People Will Get Tired Of Overly Retouched Images Soon And They'll Want Something Different. If People Have Too Much Reality, They Want Fantasy. What Matters Most Is What The Image Communicates. I Remember The First Roll Of Film I Shot At High School, The Contact Sheet Went From These Really Worthy Images Of Cracks In The Wall And Ended Up With All Of My Dancer Friends Naked In Renaissance Poses.

-David LaChapelle

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People Will Get Tired Of Overly Retouched

David LaChapelle

People Will Get Tired Of Overly Retouched Images Soon And They'll Want Something Different. If People Have Too Much Reality, They Want Fantasy. What Matters Most Is What The Image Communicates. I Remember The First Roll Of Film I Shot At High School, The Contact Sheet Went From These Really Worthy Images Of Cracks In The Wall And Ended Up With All Of My Dancer Friends Naked In Renaissance Poses.

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School

I Was Working In This Very Bombastic Style. I Didn't Really Know About Style. I Didn't Think About It: I Did What I Was Interested In, What I Was Attracted To, What I Was Drawn To. I Was Drawn To Color, And I Was Drawn To Humor, And I Was Drawn To Sexuality And Spontaneity. It Was All Really Intuitive. I Never Really Thought, "well This Is The Style...

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Color

Style