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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

David LaChapelle

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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Music Video Director
Photographer
Video Artist
Fairfield
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David Lachapelle
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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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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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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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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
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There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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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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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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What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!
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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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If you want reality take the bus.
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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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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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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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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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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 still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
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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 think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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