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Herb Ritts

"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."

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Donna Grant

"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

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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."

Career

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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
"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

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Herb Ritts
"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood."

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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
"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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Herb Ritts
"I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element."

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Herb Ritts
"I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense."

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Herb Ritts
"For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye."

Photography

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