Wednesday, 30 September 2009

David LaChapelle



David LaChapelle was born March 11th 1963 in farefield Connecticut. He is a photographer and a video director, he works in the fields of fashion, music and art he is noted for his surreal and sometimes humorous style.


He has recieved many awards for his works ranging from ''Best new photographer of the year'' in 1995 to ''GLAADs Vito Russo Award for outstanding contributions for fighting against homophobia''. He has also had four books published these books are all of the photographs that he has taken. All four books contain vivid sureal images of celebrities.


The picture above is the one he took of Madonna and is featured in one of his books, he often uses editing techniques to improve and transform the look of his pictures in a very major way he will often add things that were never in the picture rather then just changing certain bits or just airbrushing something out.

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