{"id":716,"date":"2002-12-26T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-27T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:31:21","slug":"herb-ritts-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Herb Ritts &#8211; RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2002\/z122602rip_herb_ritts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"230\"><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">HERB RITTS<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> died today. He was only 50 years old&#8230; and such a talent. <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">RITTS<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> was best known for his celebrity photographs. <\/span>The black and white photo that Mr. RITTS took of SLY<span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> is one of the most requested on my StalloneZone site. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Although best known for his black and white celebrity photos, &#8220;unglamorized portraits of glamorous people,&#8221; as <b>David Fahey<\/b>, <b>RITTS<\/b>&#8216; gallery representative, once told the <b>Los Angeles Times<\/b>, he was equally adept with moving pictures. In 1991 <b>RITTS<\/b> won <b>MTV<\/b>&#8216;s <i>Director of the Year<\/i> for both the <i>Male Video of the Year<\/i> [<b>CHRIS ISAAK<\/b>] and <i>Female Video of the Year<\/i> [<b>JANET JACKSON<\/b>].<b> HERB RITTS<\/b> photographed just about everyone ranging from <b>MADONNA<\/b> to the <b>DALAI LAMA<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>HERB RITTS<\/b> is survived by his mother, <b>Shirley Ritts<\/b>; a brother, <b>Rory<\/b>; a sister, <b>Christy<\/b>; and his partner, <b>Erik Hyman<\/b>. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERB RITTS died today. He was only 50 years old&#8230; and such a talent. RITTS was best known for his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-rip","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32891,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/32891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}