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What style of photography is David LaChapelle?

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What style of photography is David LaChapelle?
The style of David LaChapelle's photography is unique and unable to fit into one category. Some people consider his photography a form of Surrealism, while others classify it as hyper-real. He is especially well known for photographing celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Amanda Lepore. Shop a collection of David LaChapelle art on 1stDibs.
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Mythical Swans: Madonna, David LaChapelle
By David LaChapelle
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: David LaChapelle (1963) Title: Mythical Swans: Madonna, New York, Rolling Stone, 1998 Year: 1998 Medium: ​Digital colour coupler print Edition: 1/11 Size: 17 x 24 inches Cond...
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1990s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Original Absolut Outrageous Cocktails Perfect pop art poster
By David LaChapelle
Located in Spokane, WA
Original ABSOLUT OUTrageeous, Cocktails perfected pop art liquor poster. The archived linen is backed in excellent condition and ready to frame. The p...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Offset

'Sermon' (from Jesus is My Homeboy), David LaChapelle
By David LaChapelle
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: David LaChapelle (1963) Title: 'Sermon' (from Jesus is My Homeboy) Year: 2003 Medium: ​Chromogenic print Edition: 2/10 Size: 15 x 24 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist Literature: Paolo Bonacina and Marco Voena, Jesus is My Homeboy (Robilant + Voena, 2008), unpaginated. Notes: In Jesus is My Homeboy, David LaChapelle offers a contemporary interpretation of gospel parables in a sequence of six images: Anointing; Evidence of a Miraculous Event; Intervention; Loaves & Fishes; Sermon; and Last Supper. An avid admirer of Michelangelo and Caravaggio, LaChapelle was influenced by the Old Masters when composing his own tableaux, and imagined what their paintings might look like in a contemporary setting. LaChapelle’s Intervention depicts a modern-day Jesus as an advocate for the downtrodden, offering salvation to a prostitute. Likewise in Sermon, LaChapelle evokes the Sermon on the Mount, casting Jesus’s modern...
Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Color Photography

Materials

C Print

David LaChapelle American Jesus poster (Hand Signed by David LaChapelle)
By David LaChapelle
Located in New York, NY
This work was published for the exhibition, American Jesus, held 13 July - 18 September 2010 at Paul Kasmin, New York in cooperation with Fred Torres Colla...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset, Ink

Artists & Prostitutes
By David LaChapelle
Located in New York, NY
Limited Edition of 2,500 copies, numbered and signed by David LaChapelle Edition of 2,500 Hardcover in clamshell box, 13.6 x 19.7 in., 43.43 lb, 698 pages
Category

Early 2000s Surrealist Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

Nude Man and Woman in the Grass (White Rabbits)
By David LaChapelle
Located in New York, NY
Vintage gelatin silver print Signed, inscribed, and dated in pencil, verso This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Hired by Andy Warhol as a photographer f...
Category

1980s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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