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Herb Ritts

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

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Akiroq Brost

"When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've been working with photography for many years."

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Akiroq Brost

"Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."

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"We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium."

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"A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words."

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Akiroq Brost

"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."

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"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."

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"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."

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"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."

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Herb Ritts
"Many people who excel are self-taught."

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"I like form and shape and strength in pictures."

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"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."

Friendship

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Herb Ritts
"Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics."

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Herb Ritts
"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

Photography

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Herb Ritts
"That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal."

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Herb Ritts
"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."

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"I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father."

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"What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace."

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"I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay."

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