Herb Ritts was born on August 13th, 1952 and died of pneumonia on December 2nd, 2002 both in Los Angeles, California. He taught himself photography shortly after he graduated from Bard College in New York with a major in economics. He became famous when he took pictures of his friends boyfriend Richard Gere who later became a famous actor. I was drawn to him because I saw photographs of celebrities like Michael Jackson and Madonna and so I wanted to learn more about how he got that far.
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