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In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
David LaChapelle
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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.
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Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.
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My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.
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I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
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The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
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I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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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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The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
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What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.
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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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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 had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother finding God in nature, so I've taken a little from both [traditions].
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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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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
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Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.
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For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.
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