David LaChapelle (born 1963)
First I Need Your Hand, Then Forever Can Begin, 2009
c-print
24 x 24 inches: image
61 x 61 cm
32.5 x 32.5 inches: frame
82.6 x 82.6 cm
Edition 17/30
signature label and certificate attached to back of frame. American artists David LaChapelle began his career at Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine and has since become a well-known fashion, music, and fine art photographer. Inspired by everything from art history to street culture, his compositions are characterized by an aesthetic of hyper-realism and highly saturated color palette.
LaChapelle's striking images have been on the covers and pages of both Italian and French Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone, and i-D, and he has photographed personalities as diverse as Angelina Jolie, Alexander McQueen, Uma Thurman, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Elton John, Jeff Koons, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hillary Clinton, and Muhammad Ali, to name a few. LaChapelle has had record-breaking solo exhibitions at Barbican Museum, London; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Museo del Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Musée de La Monnaie, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. Recent acquisitions include Los Angeles County Museum of Art; National Portrait Gallery, London; and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

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