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I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

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
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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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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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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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The adornment of the body is a human need.
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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
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I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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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 like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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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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If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.
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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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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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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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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 have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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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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I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
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If you want reality take the bus.
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