Hasta La Ideas

CAN IT BE? A photo from David LaChapelle’s new book

“People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they’ll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.”

–David LaChapelle, whose latest crop of color-saturated apocalypses and glam pop deities is collected in LaChapelle Heaven to Hell, out this month from Taschen

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