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“I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.”

Quote by David LaChapelle

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David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle, born on March 11, 1963, is a renowned photographer from the United States. His work is known for its unique visual style and sense of humor, adept at capturing social phenomena and human nature. LaChapelle's photographs have gained acclaim in both the art and fashion worlds, and his photography books and exhibitions have been widely attended around the globe. more

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“I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.”

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“Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed so we can worship them - so they are worthy of our worship.”

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“The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.”

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“I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.”

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“I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.”

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“The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.”

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Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

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“Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.”

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“As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.”

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“Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.”

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Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

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“... dissatisfaction with one's self and dissatisfaction with the world - is necessary - it is one of the prime things that keeps the artist going on - that drives him - happiness, as such, must come in between times, as best it can.”

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