David LaChapelle

I decided to do another artist reasearch on David LaChapelle. LaChapelle, according to Wikipedia, is a photographer and video/commercial/film director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique and often humorous style. Like Yosuf Karsh, my previous write up, he photographs famous people, but unlike Karsh, LaChapelle does vivid and surreal portraits of celebrities. To me, I feel that they are both equally different and yet alike photographers.

The picture I decided to talk about in my sketch book is of Jennifer Lopez (see below), the singer, who is dressed like the actress from Flash Dance. I chose this piece because it has pop culture in it, Flash Dance a movie, and it has a person that is famous already and the photographer decided to revisit an older movie and make it new, giving it a new spin and giving it a new life while still staying true to the model, Jennifer Lopez who is a singer/dancer.

What I feels makes this a sucessful image is the fact that it's so simple, a woman, on any dance floor, its in bullseye, and its posed but at the same time it has aspects that make it look natural, such as the sunlight.

I am also putting my sketch book spread.