Studio LaChapelle New Website

And while we're in the neighborhood of David LaChapelle, his new website is up and it's a magical-magical place for anyone who's a fan. They had a splash-page type website for a while, so it's good to see that his work is now again available for us to see. 

Also, I couldn't resist posting this photograph from Mariah's 2005 Def Jam campaign (which I hadn't seen before).

www.lachapellestudio.com

David LaChapelle + Lady Gaga

 

As I previously mentioned, I am a huge fan of David LaChapelle, actually I just had someone go get me the new issue of Flaunt and send it to me from Chicago, (thanks Yiani, you see, there's no Flaunt where I am...) because it features  series of amazing images by LaChapelle. So, you see, a LaChapelle + Gaga project was something that was bound to attract me, and inevitably end up on here...

Good ol' LaChapelle, awesome new Gaga.

David LaChapelle Renders Michael Jackson

David LaChapelle strikes again... and after this he chose to move to a totally different genre.

David LaChapelle to Interview Magazine: I used a Michael Jackson impersonator and spent weeks and weeks moving pixels around to create the face of Michael Jackson circa 1990. It's a photograph, but it's a not a portrait, so it sort of redefines what a photograph is. We spent so much time going back in and putting in details and flaws, and there's no question that it's Michael Jackson. But he never posed for it. It's a very strange concept. In a way, it's going back to painting. 

There some very interesting material in the Q&A over at the Interview Magazine Blog.