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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
David LaChapelle
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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
Fashion Photographer
Film Director
Film Producer
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Music Video Director
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Fairfield
Connecticut
David Lachapelle
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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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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 believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
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What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!
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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 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 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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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 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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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'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 work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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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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Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.
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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 like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
David LaChapelle
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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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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