David LaChapelle: “Heaven To Hell”

Not only did visionary fashion and celebrity photographer David LaChapelle make our blossoms tingle by dedicating his massive limited edition compendium "Artists and Prostitutes" to two of our very favorite kinds of people when it was released back in June, he made us despair of actually ever owning a copy of it ourselves thanks to its hefty $2,500 price tag. (Blame the dearly departed Helmut Newton for starting the recent trend of absurdly expensive oversized coffee table books with 2000's "Sumo".) Fortunately for fans of it work, the more reasonably priced "Heaven To Hell" will be released by Taschen at the end of the month; featuring many of the same photos, it'll let us decide which category celebrities like Madonna, Naomi Campbell, and Pamela Anderson fall into for ourselves. (No fair saying "both". That's just too easy.)

· David LaChapelle: "Heaven To Hell" (book info @ taschen.com)
· David LaChapelle (davidlachapelle.com)
· "Artists & Prostitutes: David LaChapelle in mostra" (fashionblog.it)
· Order: "Heaven To Hell" and "Artists and Prostitutes" (Amazon)

Previously: Peter Beard's Ass Menagerie, "The Rise and Fall of Savannah" Redux, Gisele Bundchen by David LaChapelle