Lora Lolev
Bodies in space: LaChapelle’s photographic staging
While architectural photography often erases the human body from its frame, fashion photography depends on it. By analysing David LaChapelle’s editorial and portraiture work, I explore how the body’s interaction with its surroundings opens new ways of understanding the representation of space in images.
Reframing fashion photography as a vector of architectural photography allows us to rethink its role. As I argue: ‘LaChapelle’s image making channels the classical vocabulary of architectural photography while stripping away the grandeur of the built environment in favour of the human figure.’
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