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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.

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
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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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My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
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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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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 love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.
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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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The adornment of the body is a human need.
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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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