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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...
Category
1990s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
C Print
$24,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$36,000 Sale Price
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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
Materials
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