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== Career ==
Later, while living in Los Angeles, he became interested in photography when he and friend [[Richard Gere]], then an aspiring actor, decided to shoot some photographs in front of an old jacked up Buick.<ref name=nyt/> The picture gained Ritts some coverage and he began to be more serious about photography. He photographed [[Brooke Shields]] for the cover of the October 12, 1981 edition of ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' and he photographed [[Olivia Newton-John]] for her ''[[Physical (Olivia Newton-John album)|Physical]]'' album in 1981. Five years later he replicated that cover pose with [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] for her 1986 release ''[[True Blue (Madonna album)|True Blue]]''. That year he photographed [[Tina Turner]] for the album ''[[Break Every Rule]]''.
 
During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities in various locales throughout California.<ref name=RS87>{{citation | last=Loder | first=Kurt | title=Stardust Memories |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]| issue=498 | date=April 23, 1987 | pages=74–77,80,82,168,171}}</ref> Some of his subjects during this time included musical artists. He also took fashion and nude photographs of models [[Naomi Campbell]], [[Stephanie Seymour]], [[Tatjana Patitz]], [[Christy Turlington]], and [[Cindy Crawford]], including "[[Tatjana Veiled Head (Tight View), Joshua Tree 1988|Tatjana, Veiled Head, Tight View, Joshua Tree, 1988]]."<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-09-03|title=Herb Ritts|url=https://www.herbritts.com/}}</ref> Ritts' work with them ushered in the 1990s era of the supermodel and was consecrated by one of his most celebrated images, "Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood, 1989" taken for ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.{{cn|date=September 2022}}