![]() “I’d seen the circle around Andy come and go, the phoniness of people who surrounded him. “But this industry is no place to get old,” he says, with a hollowed-out zen. Part Renaissance painter, part Jeff Koonsian kitsch, LaChapelle on form produces works that are stunning, witty, ironic and clever. He helped Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey reinvent themselves from prim pop princesses to OTT saucepots. He shot Marilyn Manson as a lollipop lady and Kanye West as Jesus. ![]() Everyone worth their salt – from Tupac Shakur and Leonardo DiCaprio to Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga had their most zeitgeisty moment captured by him. He directed Madonna through her Ray of Light years (and later quit by hanging up the phone on her) Michael Jackson was a close friend Andy Warhol was his mentor. His works in film and photography revel in super-high-end production values, where his immense perfectionist attention to detail changed the size and scope of what a celebrity photoshoot could be he elevated it to an art form that has been endlessly mimicked since. At the peak of his output from the mid-90s to the mid-00s, LaChapelle’s visual signature – lurid and dramatic, beautiful and grotesque – popped from every angle of culture. It has been 11 years since LaChapelle, 54, swore off the celebrity circuit to retreat to rural Maui, Hawaii, and reinvent himself as a farmer. Archangel Michael – ‘And no message could have been any clearer’, 1990.
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