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David LaChapelle's eye-popping works on display at New York City's swanky Fotografiska Museum
Photographer David LaChapelle has been blasting eye-popping, color-saturated, celebrity-studded photographs out into the world since Andy Warhol first hired him on at Interview Magazine in the 1980s.
LaChapelle, 59, had run away from his North Carolina home at just 15 and found work as a busboy at the notorious Studio 54, where he watched celebrities cavort and carry on with famous abandon. Though his parents eventually fetched him back home, Chapelle returned to New York City at 18 and called on those days at Studio 54 to inspire the innovative art he produced.
'I like to see celebrities behaving in front of my camera the way they did at Studio 54. They were wild,' LaChapelle told Newsweek in 1996. 'Caution was thrown to the disco wind machine.'
Currently on display through January 8 at Fotografiska New York is 'make BELIEVE' - a retrospective of LaChapelle's explosive 40-year career seen through over 150 works.
The exhibition includes scores of photos of celebrities from 1984 to today, including Andy Warhol himself, Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, and Tupac.
LaChapelle's 'David Bowie: Self Preservation,' shot in Los Angeles in 1995
'My Own Marilyn,' shot in New York in 2002. LaChapelle channels both Marilyn Monroe and Andy Warhol in the photo
LaChapelle's 'Britney Spears: I'm Not Your Toy,' shot in Louisiana in 1999
LaChapelle's 'Mary Magdalene: Abiding Lamentation,' featuring Kim Kardashian in Los Angeles in 2018
LaChapelle's 'Tupac: Becoming Clean,' shot in Los Angeles in 1996
LaChapelle's 'Angelina Jolie: Lusty Spring' shot in Los Angeles in 2001
'Archangel Michael: And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer' featuring Michael Jackson shot in Hawaii in 2009
'Andy Warhol: Last Sitting' shot in New York in 1986. Warhol gave LaChapelle his first serious start in photography
LaChapelle's 'Kanye West: Passion of the Christ' shot in Los Angeles in 2006
'Lizzo: Ottoman Empire' shot in Los Angeles in 2019
'Lady Gaga: Could You Fix Me if I Broke' taken in Los Angeles in 2009
'Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia' shot in Los Angeles in 2020
'Doja Cat: Gone With the Wind' photographed in Los Angeles in 2021
'Lana Del Rey: Parade Float' shot in Los Angeles in 2017
LaChapelle's 'Death by Hamburger' photographed in Los Angeles in 2001
'After the Deluge: Statue' shot in Los Angeles in 2007
LaChapelle's 'Chanel on Ice' photographed in 1997 in Oregon
'Behold' photographed in Hawaii in 2015
'When Bobo Went Mad' shot in Paris in 1995
LaChapelle's 'Gas: BP' shot in Hawaii in 2012