Dave LaChapelle's surrealist photography challenges the audience to contemplate consumerist culture and the way in which it has insidiously permeated our reality. The pursuit of money, fame and sex appeal has replaced the quest for happiness and well being in Western culture, and we accept this without realising it.
LaChapelle critiques social conventions by using blemishless, gaunt humans weighed down with make up and glorified with artificial light.
He highlights how celebrity culture has subverted religion and places some of the world's most well know stars in loaded poses. My favourite is this one of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
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