DAVID LACHAPELLE
DAVID LACHAPELLE
David LaChapelle is known internationally for his surreal, vibrant and cinematic photographs, which are a reflection of pop culture throughout the decades. With his conceptual methodology, the subjects become characters in a meticulously orchestrated landscape, often embracing a profound social message.
Over the course of his 30+ year career, LaChapelle continues to be inspired by everything from art history to street culture, from the metaphysical to the immortal, projecting an image of twenty-first-century pop culture through his work that is both celebratory and critical. Always aware of larger social implications, LaChapelle’s work transcends the material world. He is quite simply the only photographic artist working today who has been able to successfully maintain a formidable impact in the realm of celebrity photography alongside the notoriously discerning contemporary art intelligentsia.
David LaChapelle is known internationally for his surreal, vibrant and cinematic photographs, which are a reflection of pop culture throughout the decades. With his conceptual methodology, the subjects become characters in a meticulously orchestrated landscape, often embracing a profound social message.
Over the course of his 30+ year career, LaChapelle continues to be inspired by everything from art history to street culture, from the metaphysical to the immortal, projecting an image of twenty-first-century pop culture through his work that is both celebratory and critical. Always aware of larger social implications, LaChapelle’s work transcends the material world. He is quite simply the only photographic artist working today who has been able to successfully maintain a formidable impact in the realm of celebrity photography alongside the notoriously discerning contemporary art intelligentsia.
“My work is about finding beauty in the banal and making the ordinary extraordinary. I want to enlarge the idea of reality and help people feel that anything’s possible”
“David exists in this new territory, in the collapse between vanguard and pop culture, and it’s a very interesting space…you see that he’s really an important part of image making in our time.”
DAVID LACHAPELLE
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