Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour: A Photographer’s Life and His World Reviews
Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour: A Photographer’s Life and His World
The definitive book on the life of the legendary photographer Herb Ritts, with never-before-seen images and interviews with his closest confidants. At the time of his death in 2002, Herb Ritts was among the most celebrated photographers in celebrity portraiture, fashion, and music videos. During a career that spanned nearly thirty years, he was virtually in a league of his own in terms of style and productivity. Ritts was Hollywood royalty, as were his closest friends and the subjects he photographed. The Golden Hour reveals for the first time the personal aspects of Ritts’s world, work, and legacy. The book includes many never-before-seen photographs and scores of interviews from business associates, curators, staff, lovers, and family,
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Glaring Editing Errors,
It is unfortunate that Rizzoli, publisher of “Herb Ritts The Golden Hour” by Charles Churchward, didn’t pay more attention to their editing. While the book provides great insight on a photography legend, it gets off on the wrong foot:
Chapter 1 (page 31) – There are comments by Cindy Crawford, David Fahey, Frenchie & Shirley Ritts. Shirley’s comments end on page 31 and they are not continued on page 32. Page 32 lists the Ritts family tree followed by the exact same comments on page 31 by Cindy Crawford & David Fahey. Page 33 starts mid-sentence by an unknown source.
For a book of this caliber, it’s unacceptable craftmanship by the editor of this book and Rizzoli.
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|Extremely disappointing,
No photos.
Just a bunch of listless and pointless quotes about the man, not really the photographer. It feels more like a memorial service. Tedious, confused and so not-what-I-had-expected-it-to-be. I would go as far to say ‘self-indulgent’, had the iconic photographer been alive today. For someone with such vision and artistry, it is a shame that so little of his actual work is featured in this thick ‘coffee-table’ book about the photographer himself. This is not a photography collection. It is just ‘quotes’ from here and there, by this famous name or that famous fashion personality. And btw, most of these quotes are quite vapid, since they are from the fashion people about yet again another fashion person.
They generally lack depth or literary wizardry… naturally.
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|Less of a look into his photography and more a look into his personal life,
I am a huge fan of Ritts’ work and bought several published books of his work while he was still alive. His use of hard sunlight to sculpt form and shadow was incomparable. I bought this book thinking that it would give more insight into his photographic technique, but this book dwells so much more on his personal life and more specifically his family life. Do we care what his mother was like ? No. Did she make him a better photographer ? No.
I agree also with the original poster. The editing errors are glaring.
Also the book has very few quotes from Madonna, which is odd since they were such close friends. Then you realize that the quotes from Madonna were taken completely from her eulogy at his memorial service in 2003 !! I thought it was a bit misleading that the author did not attempt to get more recent and retrospective quotes from Madonna, and instead copied her eulogy. Then you wonder how many of the other quotes were borrowed from other sources.
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