Ritts' photo of his pal Richard Gere - snapped while the two of them were waiting for a tire to be changed - helped launch both their careers in 1978. "Three months later, Vogue, Esquire, Mademoiselle had run all the images from the gas station that I'd taken, which was kind of interesting - and I got paid for it," Ritts later told CBS News.
(from cbsnews.com)