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
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!
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.
art school high-school
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
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.
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.
body needs humans
The adornment of the body is a human need.
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.
dream kids fighter
My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
ideas matter use
I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
body needs materialistic
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.