DAVID
LACHAPELLE
PHOTOGRAPHS
6 June - 22 September 2002
kunsthauswien.com
foto: DAVID
LACHAPELLE
My House - New York, 1997
© David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle was born in Connecticut in 1968. He originally studied fine arts at North Carolina School of the Arts before moving to New York in the mid 1980s. There he met Andy Warhol and encountered Pop Art first-hand. He decided to become a photographer, eventually landings his first professional job at Warhol´s Interview magazine.
Throughout
the 1980s LaChapelle became well-known as a photographer in the New York
art world. In the early 1990s he began to take photographs of celebrities
and fashion for magazines such as Details and London´s The Face.
He developed a signature style, characterized by super-saturated colors
and the shocking poses and contexts in which he got celebrities and models
to appear. He has been photographing famous subjects and fashion for magazines
ever since. His images are now seen regularly in such publications as
Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, The London Sunday Times, i-D,
Flaunt, Arena, Interview, and Vanity Fair, among others. He is currently
under contract with
Vanity Fair. Selections of his work have been brought together in two
books,
LaChapelle Land (1996) and Hotel LaChapelle (1999), and exhibited in galleries
and museums internationally.
LaChapelle has done advertising campaigns for a variety of clients including Pepsi, Camel, Levi´s, Diesel Jeans, and recently the Got Milk? campaign. He has completed commercial projects and print advertisements for Armani Jeans and MTV, as well as commercials for Sprite, Comedy Central, and Citibank. He shot the entire print campaign for the MTV 2000 Video Awards, and has photographed numerous album covers and packages for such artists as Whitney Houston, No Doubt, Perry Farrell, Lil´ Kim, Elton John, and Madonna.
In addition to his still photography LaChapelle directs music videos for
select artists. His haunting video for Moby´s "Natural Blues"
featuring Moby as himself as an old man and
Christina Ricci as an angel, had a huge presence in the music video industry
in 2000. At the MTV Europe Music Awards, "Natural Blues" was
named Best Video of the year, the result of a popular vote of over 7 million
viewers. It was also nominated in the U.S., in the
MTV Video Awards´ "Best Male Artist" category, and for
best "Visionary Video" at the
VH-1/Vogue Fashion Awards. LaChapelle´s follow-up to "Natural
Blues", the video for
Elton John´s "This Traint Don´t Stop There Anymore"
with ´NSYNC´s Justin Timberlake as Elton in his Seventies
heyday, premiered on MTV in mid-January.
David LaChapelle divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.
A catalogue of the exhibition at the KunstHausWien will be available at the MuseumShop.
AWARDS
1995 Named
"Best New Photographer" by both French Photo and American Photo
magazines
1996 "Photographer
of the Year Award" at the VH-1 Fashion Awards; "Applied Photography
of the Year Award" from The International Center of Photography
1997 Art Directors Club Award for Best Book Design for LaChapelle Land
1998 Won
for Best "Cutting Edge Essay" and "Style Photography"
at Life magazine´s
Alfred Eisenstadt Awards for Magazine Photography (the Eisies)
1999 Honored
in the "Cover of the Year" category at the Eisies; placed second
on
CNN´s list of "20 to Watch in 2000"
2000 Won "Best Video" for Moby´s "Natural Blues" at the MTV Europe Music Awards
EXHIBITIONS
STALEY-WISE
GALLERY - "LACHAPELLE LAND"
New York - November 8 through November 30, 1996
GALLERIA
PHOTOLOGY - "LACHAPELLE LAND"
Milan, Italy - March 7 through April 30, 1997
PARCO GALLERY
- "LACHAPELLE LAND"
Tokyo, Japan - March 30 through April 15, 1997
WHITNEY MUSEUM
- "THE WARHOL LOOK / GLAMOUR STYLE FASHION" (Group Show)
New York - November 9, 1997 through January 18, 1998
BASS MUSEUM
- "FASHION AT THE BEACH" (Group Show)
Miami Beach, Florida - January 7, 1998 through January 3, 1999 (Traveling
show)
LES RENCONTRES
D´ARLES - "HOT FLASH"
Arles, France - July 5 through August 16, 1998
PALACIO POMBAL
- "HOT FLASH"
Lisbon, Portugal - September 17 through December 11, 1998
PALAZZO DELLE
ESPOSIZIONI - "HOTEL LACHAPELLE"
Rome, Italy - March 20 through May 24, 1999
TONY SHAFRAZI
GALLERY
New York - June 4 through September 15,1999 (Traveling exhibition)
FUNDAÇAO
ARMANDO ALVARES PENTEADO -
"FEMMES PLUS QUE FEMMES" (Group Show)
Sao Paolo, Brazil - May 4 through June 4, 2000
FAHEY/KLEIN
GALLERY
Los Angeles, California - May 25 through July 15, 2000 (Traveling exhibition)
BALDWIN GALLERY
Aspen, Colorado - December 29, 2000 through February 14, 2001 (Traveling
exhibition)
VILLA IMPERO
Bologna, Italy - May 5 through July 28, 2001 (Traveling exhibition)
CAMERA WORK
GALLERY
Berlin, Germany - September 7 through November 23, 2001 (Traveling exhibition)
GALLERIA
CARLA SOZZANI
Milan, Italy - September 26 through November 4, 2001