I'm a big fan of biographies particularly autobiographies and photo journalism. The Black List was totally up my alley. Each subject gets about three pages to tell his or her story and the writing is accompanied by fantastic photographs. The subjects are a mix of extremely well known figures from pop culture and some lesser known by incredibly influential people in the African American community.

Make you stop and take stock in your own life.

The third installment of LaChapelles trilogy LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is the long awaited third volume in an exhilarating trilogy that began with LaChapelle Land 1996 and continued with the infamous Hotel LaChapelle 1999 . Packed with astonishing, color saturated, and provocative images, those titles both became instant collectors items and have since gone through multiple printings. Featuring almost twice as many images as its predecessors, LaChapelle Heaven to Hell is an explosive compilation of new work by the visionary photographer. Since the publication of Hotel LaChapelle, the strength of LaChapelles work lies in its ability to focus the lens of celebrity and fashion toward more pressing issues of societal concern. LaChapelles imagesof the most famous faces on the planet, and marginalized figures like transsexual Amanda Lepore or the cast of his critically acclaimed social documentary Rizecall into question our relationship with gender, glamour, and status. Using his trademark baroque excess, LaChapelle inverts the consumption he appears to celebrate, pointing instead to apocalyptic consequences for humanity itself. While referencing and acknowledging diverse sources such as Renaissance, art history, cinema, The Bible, pornography, and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal and epoch defining visual language that holds up a mirror to our times. We've all gone to an art museum and after about an hour of seeing one masterpiece after another, we've reached the saturation point and can really not properly absorb seeing any more art no how matter how great it is. This boxed, coffee table book of color photographs had the same effect on me as becoming saturated in an unfamiliar museum. This Taschen printed volume differs from his earlier "David LaChapelle" catalogue in that it is 11 1/4 by 14 1/4 inch format and it's possible to really study the photographs. Most of these images are slick, surreal, erotic fantasy images. There are a few relatively straight portraits of major . The Portrait of a self satisfied looking Hillary Clinton standing behind her almost empty, spotless office desk is one of those relatively straight forward portraits. The photo is titled "Hillary Clinton, Century 21, 2001." Thanks to the large format double page spread the reader is able to notice a lonely red apple sitting on the desk like it was just left by a admiring student. Unfortunately the apple is rotten and one can almost see the worm crawling out from the large black hole in the side of the fruit. Was this portrait some kind of future omen?

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