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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

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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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People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.
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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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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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As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.
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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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I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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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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I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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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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I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.
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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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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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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 like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
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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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I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
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