FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER HERB RITTS DEAD
Thurs Dec 26 2002 17:10:20 ET
Top celebrity and fashion photographer Herb Ritts died Thursday morning at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 50.
He died of complications from pneumonia, his publicist Stephen Huvane confirmed.
Ritts made his name snapping celebrities like Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Cindy
Crawford and even Monica Lewinsky for covers and spreads in magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Playboy and Rolling Stone.
He also directed highly stylized music videos for Madonna, Janet Jackson and Chris Issac, and did commercial work for, among others, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, The GAP, Giorgio Armani.
Ritts' last shoot was taken earlier this month with Ben Affleck for a forthcoming Vanity Fair cover.
