“This Summer 49 of Ritchie’s photographs will be included in a major Velvet Underground exhibition, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – ‘NEW YORK EXTRAVAGANZA’ at the Philharmonie de Paris, in Paris, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the group’s debut album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. In Ritchie’s sharp monochrome images we see a group in transition, shirtless and covered in ‘war paint’ …
