David LaChapelle. Controversial. Explosive. Thought-provoking.
Arguably the world's most famous living photographer, he has
been breaking all the rules for over twenty years.
This book is the last chapter in a trilogy that started with the New
York Times bestseller LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with
Hotel LaChapelle (1999), one of the most sought after and collected
photography books of all time.
Celebrated as the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has photographed
personalities as diverse as Tupac Shakur, Andy Warhol,
Madonna, Amanda Lepore, Lance Armstrong, Eminem, Pamela
Anderson, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Lil' Kim, Hillary Clinton,
Philip Johnson, Paris Hilton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman,
Kanye West, and Britney Spears, to name just a few.
While referencing and acknowledging such diverse sources as
Renaissance art, cinema, the Bible, pornography, and the new
globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal
and epoch-defining visual language that holds a mirror to the face
of our times, reflecting back both the sacred and profane.
