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David LaChapelle

Recollections in America, III: White in White

  • Year2006
  • MaterialC-print
  • Dimensions64 x 79.5 cm
  • Year of acquisition2007
  • Inventory numberUAB 634 3/13
  • On viewCurrently not exhibited
  • Copyright© David LaChapelle. Photo: Haydar Koyupinar, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

More about the artwork

David LaChapelle is known for his opulently staged photographs of stars and supermodels. He owed the beginning of his stellar career as a celebrity photographer to Andy Warhol, who first commissioned him for “Interview” magazine in the early 1980s. “Recollections in America” is quite extraordinary for LaChapelle’s œuvre. The pictures are reminiscent of party snapshots; the persons shown seem less to play a part than to forget their parts: an elderly lady throws up in company, an apparently drunk man fills Kahlúa into a baby bottle. The longer the viewer looks at the photographs, the more inconsistencies are noticeable. Who would put a hand grenade onto a sideboard and why does the same man reappear several times? Photo albums from the 1970s and 1980s provide the foundation for this series. LaChapelle has digitally mounted elements such as the hand grenade into the photographs. These collages draw a memorable picture of suburban life in the United States—the dark side of the “American dream.”

Further artworks

Cy Twombly, Untitled ('THE MATHEMATICAL DREAM OF ASHURBANIPAL') (Lexington), 2000, UAB 657aus der Sammlung Brandhorst
Cy Twombly Untitled (“THE MATHEMATICAL DREAM OF ASHURBANIPAL”) (Lexington), 2000 Upper floor
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1958, UAB 440aus der Sammlung Brandhorst
Cy Twombly Untitled, 1958 Upper floor
Große querformatige Malerei mit verzerrtem Gesicht, das gespiegelt ist und in der Bildmitte ein weißes Kreuz bildet
Jana Euler Venice Void, 2022 Ground floor
Schwarzer Scherenschnitt, der eine verzerrtes Profil einer Person zeigt, die ihren Mund weit geöffnet hat und deren Haare aussehen, als würden sie im Wind wehen.
Kara Walker Miss Rona’s Hello, 2020 Ground floor
Cy Twombly, Untitles (OM MA NI PAD ME HUM), 2000, UAB 649aus der Sammlung Brandhorst
Cy Twombly Untitled (“Om Ma Ni Pad Me Hum”) (Lexington), 2000 Upper floor