can you picture it?Instagram has been the ultimate equalizer in finding new photographers, but there are other public exposures in the works from some well-established image makers.
David LaChapelle will have his first major US show next month at Fotogratiska New York. Titled “Make Believe,” the exhibition will feature more than 150 works spanning from 1984 to 2022. The illustrations begin with the photographer’s existential religious explorations that developed when the AIDS crisis took hold in New York City and influenced his friends in the ’80s and expanded to celebrities out and about.
La Chapelle captures Andy Warhol’s final paintings in 1986 in front of a bookshelf with an ancient Bible. The photographer and artist were fellow Catholics and the former stocked up on religious objects early in their careers to sit with friends to depict them as angels, saints, and martyrs. La Chapelle also took the last portrait of Michael Jackson in 2009. Another picture shows Alexander McQueen from 1996.
Star seekers will also find images of musicians Tupac Shakur, David Bowie, Madonna and Britney Spears. There will also be fashion images of Naomi Campbell and images of Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Visitors to the New York City Museum will walk through five themes of “Make Believe”—religion, the environment, gender identity, body image and social ideals of beauty, and the creation of celebrity. The exhibition will run till January 9.
In October, the two Rizzoli books will explore other elements of the genre. Author Violet Naylor-Leland called on style setters, creatives, artists, and others to interview her about her style evolution and home decor choices in “Rare Birds, True Style: Exceptional Interiors, Personal Collections, and Signature Looks.” A series has been made. And fashion illustrator François Berthoud will be the subject of “François Berthoud: Fashion, Fetishes and Fantasies.”
Looking further ahead in the fall, Phaidon is set to publish the first and only monograph on photographer Steven Klein. The title “Steven Klein” is available to pre-order for $200. And “Pierre Cardin: Making Fashion Modern” by Jean-Pascal Hesse and Pierre Pellegri will be out of Flammarion.
Originally published at Pen 18
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