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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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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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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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We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the same thing, I used a lot of devices to catch the eye of people who have seen a lot of stuff, having worked in advertising and in editorial. I have learned to get someone to stop and look at something, that language.
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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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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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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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You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
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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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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'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
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I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
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There is nothing ugly in sexuality or in the body. It's human!
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I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
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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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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'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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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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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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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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