Publishers text: Herb Ritts’ photographs have quickly become the quintessential distillation of American Pop culture in the eighties. Ritts’ portraits of celebrities are at once monumental, recognizable, and often sexually charged. His pictures of rock star Madonna have given cache to all she hopes to sell the world; glamour, sex, and song. Sylvester Stallone, another Pop icon, seems to parody himself with his macho posturing in Ritts’ photographs. Others joining the parade are Pee Wee Herman, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine and Beach Boy Brian Wilson. This volume is THE document of high Pop culture for the eighties, filled with our fantasies of ourselves.