Move over, Kondo—we’re embracing more-is-more this season. A photographer, an artist and a drag queen tell Shahnaz Siganporia how and why maximalism can be spiritual, cathartic and even empowering.
DAVID LACHAPELLE
The master of high-gloss, hyper-real, hot-on-the-zeitgeist iconic pop imagery shares his big-picture vision
David LaChapelle, photographer, and arbiter of pop iconography tells me, “Irony is dead. We have no time for irony anymore.” From a Christ-like Tupac Shakur to a picturesque Courtney Love and Britney with a hotdog, between the Studio 54 days and chart-topping music videos for the MTV generation, LaChapelle made martyrs out of pop stars and beautifully employed irony to mock the reverential. But it is 2019, and in the over-cluttered world of Insta-image making, hashtagging, sharing, liking and consuming, the veteran photographer hasn’t fallen into the sinkhole of irrelevance. He’s a Renaissance man, and evolution is part of his DNA, he explains. “I’m sensitive towards what’s going on in the world. There are photographs everywhere, there’s way too much of it—there’s no time for the conceptual, there’s no time to contemplate. Images need to be direct now, so I’m not playing with irony anymore.”
A NEW GAZE
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