David LaChapelle

Controversial. Explosive. Intriguing, and sought after author, and is considered I highly sought after photographer. This list of adjectives that I gave is a few words that describe the author/film maker David LaChapelle. Mr. LaChapelle is not only a film maker he also has a sequence of novels that he has produced. In 1996 the book LaChapelle Land, and in 1999 the second book Hotel LaChapelle were both on the New York Times Bestsellers list. These books were the most sought after photography books of all time. Mr. LaChapelle has had the chance to take pictures with all walks of life from people such as: Tupac Shakur, Lance Armstrong, Eminem, Madonna, Lil Kim, Hilary R.Clinton, and many other great people. On June 24, 2005 all across the nation a seed was planted into everybody’s mind who went to go watch one of the greatest documentaries of all time. Rize, this is a documentary talking about a new type of “dance” that was created to express the everyday life of those who are trapped, in a suppressed area of Los Angeles communities. Krumping hit the big screen then it was seen spreading across the world like a disease. Everybody wanted to learn how to do these moves and just took what they saw from the movie and added their own twist. None of these would have been possible if Mr. LaChapelle never would have documented it. So he is the reason that most of the people today want to Krump, his vision that he had about showing how it really is in the hood, to show how people deal with their problems without violence.