Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - Introduction to Herb Ritz

Introduction to Herb Ritz

Herb Ritz

Chinese name: Herb Ritz

Place of birth: USA

Place of birth: Los Angeles

Gender: male

Nationality: USA

Occupation: art photographer

Representative works: Madonna, Africa

brief introduction

Herb Ritz was a famous portrait photographer in 1980s and 1990s, and he was related to Rolling Stone magazine.

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works

The main book "Africa" was published in 1994, which was warmly welcomed by the reading community and won praise and praise.

People often refer to his works as Madonna in the late 1980s. She was a unique superstar at that time.

Li Pin's portrait photographer is not concerned with the theme, but with the composition aesthetics of the work itself.

Evaluation of works

Madonna looks like Marilyn Monroe from the dead. In this skirt, she looks like james deen's girlfriend. This method of making the protagonist pose in a pale and flat background was established by irving penn and Richard Avonden in 1950s and 1960s, and it often represents victimization and sacrifice. The hero is cornered and has no other support. What he relies on is only the few spiritual resources left at the moment. Madonna's performance is a response to the program, claiming that she is equivalent to this moment. Warhol's reaction in the 1970s was indifference, but Madonna represented a new aesthetic concept and took a different path, so she improvised.

Among modern photographers, Herb Ritz is regarded as one of the leading figures who can grasp the essence of portrait photography. In his purest portrait form, simplicity, charm and humor blend together. His works not only show a unique personal style, but also are very popular, which is the kind of portrait that people want to see more. Because of this, he reached a position as well known as the characters he photographed.