10.04.2009

David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle is an American photographer and video director, his unique and surreal style is portrayed in his work in the fields of fashion, advertising and fine art photography. In his career so far he has published four books of celebrity portraits and directed Elton johns show 'The Red Piano' as well as directing commercials for various major companies such as Tommy Hilfiger, Lavazza, L'Oreal and Burger King.
The color in his photographs are often bright and very bold, in his photographs we can see his use of Photoshop to alter the main layout/subjects/setting and so we can safely assume that color is also altered this way. In this particular image the heads of the people have been replaced to give them a sense of anonymity, the colors in this very warm, being mainly orange and yellow with black as a strong contrast. The woman in this image wears white and yellow which ties in with the white and yellow of the eggs in the frying pan. Overall the image is very surreal with no particular concept or theme, but very bold and colorful.

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