About David Lachapelle



David Lachapelle


"David LaChapelle" (born March eleven, 1963 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States) may be a famous photographers and director who works within the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, distinctive and sometimes humorous vogue. Known to be major player within the fashion photography world. LaChapelle attended the North Carolina faculty of the humanities and therefore the faculty of Visual Arts in big apple town. His initial photograph was of his single mother, Helga LaChapelle, on a family vacation in Puerto Rico. She wore a bikini and held a martini glass on a balcony. From then on he was captivated with photography.


His initial skilled job as a photographer was offered by Andy Warhol for Interview magazine. LaChapelle has four printed books of his pictures, as well as "LaChapelle Land" and "Hotel LaChapelle," each containing vivid and bizarre portraits of celebrities like Marilyn Manson, Drew Barrymore and Uma Thurman.

LaChapelle directed singer Elton John's show, "The Red Piano" at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace, that premiered in 2004. The show options in depth use of video technology on an LED screen backing the show that, when built, was promoted because the largest and brightest of all time. many of John's songs throughout the performance are in the course of short films by LaChapelle.

LaChapelle's film "Rize," a documentary on the krumping type of dance that invaded South Central la, premiered at Sundance in 2005 and was released theatrically that summer.

He was the first director of Madonna's video for the 2005 hit Hung Up however fell apart as a result of artistic variations with Madonna.

He has directed advertisements for major stores. In 2006 he directed "Romeo and Juliet," a 5-minute industrial for H&M's new denim whole and "Tis the Season to be beautiful," a humorous Christmas industrial for UK retailer Boots cluster showing terribly glamorous, self-indulgent ladies doing comparatively mundane Christmas tasks. additionally within the UK, he directed the surreal Lost trailers for Channel four, show the forged dancing in Twenties costume among the burning wreckage on the beach. additionally to the present, he directed Channel 4's promotion of Desperate Housewives season one.

It is additionally known that David LaChapelle is slated to try and do the quilt design for Courtney Love's new album, in line with Love's posts on her web site MoonWashedRose.com.

In September 2007 an anonymous supply told the big apple Post that LaChapelle refues to figure with prime pop divas as well as, Gwen Stefani, Madonna and Christina Aguilera.

These are the photographs by David LaChapelle :

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Gisele (Diary of a Housewife)

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Def Jam Records-MariahCarey
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Sports-Animals

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