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The perfectly formed body builder is as faultlessly presentable as the spacecraft behind him. All the others, though, have a long way to go… LaChapelle is interested in the everyday, less because of anthropology than because it is inescapable and because “good taste is the death of art” – Truman Capote.

LaChapelle started off as a busboy at Studio 54 in New York and then ended up working with Andy Warhol. His idea about photography is that it is a break from beauty, an intermission. Once he was hired by Details magazine in the early 1990′s, his work went “crazy.” He now receives commissions from almost any celebrity who wants to add that pizazz to their portfolio of head shots, the latest is Lady Gaga of course….