son and master image-maker.\u00a0Everybody attuned to contemporary American culture in the 1980\u2019s to the aughts, has an iconic\u00a0Herb Ritts\u00a0image imprinted in their cultural memory, whether a coterie of kittenish super models huddled together in the nude, a beefcake young\u00a0Richard Gere\u00a0in an auto garage or a majestic\u00a0Djimon Hounsou\u00a0profiled with a live octopus as his fantastical headress. It is impossible to have passed through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[113,112,114],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cL.A. Style\u201d Photography Exhibit by Herb Ritts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The current photography exhibit \u201cHerb Ritts: L.A. 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