DAVID LACHAPELLE // HEAVEN TO HELL

There isn't enough superlatives to describe David Lachapelle ! I love his work. Heaven To Hell is the last chapter in a trilogy :: LaChapelle Land 1996 :: Hotel LaChapelle 1999 :: While referencing and aknowledging such diverse sources as Renaissance art history,cinema, The Bible, pornography, and the new globlized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal and epoch-defining visual language that holds a miror to the face of our times.

This ad for SKYY Vodka by David Lachapelle has two versions, Straight or Gay ! In 2003, Patrick Cox Wannabe ad (below), with two men wearing jock straps wrestling in a gym locker room, was investigated by The Advertising Standards Authority. After complaint of someone who said that the ad "seemed to depict an act of buggery". Cox protested that it was "colourful, fun and beautiful" They also said that both men in the photograph were wearing jock straps, making penetrative intercourse impossible. So what do you think ? See the uncensored ad :: HERE ::