Estimated Price:

$90,000 - $110,000

Realised Price:

$190,000

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Live Auction Lot: Herb Ritts Personal Camera and Photograph

This is a rare opportunity to own a signed, titled, and editioned Herb Ritts print along with one of Ritts' personal cameras while benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

This is one of an edition of only nine prints. And on Sunday February 25, 2007 this iconographic print and Herb Ritts? Mamiya camera will be auctioned live during the annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party. Even if you cannot attend the event, you can participate in this auction "live" online, by proxy or by telephone. All proceeds from the auction will go to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation and its vital work in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Herb Ritts Photographic Print

Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tatjana, Naomi, Hollywood 1989

Herb Ritts (American 1952-2002)
Image created: March 21, 1989
Printed: July 1996
Gelatin Silver Photograph
Flush mounted on Aluminum
Signed, titled and editioned en recto

Edition of 9 total prints (7 prints plus 2 artist proofs) of which only 4 prints were created during the lifetime of the artist.

A print from this edition was displayed in the Herb Ritts WORK exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1996. This print now resides in the permanent collection of the MFA, Boston.

The image was reproduced in the catalog Herb Ritts Work, published by Bulfinch Press in 1996.

Mamiya RZ Camera

Mamiya RZ 6x7 camera body fitted with a 150mm lens, viewing prism, motor winder, 220 film back, and handgrip, owned and used by photographer Herb Ritts and donated by the Herb Ritts Foundation.

Herb Ritts' favored choice of photographic equipment was a medium format camera producing a 6 x 7 centimeter (2 1/4" x 2 3/4") negative. Working with three cameras that were set up identically it allowed him to keep a spontaneity in his sessions giving both himself and subject the creative freedom "To capture the moment."

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