David LaChapelle pushes his colours to new extremes while reinventing the vivid palette that is uniquely his.
David Lachapelle was born in Connecticut, north Carolina in 1968. He studied at the art student's league and north Carolina school of arts. at age of 19, Mr. LaChapelle went to New York where he met Andy Warhol. He began his photography career created by Warhol. David LaChapelle is a photographer who tends to create his own visionary world, rather than reproduce what's visible in the world, a photography style that can be compared to no one. David LaChapelle has evolved his photography into an idiosyncratic and highly personal combination of reportage and surrealism. Lachapelle is one of photography's brightest stars, bringing high intensity, larger than life images to the pages of magazines worldwide (as I-D, arena, the New York time magazine, rolling stones, vogue, the face, the London Sunday times and vanity fair) initially distinguished by his campy fixation with white-trash culture, LaChapelle is also known for his groundbreaking use of computer manipulation and futuristic fashion shoots and for placing Hollywood celebrities-- from Madonna, Uma Thurman, Elton john to drew Barrymore to the X-files' David Duchovny -- in wildly imaginative and often compromising erotically charged settings. LaChapelle's monstrosities are that breed of gaunt, blemishes human built and enslaved by heavy makeup, lighting and the glorifying voodoo of photographic attention.
