{"id":26694,"date":"2021-06-16T22:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=26694"},"modified":"2021-06-16T22:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:05:57","slug":"david-lachapelle-iconic-photos","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/david-lachapelle-iconic-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Pop Culture Moments Courtesy of Photographer David LaChapelle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amanda Lepore as series, David LaChapelle, 2003.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Album art<\/a> and the imagery surrounding an album’s era are important. Think Travis Scott’s Astrowrorld<\/em>\u00a0or Lil’ Kim’s<\/a> The Notorious K.I.M. \u2014 <\/i>both were taken by acclaimed photographer David LaChapelle. <\/i>And now we can add Doja Cat<\/a> to that impressive roster as she prepares to blast us off to Planet Her<\/em> full speed ahead. Ensuing the release of her new single and accompanying music video, “Need To Know” \u2014 <\/em>with visuals that gave us\u00a0Fifth Element<\/em> meets Blade Runner \u2014<\/em>the\u00a0rapstress took to Instagram this past week to unveil promo images from her upcoming album.<\/p>\n

Teaming up with iconic fashion and pop culture photographer, David LaChapelle, the images exude his signature, surrealist aesthetic. LaChapelle is a celebrated American photographer and video artist best known for his commercial fashion portraits of celebrities and models \u2014\u00a0 we’re talking from Madonna and Amanda Lepore to Tupac and Lizzo<\/a>. As a former intern of Andy Warhol, his photographic lens takes cues from pop art mixed with modern-surrealism. He’s known for creating expansive worlds through curated images so it makes perfect sense that the “Say So” singer would partner with him to produce imagery for her next era.<\/p>\n

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