David LaChapelle valuation
American photographer and director known for his saturated, art-historical fashion and celebrity images.
David LaChapelle (born 1963) grew up in Connecticut and North Carolina and studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
What a work by David LaChapelle is worth
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Bio
David LaChapelle (born 1963) grew up in Connecticut and North Carolina and studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts. As a teenager he met Andy Warhol, who hired him to photograph for Interview magazine, and he went on to work for Rolling Stone, The Face, Vanity Fair, GQ, i-D and the Italian and French editions of Vogue. His pictures often refer to art history and religious painting. He also directed music videos and the 2005 documentary Rize. In 2006 he left Los Angeles for Maui, where he has concentrated on fine art series on themes of salvation, paradise and consumerism, among them Land Scape and Gas Stations.
What comes to market is mostly large colour prints, made in numbered editions and often in more than one size. A buyer will want to know the edition, the size, whether the print is signed, and which gallery it came through, and magazine pages should be kept separate from prints made for sale. Colour prints are sensitive to light and large face-mounted works mark easily, so a print should be checked for fading, scratches to the surface and damage at the corners.
At a glance
- Born
- 11 March 1963
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