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If you want reality take the bus.

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
Connecticut
David Lachapelle
Bus
Reality
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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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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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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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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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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
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You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!
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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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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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The adornment of the body is a human need.
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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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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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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 love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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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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In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
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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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