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"Of all the photographers inventing surreal images, it is Mr. LaChapelle who has the potential to be the genre's Magritte."

Richard Avedon

David LaChapelle. Artists & Prostitutes

Edition of 2,500

Hardcover in clamshell box, 13.6 x 19.7 in., 43.33 lb, 698 pages

US$ 4,500

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Celebrity surrealism, capitalist realism, this SUMO publication captures the high spectacle and pop saturation of photographer David LaChapelle. The massive 698-page tome includes the artist’s most memorable work, from portraits of Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson to Tupac Shakur and Elizabeth Taylor. With only 2,500 copies worldwide, numbered and signed by LaChapelle, Artists & Prostitutes is a contemporary sensation with all the grandeur of a Renaissance masterpiece.

Limited Edition of 2,500 copies, numbered and signed by David LaChapelle

The Fellini of Photography

Limited edition of 2,500 copies worldwide, numbered and signed by David LaChapelle!

Who is the greatest star of star photography? It’s the inimitable David LaChapelle, the photographer whose singular style is perfectly unmistakable. He has photographed personalities as diverse as Tupac Shakur, Madonna, Amanda Lepore, Eminem, Philip Johnson, Lance Armstrong, Pamela Anderson, Lil’ Kim, Uma Thurman, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Paris Hilton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hillary Clinton, Muhammad Ali, and Britney Spears, to name just a few. Once called the Fellini of photography, LaChapelle has worked for the most prestigious international publications and has been the subject of exhibitions in both commercial galleries and leading public institutions around the world.

Celebrating the visionary LaChapelle’s truly extraordinary photography, this 698-page, XL-sized book is packed cover-to-cover with vibrant full-bleed images; the best of his entire career to date. Bursting at the seams with spectacle and drama, and saturated with colors that only LaChapelle can realize, this limited edition pays tribute to the most daring and ambitious photographer in the history of portraiture.

All color illustrations are color-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today, which provides unequaled intensity and color range.

The artist

David LaChapelle was offered his first professional job by Andy Warhol to shoot for Interview magazine. Since then his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including Tony Shafrazi Gallery and Deitch Projects in New York, and London's Barbican. His images have appeared in countless magazines including Vogue Italia, French Vogue, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and i-D. In recent years he has expanded into music videos, live theatrical events and documentary film-making.