{"id":15306,"date":"2002-12-30T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-30T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/herb-ritts\/"},"modified":"2002-12-30T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-30T15:12:00","slug":"herb-ritts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/herb-ritts\/","title":{"rendered":"Herb Ritts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/mfa\/ritts\/exbibition.htm\" title=\"Herb Ritts' Madonna\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/ritts_madonna.jpg\" alt=\"Herb Ritts' Madonna\" \/><\/a>Celebrity photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/arts\/AP-Obit-Ritts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Herb Ritts died last Friday at the age of 50<\/a>.  He was best known for his poignant black and white photography of people, from &ldquo;pop culture icons to world leaders.&rdquo;  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/mfa\/ritts\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston is currently exhibiting his work<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/22537\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter discussion<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22herb+ritts%22+photography&amp;sourceid=mozilla-search&amp;start=0&amp;start=0\" target=\"_blank\">Google search on his work<\/a> yield numerous online galleries and links.  Ritts saw his photography as art transcending the subject matter; I tend to agree with his assessment and legacy:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty or 60 years from now, if someone sees a portrait of Madonna, they really won&rsquo;t care that it was Madonna or they won&rsquo;t know who the hell she was.  But it&rsquo;ll hold up as a portrait of an interesting woman you want to know. You feel her. There&rsquo;s something coming from it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90101951?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity photographer Herb Ritts died last Friday at the age of 50. He was best known for his poignant black and white photography of people, from &ldquo;pop culture icons to world leaders.&rdquo; The Museum Of Fine Arts in Boston is currently exhibiting his work, and the MetaFilter discussion or a Google search on his work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/30\/herb-ritts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Herb Ritts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}