David Lachapelle. Good News - (Hardcover)

About the Book

The latest and final publications from artist David LaChapelle: a two-volume project to complete his career-spanning anthology. Here, Good News picks up from Lost + Found, in a monumental curation of images. It marks a dramatic conclusion to LaChapelle's five-book narrative, one that has captivated a generation of viewers across the globe.

Book Synopsis

TASCHEN presents Lost + Found and Good News, the latest and final publications from artist David LaChapelle. The books are the fourth and fifth installments of LaChapelle's five-book anthology, which began with LaChapelle Land (1996), continued with Hotel LaChapelle (1999), and followed by Heaven to Hell (2006).

Good News follows David LaChapelle's creative renaissance as he surrenders to contemplations of mortality, moving beyond the material world in a quest for paradise. Featuring a monumental curation of images, it is a sublime and arresting new body of work that attempts to photograph that which can't be photographed. It represents the final chapter to LaChapelle's narrative in a collection of books that have captivated a generation of viewers across the globe.

Good News features:
Pamela Anderson, Lana Del Rey, Sharon Gault, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Paris Jackson, David LaChapelle, Amanda Lepore, Miriam Makeba, Sergei Polunin, Tupac Shakur, Elizabeth Taylor, and many more...

Lost + Found and Good News are sold separately.

Review Quotes

"The book captures the beauty and chaos of LaChapelle's pioneering career."-- "Hypebeast"

"Of all the photographers inventing surreal images, it is Mr. LaChapelle who has the potential to be the genre's Magritte."-- "Richard Avedon"

"An engrossing collection of LaChapelle's lurid, explicit, and hyperreal collages of fine art and pop culture."-- "The Miami New Times"