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The new exhibition will feature an array of Ritts's photographs celebrating the human body and the California lifestyle in his distinctive black and white photography style.
Works by the American fashion photographer Herb Ritts are to go on show March 14 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, following the MFA's groundbreaking 1996 solo exhibition of Ritts's work.
The 1996 MFA exhibit 'Herb Ritts: Work' was the first major museum exhibition of the photographer's work and one of the most successful shows in the MFA's history.
The Herb Ritts Foundation has since given the museum a print of every image from the 1996 retrospective -- as well as funding the museum's Herb Ritts Gallery for Photography -- and the new exhibition will feature an array of Ritts's photographs celebrating the human body and the California lifestyle, including many of his best known works of celebrities such as Madonna, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell.
Herb Ritts was born in 1952 and died in 2002 at the age of 50. His distinctive black and white photography got its start with a series of photos the artist took of his friend, Richard Gere, and he continued to capture major celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Julie Roberts, Michael Jackson and Jack Nicholson throughout his lifetime.
In 2012, Ritts was the focus of a show at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles that marked the first major exhibition of his work since his death in 2002 -- or, for the matter, since the MFA's 1996 event.
This latest retropective comes at a time when fashion is increasingly taking center stage in museums, with exhibitions such as "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" and "Dries van Noten: Inspiration" drawing major crowds.
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