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Hotel Lachapelle | 
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| Creator: David Lachapelle
Publisher: Bulfinch
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 67819
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.1
Dimensions (in): 14.8 x 11.7 x 1
ISBN: 0821226363
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780821226360
ASIN: 0821226363
Publication Date: November 1, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
This second boxed book of David LaChapelle's photographs (LaChapelle Land is the first) ends with a beautifully written commentary by LaChapelle himself offering readers insight into the book and his photographic process: "And when people come for a photo session with me, they are giving themselves over, sort of checking in. When you stay at a hotel you're living for one day in a place where you don't normally live. That feeling can be true with photographs, too." LaChapelle's photographs can be spotted a mile away. If you read magazines, you know his work: it jumps out like none other with the expertly created environments and alternate realities in which he places his subjects. These universes are complete and constantly evolving to fit dynamic personalities. Hotel LaChapelle is filled with a celebrity cast as well as what LaChapelle calls "characters on the peripheries." The colors are as vibrant and inorganic as the settings that encapsulate his models. In this world, heads are sewn onto different-colored bodies, a nurse holds a face with a pair of tweezers, Marilyn Manson works as a school crossing guard, Madonna is a Krishna goddess, Leonard DiCaprio becomes Marlon Brando, and Ewan McGregor's face peers into a dollhouse while his body bleeds from a gunshot wound fired from Barbie's diminutive gun. The list goes on, and what it says about LaChapelle's vision is that excess is never too much. --Amra Brooks
Product Description
" Hotel LaChapelle takes the reader another step deeper into the shocking world of David LaChapelle. Each full-color page is metaphorically, a room in a crazy hotel. Hotel LaChapelle is full of neon, sex, and strange people;and the result is a beachy postcard from that nuns-with-guns place in the sun that could only exist in the vision of David LaChapelle. Hotel LaChapelle will be luxuriously printed and handsomely, colorfully boxed. Boasting more than 158 full-color images, it is a passport to this groundbreaking photographer's unique imagination. His subjects include the hottest celebrities to today: Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Tori Amos, Uma Thurman, Marilyn Manson, Daniel Day Lewis, Mike Myers, Pamela Anderson, and many others. Spectacular in style as in content, Hotel LaChapelle promises to be the wildest, freshest volume of photography of the next few years. "
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 Not What I Expected, but Definitely Worth the Money September 10, 2008
For all those readers and photography fans that liked LaChapelle's first catalogue "David LaChapelle" by Davide Faccioli they will love this volume. For one reason it contains almost all the photographs that were included in that small format catalogue. That was the only flaw with the earlier collection of LaChapelle's distinctive work. This volume reproduces those images plus many more in a much larger format so that they can be more easily seen, studied and enjoyed.
The Concept Creator and Photographer provide the readers with a nice overview of his approach to life and his work. There is little or no text in most of his books. "I decided to call this book `Hotel LaChapelle' because almost all the photos in it were conceived of and made while in hotel rooms...And when people come for a photo session with me, they are giving themselves over, sort of checking in."
This surprised me a bit because from the cover on the boxed book I expected to see a variation of artist Edward Hopper's voyeuristic subway rider views into passing hotel and apartment windows. That expectation was totally wrong. Although feeling slightly mislead by the box cover picture, I wasn't disappointed in this book. It was also helpful to learn from the photographer about the large crew of regulars he uses for his complicated shoots. LaChapelle isn't a street shooter. He sets up entire fantasy worlds worthy of Hollywood Movie Set Designers.
It was also fascinating to learn how much the photographer dislikes most of the celebrity publicists that often veto his creative ideas. "The smartest celebrities are the ones who hire...publicists who happen to understand a creative moment...because they realize the importance of a still image as a visual record of their time and place as a celebrity in the culture, and as a tangible thing you can hold in your hand."
"A lot of the pictures in this book exist only because there was no interference...Which is a big reason to do a collection in a book...A book is a permanent record."
As usual, LaChapelle has produced some more wonderful visual puns, satires, surreal environments and political parody. And once again, most of the subjects in his portraits and scenes are like colorful cartoon characters or kinky, shiny plastic-looking models from a weird, far-side wax museum. Even the most beautiful women in the world who are some of his subjects seem to have been photographed in such a way as they aren't the slightest bit sexy or desirable even when scantily dressed in lingerie or completely nude.
Despite that curious fact, this is still an excellent photography book. It's much better than it's immediate predecessor "LaChapelle Land."
After checking out LaChapelle's website I've decided he may be in the middle of "pulling a Stanley Kubrick." I can easily see him using his current visualizing and set designing skills to make motion pictures. Stanley Kubrick was also a successful teenage still photographer who worked for LOOK Magazine before he became a motion picture legend. I can easily see LaChapelle eventually making films of the caliber of Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange", "Dr. Strangelove", "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "The Shining." He is well known to many film celebrities and their agents and staffs. He already has access to many of the actors in the cinema world and that would be extremely helpful to a would-be film director.
Hotel Lachapelle September 1, 2008
Beautiful book. Full color hard back with a neat cardboard box that the book comes in. Incredible colors and subject matter.. David Lachapelle is a fantastic photographer. Great book to add to anyone who has an art book collection. This book NEVER goes out of style!!!
Inspirational Photography January 7, 2008
Simply inspirational photos. I love the quality of the prints and it's a nice touch that the book comes in a small box.
The photos are truly fantastic! Lachapelle is able to take you to fantasy worlds with his colorful and over the top photography.
Perfect June 8, 2007
It's a big book with wonderful pictures.
Very nice print.
And I have no words to describe Chapelle's photos.
If you like La Chappele, you'll love this book June 7, 2007
Shows off some different styles of David, as well as shows off his clientele. Great photos and a cool hard cover with the same graphic as the cover to keep it prestige.
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