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My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.

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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
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I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
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I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
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My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.
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If you want reality take the bus.
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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.
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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
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I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.
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I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.
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Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.
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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!
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