The volume is divided into three parts that run through the whole creative world of Herb Ritts, with short comments by the author or by the people he worked with set among the images. The first part gathers the work in which his close attention to the plasticity of bodies is plain and, combined with a careful study of classical composition, turns into extremely balanced and natural frames. Then comes Africa, a continent that always held a great pull for him and to which he devoted many journeys, even a few days before his death. The last part concentrates on portraits: many of these are icons that helped make some great artists famous, among them Madonna — the cover of True Blue is his, as is the direction of the video for Cherish — David Bowie, Richard Gere and Elizabeth Taylor. The volume closes with an interview made in 1987.