In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
David LaChapelleThen I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum โ someoneโs private museum.
David LaChapelleI didnโt see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didnโt make those boundaries. If someone wants to think itโs art, thatโs great, but Iโll let history decide.
David LaChapelleI went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
David LaChapelleI think that the world is really in very dark ages. In America this could have never been showed, we are even more lost over there than in Europe. We are very lost!
David LaChapelleAs you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.
David LaChapelle