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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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 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 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 thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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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'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want reality take the bus.
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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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