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Herb Ritts

"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."

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"I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down."

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A.E. Samaan

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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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."

Home

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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
"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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Herb Ritts
"I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me."

Art

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

Strength

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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."

Time

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

Business

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

People

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Herb Ritts
"The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images."

Education

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Herb Ritts
"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."

Being

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