If you are a photographer you should be aware of American SuburbX - it is an amazing website with all kinds of interviews, reports, commentary and criticism of today's serious photography. And, ya know, they don't get much bigger than David LaChapelle. So sit down, link over and read for a spell.
AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY - "Conversation with David LaChapelle":
"GIANNI MERCURIO: You have drawn and painted since you was a child. But you soon decided to express yourself through the means of photography. At the beginning of the ‘eighties the art scene was mainly given over to painting with rare and important exceptions such as Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman. Perhaps we could run through your early career.
DAVID LACHAPELLE: I started off taking pictures and showing them in galleries. At the beginning I didn’t want to work for magazines as I wanted to exhibit in a gallery, and I did. My first show was at a gallery called 303, which I inaugurated, it was 1984. Then a few months later I had my second show there. You didn’t have to wait a whole year before you had another show. We were just playing, you know, wanting to make work, wanting to make art. At that time, I was only asking about $400 for a picture, and still no one was buying them. You couldn’t live off of that."
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