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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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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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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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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 love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.
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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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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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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
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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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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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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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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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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 wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.
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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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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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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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If you want reality take the bus.
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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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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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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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