David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, film director, and artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth11 March 1963
CityFairfield, CT
CountryUnited States of America
real shopping buying-things
You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.
entertainment provocative entertaining
I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
mother children grief
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
thinking editors bullshit
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.
years ideas wanted
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.
opportunity given easier
For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.
way bigger-than-life worship
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.
ideas world fantastic
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.
thinking body flesh
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
heaven clients hell
Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.
photography lying people
People say photographs don't lie, mine do.
want photograph interest
I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.
art thinking differences
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.
eye trying magazines
My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster.