One of photography's brightest stars, David LaChapelle has evolved his photography into an idiosyncratic and highly personal combination of reportage and surrealism.
Born in Connecticut, North Carolina in 1968, LaChapelle studied at the art student’s league and North Carolina school of arts. At the age of 19, he went to New York where he worked for Andy Warhol and began his photography career.
A photography style that can be compared to no other, his highly intensive work has been published in many worldwide magazines of i-D, Arena, The New York Times magazine, Rolling Stones, Vogue, The Face, The London Sunday Times and Vanity Fair. Initially distinguished by his campy fixation with white-trash culture, LaChapelle is also known for his groundbreaking use of computer manipulation and futuristic fashion shoots.
Rather than reproduce what is already present, LaChapelle tends to create his own visionary world. His subjects are usually gaunt, blemishless human built and enslaved by heavy makeup, lighting and the glorifying voodoo of photographic attention e.g. models, transsexuals, celebrities. He has worked with many Hollywood celebrities, ranging from Madonna, Uma Thurman, Elton john to Drew Barrymore to the X-files' David Duchovny - placing each in wildly imaginative and often compromising erotically charged settings.
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