On August 13 1952, one of Madonna’s closest friends, Herb Ritts, was born in Los Angeles, California.
Ritts specialized in black and white photography and music videos, including Madonna’s Cherish music video and the photoshoot for Madonna’s True Blue, Like A Prayer and Immaculate Collection albums (among others — the list just goes on and on).
Throughout the 80’s and 90’s, Herb was at Madonna’s side taking the most beautiful photos of her possible. We thank him from the bottom of our hearts for capturing Madonna during this time in her life and career.
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Herb ritts was such an amazing talent he took so many great pics of Madonna and his video for cherish was fantastic he caught Madonna in all of her beauty.
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It’s perfectly clear that Madonna loved him!
The candid photos are just beautiful. You can tell that they loved each other.
Without a doubt, he took some of her most iconic pics. His photoshoot for True Blue produced my favorite photos of her: the album cover and the ones with the black leather jacket falling off her shoulders.
The true blue album cover by herb ritts is one of the best of all time. Love the leather jacket photo also