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Heaven to Hell The third installment of LaChapelle’s trilogy “The only link between Andy Warhol and J-Lo.” —GQ, London, on David LaChapelle LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the long-awaited third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Packed with astonishing, color-saturated, and provocative images, those titles both became instant collector’s items and have since gone through multiple printings. Featuring almost twice as many images as its predecessors, LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is an explosive compilation of new work by the visionary photographer. Since the publication of Hotel LaChapelle, the strength of LaChapelle’s work lies in its ability to focus the lens of celebrity and fashion toward more pressing issues of societal concern. LaChapelle’s images — of the most famous faces on the planet, and marginalized figures like transsexual Amanda Lepore or the cast of his critically acclaimed social documentary Rize — call into question our relationship with gender, glamour, and status. Using his trademark baroque excess, LaChapelle inverts the consumption he appears to celebrate, pointing instead to apocalyptic consequences for humanity itself. While referencing and acknowledging diverse sources such as the Renaissance, art history, cinema, The Bible, pornography, and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal and epoch-defining visual language that holds up a mirror to our times. Sumptuously packaged in the trilogy's boxed hardcover format, LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is a must-have for anyone interested in contemporary photography. It is also keenly priced, especially for those who have coveted TASCHEN’s limited edition, LaChapelle, Artists & Prostitutes. The artist: Not yet out of high school, David LaChapelle was offered his first professional job by Andy Warhol to shoot for Interview magazine. His photography has been showcased in numerous galleries and museums, including Tony Shafrazi Gallery and Deitch Projects in New York, the Fahey-Klein Gallery in California, Camerawork in Germany, Sozzani and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Italy. His unfettered images of celebrity and contemporary pop culture have appeared on and between the covers of magazines such as Italian Vogue, French Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stoneand i-D. LaChapelle has also directed music videos for artists such as Moby, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and The Vines. His burgeoning interest in film saw him make the short documentary Krumped, an award-winner at Sundance from which he developed RIZE, the feature film released worldwide in 2005 to huge critical acclaim. American Photo recently ranked him as one of the top ten “Most Important People in Photography.” € 49.99 |
LaChapelle, Heaven to Hell Hardcover + Box, 27.8 x 35.5 cm, 344 pages € 49,90 |
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LaChapelle LaChapelle volgde de North Carolina School of the Arts en de School of the Arts in New York City. Zijn eerste professionele opdracht als fotograaf was voor Interview magazine, een kans die hij kreeg aangeboden door Andy Warhol. Zijn werken zijn uitgegeven in vier boeken, LaChapelle Land, Hotel LaChapelle en Heaven to Hell, en bevatten allebei sterke en bizarre portretten van beroemdheden. In 2006 werd Artists and Prostitutes uitgebracht, een boek met het hele oeuvre van LaChapelle. Dit boek kwam in een gelimiteerde opgave. Zijn eerste film Rize, een documentaire over het dansfenomeen krumping, beleefde zijn première tijdens Sundance in 2005 en werd in dezelfde zomer uitgebracht in de bioscopen. Recentelijk regisseerde hij een advertentie voor H&M's nieuwe denimcollectie; deze commercial was gebaseerd op het verhaal van Romeo & Julia. Zijn naam stond in het telefoonboek van Paris Hilton, dat in 2004 op het internet uitlekte. Boeken LaChapelle Land - Uitgebracht in 1996 Hotel LaChapelle - Uitgebracht in 1999 Artists and Prostitutes - Uitgebracht in 2006 (gelimiteerde oplage) Heaven to Hell - Uitgebracht in 2006 |
Heaven to Heel, LaChapelle Land en Hotel LaChapelle vormen een trilogie, allen in luxe doos verpakt. Op de typische LaChapelle-wijze gefotografeerde figuren veelal uit film en showbizz. Hotel LaChapelle takes the reader another step deeper into the shocking world of David LaChapelle. Each full-color page is metaphorically, a room in a crazy hotel. Hotel LaChapelle is full of neon, sex, and strange people—and the result is a beachy postcard from that nuns-with-guns place in the sun that could only exist in the vision of David LaChapelle. Hotel LaChapelle will be luxuriously printed and handsomely, colorfully boxed. Boasting more than 158 full-color images, it is a passport to this groundbreaking photographer's unique imagination. His subjects include the hottest celebrities to today: Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Tori Amos, Uma Thurman, Marilyn Manson, Daniel Day Lewis, Mike Myers, Pamela Anderson, and many others. Spectacular in style as in content, Hotel LaChapelle promises to be the wildest, freshest volume of photography of the next few years. LaChapelle Land: Deluxe, larger-format reissue of this collectible, long out-of-print book. The marriage of David LaChapelle's vivid, high-octane images with graphic artist, Tadanori Yokoo's super-saturated designs, is an astonishing showcase for the lollipop giddiness of the original. LaChapelle exaggerates the artificiality of fame and Hollywood culture in a head-on collision of color, plastic, and whimsy. His photographs challenge ideas of taste and celebrity, while taking us on a roller coaster ride through a hyper-sensationalized galaxy. L'il Kim becomes the ultimate status symbol, tattooed in the Louis Vuitton pattern. Madonna rises from pink waters as a mystical dragon princess. Pamela Anderson hatches out of an egg. The acclaimed Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century recognizes David LaChapelle's 1996 LaChapelle Land as its 101st book. |