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
strong believe photographer
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
real thinking drawing
With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.
photograph wanted
I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.
kids games play
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!
eye attention candy
My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.
ideas want tools
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
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.
fashion careers people
In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
people want
I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
ideas museums magazines
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.
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…
style what-you-love happens
You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.
photography kids calling
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.