HEAVEN TO HELL - David LaChapelle
Published in 2010, Heaven to Hell is the third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996), followed by the provocative Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Brimming with color-saturated images as astonishing as they were provocative, these two titles immediately became collector's items and went through numerous reprints. With almost twice as many images as the previous titles, this book is an explosive compilation of this visionary photographer's work. Since the publication ofHotel LaChapelle, the strength of the artist's work lies in his ability to focus the lens of the celebrity and fashion world on more pressing issues of general interest.
LaChapelle's photographs, from the world's most famous faces to more marginalized figures such as transsexual Amanda Lepore or the actors in his social documentary Rize, question our relationship to gender, glamour and social status. Exploiting his trademark baroque excess, LaChapelle reverses his apparent praise of consumerism, insisting instead on its apocalyptic consequences for humanity itself. While acknowledging the many diverse sources of inspiration to which he alludes, such as the Renaissance, art history, cinema, the Bible, pornography and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal visual language that speaks to our times and reflects the world in which we live.
Published by Taschen, 2006
26.8 cm x 34.7 cm, 343 pages, good condition
ISBN 978-3836522847
Published in 2010, Heaven to Hell is the third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996), followed by the provocative Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Brimming with color-saturated images as astonishing as they were provocative, these two titles immediately became collector's items and went through numerous reprints. With almost twice as many images as the previous titles, this book is an explosive compilation of this visionary photographer's work. Since the publication ofHotel LaChapelle, the strength of the artist's work lies in his ability to focus the lens of the celebrity and fashion world on more pressing issues of general interest.
LaChapelle's photographs, from the world's most famous faces to more marginalized figures such as transsexual Amanda Lepore or the actors in his social documentary Rize, question our relationship to gender, glamour and social status. Exploiting his trademark baroque excess, LaChapelle reverses his apparent praise of consumerism, insisting instead on its apocalyptic consequences for humanity itself. While acknowledging the many diverse sources of inspiration to which he alludes, such as the Renaissance, art history, cinema, the Bible, pornography and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal visual language that speaks to our times and reflects the world in which we live.
Published by Taschen, 2006
26.8 cm x 34.7 cm, 343 pages, good condition
ISBN 978-3836522847
Published in 2010, Heaven to Hell is the third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996), followed by the provocative Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Brimming with color-saturated images as astonishing as they were provocative, these two titles immediately became collector's items and went through numerous reprints. With almost twice as many images as the previous titles, this book is an explosive compilation of this visionary photographer's work. Since the publication ofHotel LaChapelle, the strength of the artist's work lies in his ability to focus the lens of the celebrity and fashion world on more pressing issues of general interest.
LaChapelle's photographs, from the world's most famous faces to more marginalized figures such as transsexual Amanda Lepore or the actors in his social documentary Rize, question our relationship to gender, glamour and social status. Exploiting his trademark baroque excess, LaChapelle reverses his apparent praise of consumerism, insisting instead on its apocalyptic consequences for humanity itself. While acknowledging the many diverse sources of inspiration to which he alludes, such as the Renaissance, art history, cinema, the Bible, pornography and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal visual language that speaks to our times and reflects the world in which we live.
Published by Taschen, 2006
26.8 cm x 34.7 cm, 343 pages, good condition
ISBN 978-3836522847
