HOTEL LACHAPELLE - David Lachapelle
Excerpt from David LaChapelle's afterword:
"I decided to title this book Hotel LaChapelle because almost all the photos in it were conceived and shot in hotels. I spend most of my time in hotel rooms. I've gotten so used to it that I've set up my apartment like a hotel room, so I don't feel far from home when I'm at home. And when people come to do a photo shoot with me, they let themselves go, as if they were checking into a hotel. When you stay at a hotel, you live for a day in a place where you don't normally live. This feeling can also apply to photography.
The great thing about hotel rooms is the clean sheets. Every day, no matter how dirty you've been all day, you get clean sheets. For me, coming back to my room at the end of the day is like entering a white, ironed cocoon that welcomes me with indulgence. The cotton hotel sheets offer a sterility that makes all my daily transgressions disappear, as if cancelled out. I can then fall asleep peacefully.
Waking up in a hotel room is a different story. Somehow, all the possibilities of a new start, a new life, that the hotel room promised at check-in, vanish with the first flicker of the fluorescent lamp in the bathroom. That's when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize I'm about to start a new day. That's when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize I'm about to start a new day."
Published by Calloway Editions, Inc. 1999
168 pages
28 x 37cm
ISBN: 0821226363
Excerpt from David LaChapelle's afterword:
"I decided to title this book Hotel LaChapelle because almost all the photos in it were conceived and shot in hotels. I spend most of my time in hotel rooms. I've gotten so used to it that I've set up my apartment like a hotel room, so I don't feel far from home when I'm at home. And when people come to do a photo shoot with me, they let themselves go, as if they were checking into a hotel. When you stay at a hotel, you live for a day in a place where you don't normally live. This feeling can also apply to photography.
The great thing about hotel rooms is the clean sheets. Every day, no matter how dirty you've been all day, you get clean sheets. For me, coming back to my room at the end of the day is like entering a white, ironed cocoon that welcomes me with indulgence. The cotton hotel sheets offer a sterility that makes all my daily transgressions disappear, as if cancelled out. I can then fall asleep peacefully.
Waking up in a hotel room is a different story. Somehow, all the possibilities of a new start, a new life, that the hotel room promised at check-in, vanish with the first flicker of the fluorescent lamp in the bathroom. That's when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize I'm about to start a new day. That's when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize I'm about to start a new day."
Published by Calloway Editions, Inc. 1999
168 pages
28 x 37cm
ISBN: 0821226363
Excerpt from David LaChapelle's afterword:
"I decided to title this book Hotel LaChapelle because almost all the photos in it were conceived and shot in hotels. I spend most of my time in hotel rooms. I've gotten so used to it that I've set up my apartment like a hotel room, so I don't feel far from home when I'm at home. And when people come to do a photo shoot with me, they let themselves go, as if they were checking into a hotel. When you stay at a hotel, you live for a day in a place where you don't normally live. This feeling can also apply to photography.
The great thing about hotel rooms is the clean sheets. Every day, no matter how dirty you've been all day, you get clean sheets. For me, coming back to my room at the end of the day is like entering a white, ironed cocoon that welcomes me with indulgence. The cotton hotel sheets offer a sterility that makes all my daily transgressions disappear, as if cancelled out. I can then fall asleep peacefully.
Waking up in a hotel room is a different story. Somehow, all the possibilities of a new start, a new life, that the hotel room promised at check-in, vanish with the first flicker of the fluorescent lamp in the bathroom. That's when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize I'm about to start a new day. That's when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize I'm about to start a new day."
Published by Calloway Editions, Inc. 1999
168 pages
28 x 37cm
ISBN: 0821226363
