"The only link between Andy Warhol and J-Lo." -GQ, London on David LaChapelleLaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Packed with astonishing, color-saturated, and provocative images, those titles both became instant collector's items and have since gone through multiple printings. Featuring almost twice as many images as its predecessors, LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is an explosive compilation of ...
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"The only link between Andy Warhol and J-Lo." -GQ, London on David LaChapelleLaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land (1996) and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle (1999). Packed with astonishing, color-saturated, and provocative images, those titles both became instant collector's items and have since gone through multiple printings. Featuring almost twice as many images as its predecessors, LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is an explosive compilation of new work by the visionary photographer. Since the publication of Hotel LaChapelle, the strength of LaChapelle's work lies in its ability to focus the lens of celebrity and fashion toward more pressing issues of societal concern. LaChapelle's images-of the most famous faces on the planet, and marginalized figures like transsexual Amanda Lepore or the cast of his critically acclaimed social documentary Rize-call into question our relationship with gender, glamour, and status. Using his trademark baroque excess, LaChapelle inverts the consumption he appears to celebrate, pointing instead to apocalyptic consequences for humanity itself. While referencing and acknowledging diverse sources such as the Renaissance, art history, cinema, The Bible, pornography, and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal and epoch-defining visual language that holds up a mirror to our times. This popular hardcover edition of LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is a must-have for anyone interested in contemporary photography. It is also keenly priced, especially for those who have coveted TASCHEN's limited edition, LaChapelle, Artists & Prostitutes.
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Add this copy of Heaven to Hell to cart. $105.00, very good condition, Sold by AARDVARK RARE BOOKS, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Taschen.
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Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus Dustjacket. Large Quarto, Glossy pictorial paper-covered boards, housed in matching jacket. Tiny bit of wear to one or two corners, but hardly discernible. Heavy book. No international shipping. Originally trained as a fine artist, LaChapelle turned to photography as a teenager, first working professionally for Andy Warhold's INTERVIEW Magazine, and then moving on to Vanity Fair, Paris Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and more. This volume full of staged scenes from the now antiquated conventions of Pop culture, to the abiding outer limits of the late capitalist imagination: there are blondes; there is bo-tox; breast augmentation; irony; ennui; the sundry exhaustions of sex in all of its poorly imagined possibilities--all set against the backdrop of the comforts of home, through a lens of perpetually glutted sensibilities, conspicuously devoid of the slightest drop of wonder, save that conjured up by wildly-clothed (or not) thighs splayed akimbo.
Add this copy of Heaven to Hell to cart. $160.00, like new condition, Sold by Shaker Mill Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from West Stockbridge, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Taschen.
