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Hotel LaChapelle
David LaChapelle
Hardcover
First Edition 1999
Coffee Book Table
Rare one of a kind.Great Collector find in South Africa.
"David LaChapelle is as creatively fertile as 30s rule-breaker Salvador Dali.He delights in taking sex and voyeurism and giving them an outrageous, unmistakably contemporary twist." - Ingrid Sischy,
I expected to see a variation of artist Edward Hopper's voyeuristic subway rider views into passing hotel and apartment windows. That expectation was totally wrong. Although feeling slightly mislead by the box cover picture, I wasn't disappointed in this book
A lot of the pictures in this book exist only because there was no interference...Which is a big reason to do a collection in a book...A book is a permanent record." As usual, LaChapelle has produced some more wonderful visual puns, satires, surreal environments and political parody. And once again, most of the subjects in his portraits and scenes are like colorful cartoon characters or kinky, shiny plastic-looking models from a weird, far-side wax museum. Even the most beautiful women in the world who are some of his subjects seem to have been photographed in such a way as they aren't the slightest bit sexy or desirable even when scantily dressed in lingerie or completely nude. Despite that curious fact, this is still an excellent photography book. It's much better than it's immediate predecessor "LaChapelle Land." After checking out LaChapelle's website I've decided he may be in the middle of "pulling a Stanley Kubrick." I can easily see him using his current visualizing and set designing skills to make motion pictures. Stanley Kubrick was also a successful teenage still photographer who worked for LOOK Magazine before he became a motion picture legend. I can easily see LaChapelle eventually making films of the caliber of Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange", "Dr. Strangelove", "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "The Shining." He is well known to many film celebrities and their agents and staffs. He already has access to many of the actors in the cinema world and that would be extremely helpful to a would-be film director.