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Excerpt from David LaChapelle's afterword:
“I decided to call this book *Hotel LaChapelle* because almost all the photos in it were conceived and taken in hotels. I spend most of my time in hotel rooms. I’ve gotten so used to them that I’ve furnished 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 spend a day living in a place where you don’t usually live. That feeling can also apply to photography.
The best thing about hotel rooms is the fresh sheets. Every day, even if you’ve been out and about all day, you get fresh sheets. For me, coming back to my room at the end of the day is like stepping into a white, freshly ironed cocoon that welcomes me with kindness. The cotton hotel sheets offer a sense of purity that makes all my daily transgressions disappear, as if they were erased. Then I can fall asleep peacefully.
Waking up in a hotel room is a different story. Somehow, all the possibilities of a fresh start, of a new life, that the hotel room promised at check-in, vanish the moment the fluorescent light in the bathroom flickers on. That’s when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize that 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 call this book *Hotel LaChapelle* because almost all the photos in it were conceived and taken in hotels. I spend most of my time in hotel rooms. I’ve gotten so used to them that I’ve furnished 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 spend a day living in a place where you don’t usually live. That feeling can also apply to photography.
The best thing about hotel rooms is the fresh sheets. Every day, even if you’ve been out and about all day, you get fresh sheets. For me, coming back to my room at the end of the day is like stepping into a white, freshly ironed cocoon that welcomes me with kindness. The cotton hotel sheets offer a sense of purity that makes all my daily transgressions disappear, as if they were erased. Then I can fall asleep peacefully.
Waking up in a hotel room is a different story. Somehow, all the possibilities of a fresh start, of a new life, that the hotel room promised at check-in, vanish the moment the fluorescent light in the bathroom flickers on. That’s when I look at my greenish reflection in the mirror and realize that I’m about to start a new day.”
Published by Calloway Editions, Inc. 1999
168 pages
28 x 37cm
ISBN: 0821226363
