David LaChapelle: Lost and Found & Good News (Art Edition)

Growing up under Andy Warhol's wings in the 1980s, hailed as the Fellini of photography in the 1990s, emerging from a retreat in rural Hawaii in the 1990s, David LaChapelle has spent the past three decades photographing some of the brightest stars of his generation, transforming the realm of fashion and celebrity, sex and style with his own unorthodox aesthetic.

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 New York in the 1980s and his creative renaissance following his "disappearance" from the fashion world, after 2006. Part 1, Lost + Found, follows LaChapelle's rise through Warhol's magazine Interview and his rise to world icon status in the fashion world. Meanwhile, Good News explores LaChapelle's spiritual and artistic revival after his retreat to a rural idyll in West Maui, Hawaii.

This art edition is a typographic map of a dizzyingly creative mind, with more than 300 unpublished works to follow LaChapelle's career through his own lens.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 experiments over the years, which include classical, baroque and pop art elements. We follow his climb to the top of glamour and his subsequent thematic exploration of consumerism, redemption and spirituality.

From the controversial series Rape of Africa (2009) and the Kardashian 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 of LaChapelle's thematic evolution, narrated by the world-class photographer himself. Everywhere we discover an unparalleled critical and creative eye, captivated by both hyper-polished sexuality and the profound questions of human existence.

Art Edition
Numbered and signed by David LaChapelle, the books are in a box with fold-out sheets and three prints of his work on Canson Baryt paper.

Specifications
Title: David LaChapelle: Lost and Found & Good News
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 278 x 355 x 18 mm
Size: 554 pages
Weight: 10.15 kg
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783836520287
Art Edition: 500 numbered and signed copies

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