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
thinking challenges lines
It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.
beautiful jobs people
People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.
people photographer good-person
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
style what-you-love happens
You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
thinking color style
I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, “Well this is the style…
vegas towers eiffel-tower
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
artist done renaissance
Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.
fashion careers people
In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
ideas want tools
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
wall tired school
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.
fashion glamour mark
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation,
long people consistency
I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
circles outsiders scene
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.
light cameras minutes
The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.