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Home *Beefcake Babylon, *Dragolicious, Arts, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Books We Love, Fashion, Gay 101, Gift Ideas, Living, Photography, Queer ArtsIf You Really Loved Me, You’d Buy Me This $2,500 Taschen David LaChapelle Book…

If You Really Loved Me, You’d Buy Me This $2,500 Taschen David LaChapelle Book…

December 11, 2018• byMichael Strangeways

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Here’s a gift that any arty queer photography fashionista would adore….Taschen’s gorgy two volume box set of famed photographer David LaChapelle’s work featuring images from his long career dating back to the 80s and his discovery by Warhol.

And, it’s a STEAL at $2,500!!!! 

(You get signed LaChapelle prints with this set…)

If you can’t QUITE afford that, I would settle for buying each volume separately…that would only set you back $70 a piece!

Go here to snag and more info below:

This Art Edition gathers David LaChapelle’s new two-volume collection in a luxurious box set, accompanied by a portfolio of three signed prints. His first publications in a decade, Lost + Found and Good News narrate the photographer’s career through his own lens; the first tome traces LaChapelle’s rise in the heat of 1980s New York, while the second explores his spiritual and artistic renaissance in 2006–2016. Together, they constitute an unparalleled visual map to the inner workings of a unique creative mind.

Art Edition of 500 copies, each with three prints signed by David LaChapelle.

“Mr. LaChapelle is certain to influence the work of a new generation of photographers… Of all the photographers inventing surreal images, it is Mr. LaChapelle who has the potential to be the genre’s Magritte.”

—Richard Avedon 

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Nurtured under Warhol’s wing in the ’80s, hailed as the Fellini of photography in the ’90s, emerging from a retreat in rural Hawaii in the noughties, David LaChapelle has spent the past three decades shooting some of the most luminous stars of his generation and transforming the realms of fashion and celebrity, sex and style with his own distinct, unorthodox aesthetics.

In this exclusive Art Edition, the artist’s first publication in a decade, TASCHEN presents two defining periods in LaChapelle’s career: his rise to stardom in the white heat of ’80s New York, and his creative renaissance following his “disappearance” from the fashion scene, post-2006.

Volume 1, Lost + Found, traces LaChapelle’s emergence through Warhol’s Interviewmagazine and his ascent to the status of global icon in the fashion world. Meanwhile, Good News explores LaChapelle’s spiritual and artistic revival following his retreat to a rural idyll in West Maui, Hawaii.

This Art Edition represents a typographical map to a dizzyingly creative mind, presenting over 300 unpublished works to trace LaChapelle’s career through his very own lens. Along the way, we encounter such high-voltage subjects as Miley Cyrus, Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Tupac, and Naomi Campbell, as well as LaChapelle’s stylistic experimentation throughout the years, spanning classical, Baroque, and Pop art elements. We follow his ascent to the apex of glamour and his subsequent thematic exploration of consumerism, redemption, and spirituality.

From the controversial Rape of Africa (2009) series and the Kardashian-heavy Black Friday at Mall of the Apocalypse (2013) to the classic Angels, Saints and Martyrs (1984) and the brand new Paradise (2017), this is an intimate tour through LaChapelle’s thematic evolution, narrated by the world-class photographer himself. Throughout, we discover an unrivaled critical and creative eye, in thrall to hyper-polished sexuality, as much as to the profound questions of human existence.

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Art Edition of 500 copies, each with three prints signed by David LaChapelle
Archangel Uriel, 1985 (30.7 x 40.5 cm / 12 x 16 in.)
She Stood by Him till the End His Loving Friend. Elizabeth Taylor, 2002 (40.5 x 26.4 cm / 16 x 10 in.)
Earth Laughs in Flowers. Rite of Spring, 2008–2011 (31 x 40.5 cm / 12.2 x 16 in.)

Also available as two unlimited volumes: Lost + Found, Part I and Good News, Part II.

The photographer

David LaChapelle was offered his first professional job by Andy Warhol to shoot for Interview magazine. Since then his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including Tony Shafrazi Gallery and Deitch Projects in New York, and London’s Barbican. His images have appeared in countless magazines including Vogue Italia, French Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and i-D. In recent years he has expanded into music videos, live theatrical events and documentary film-making.

 

David LaChapelle. Lost and Found – Good News, Art Edition
Edition of 500
Hardcover, 2 vols. in a box with fold-outs, 10.9 x 14 in., 554 pages;
with three prints on Canson Baryt paper,
each numbered and signed by David LaChapelle

US$ 2,500

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About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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