Herb Ritts created the famous 1992 Vogue cover featuring Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere.
The cover appeared on American Vogue and showed model Cindy Crawford with actor Richard Gere. Its pairing of a supermodel and a major Hollywood star made it one of the magazine’s most recognizable early-1990s covers.
Herb Ritts was known for clean, sculptural black-and-white photography and for portraits of celebrities, models, and musicians. His work appeared regularly in leading fashion publications, and he also directed music videos and advertising campaigns.
The image is sometimes attributed to Steven Meisel or other photographers who worked frequently for Vogue during the same era. Ritts, however, photographed the Crawford-and-Gere cover. The cover is also separate from the question of who photographed Vogue’s first photographic cover, which appeared decades earlier.