David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle is identified in Andy Warhol’s diary as an Interview photographer and appears in a late diary entry as part of a small dinner gathering. The brief record places him in Warhol’s magazine and social orbit, while leaving his biography and the extent of their association undocumented.

Identity and Professional Context

Warhol refers to David LaChapelle as an Interview photographer. That identification is the diary’s specific description of his professional role; the passage supplies no further information about his career, photographic work, or responsibilities at the magazine.

Photography and portrait-making were prominent in Warhol’s own working life. His commissioned portrait process involved taking about sixty Polaroid photographs of a subject, selecting images for screening, and adjusting the chosen image before transferring it to canvas. The diary also records Warhol photographing Sylvester Stallone and participating in a televised portrait project with Carly Simon and other artists. These episodes establish the wider photographic and portrait-making context around the people in Warhol’s orbit, but the record does not connect LaChapelle to those projects or to Warhol’s portrait-production process.

Dinner with Warhol

In one diary entry, Warhol made plans to have dinner with Wilfredo and David LaChapelle, whom he identified as the Interview photographer, along with another guest. The group went to Provence, a restaurant opened by a man formerly associated with Le Cirque, and talked about the magazine. LaChapelle’s appearance is thus tied to an ordinary social occasion that was also a conversation about Interview, linking his professional identification to the magazine’s place in Warhol’s working relationships.

What the Record Establishes

The diary documents a specific point of contact: LaChapelle was included in Warhol’s dinner plans, attended the meal, and was present in a conversation about Interview. It does not describe what he said, how he and Warhol met, or whether they collaborated on any project. The entry offers a small but concrete portrait of LaChapelle’s place in Warhol’s circle, not a developed account of his life or a sustained relationship.