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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
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Film Producer
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Music Video Director
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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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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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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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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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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 dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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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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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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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 like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
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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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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 never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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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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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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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
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If you want reality take the bus.
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