Beauty and Celebrity continues with Herb Ritts at OKC Museum of Art

Staff Report

Beauty and Celebrity, the most iconic of the Herb Ritts collection, remains on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art through July 28, 2013. The three month showing was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with the support of the Herb Ritts Foundation and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art

This exhibition will feature over eighty large-scale black-and-white photographs by acclaimed photographer, Herb Ritts (American, 1952-2002). Ranging in scale from intimate portraits to ten foot murals, the exhibition will highlight the diversity of the artist’s work.

Ritts emerged in the 1980s to become one of the most successful celebrity and fashion photographers of the late twentieth century and an important part of the history of American photography.

The intimate publicity images that he made of Richard Gere were among his first serious portraits and helped to launch his career.

The photographs included in the exhibition represent some of Herb Ritts’s most iconic works.

Fashion photographs on view include such as Versace Veiled Dress; examples of celebrity portraiture include Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Madonna, Elizabeth Taylor, Johnny Depp, Bruce Springsteen, Drew Barrymore, David Bowie, Matthew McConaughey, and Mick Jagger.

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