David LaChapelle: Make Believe
9 September 2022 - 8 January 2023
Fotografiska New York
281 Park Avenue South

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A major new exhibition from David LaChapelle—the artist’s largest-ever U.S. exhibition; first New York museum solo show; and most comprehensive exhibition to date—will feature more than 150 works created between 1984 and 2022. Starting in 1980s-NYC with existential religious explorations LaChapelle made as the AIDS crisis ravaged his close circle, the exhibition spans the thematic and technical breadth of the artist’s diverse, 40-year career of narrative social commentary, with a “full circle” effect in his newer work’s matured revisitation of his early practice’s religious themes.

In Make Believe, poignant visual explorations including rare and never-seen images dialogue with iconic, intergenerationally significant staples of visual culture: the last-ever portrait of Andy Warhol (1986); intimate 1990s photos of Tupac, David Bowie, Madonna, and Britney Spears; illustrious fashion campaigns featuring Naomi Campbell (and a 1996 portrait of Alexander McQueen in a ballgown); and electrifying portraiture of today’s most talked-about names, like Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Travis Scott, and Kim Kardashian.

Filling all six floors of the Landmarked museum building’s 1894 architecture, Make Believe—Fotografiska New York’s first building-wide takeover dedicated to a single artist, in a space that typically accommodates four to five separate shows—stages LaChapelle’s work in a captivating interplay with the museum’s stunningly churchlike interior.

Learn more in the above-linked press release. A preview of works on view is below; usage must be accompanied by the following credit line: © David LaChapelle, courtesy of Fotografiska New York — UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED IN THE FILE TITLE, such as the portraits of David LaChapelle that are copyright of Linda Stulic or the architectural shots of Fotografiska.

IMAGE USAGE NOTES: • Permission to reproduce the images is granted solely for use in conjunction with media reportage and review of David LaChapelle: Make Believe at Fotografiska New York. • All reproductions must be accompanied by the following caption: © David LaChapelle, courtesy of Fotografiska New York. • Any digital reproductions including but not limited to websites and the internet shall be low resolution with a resolution no greater than 72 dots per inch, with neither the length nor height of the image being greater than four (4) inches. • The images shall not be available for download. The right to reproduce and distribute hereby granted is strictly limited to only the above-described image(s), to only the above-described media and to only the above-described period, and any further uses are strictly prohibited. • Should the media desire to use images other than original LaChapelle artworks, or original LaChapelle artworks generally described as "additional rights images", e.g., images with respect to which the copyrights, trademarks, rights of personality or other attendant rights owned or controlled by third parties are contained within a LaChapelle work, it shall be the sole responsibility of the media to obtain necessary rights, permissions, contracts, pay fees, etc., to secure such additional rights. • David LaChapelle Studio does not represent or warrant that it can or is conveying any of the above described ancillary rights.