Celeb Photographer Herb Ritts Gets His Closeup - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News

Celeb Photographer Herb Ritts Gets His Closeup - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News: "ade him something of a celebrity himself. Now, nine years after his death, the work of Ritts is getting its own CLOSE UP . . . as Rita Braver is about to show us:


Whether it was movie stars, musicians or models, Herb Ritts had a way of getting to the ESSENCE of a person.

'I can have a given situation set up, but it's catching that moment - allowing them to be themselves - and capturing something that's special,' he said.

And up until his death in 2002 at age 50, Ritts was capturing those special images - photographs that were surprising, amusing, moving, memorable.

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Whether it was a world-renowned beauty like Cindy Crawford . . .

'What I always say is the way Herb photographed you is the way that you wished you looked when you got up in the morning,' Crawford said . . .

. . . or singer-songwriter k.d. lang . . .

'I think Herb had a way of understanding how to exude the beauty within,' lang said. 'I really do. He knew the balance of the soul and the body, and where the beauty was.'"