
Paris Hilton: Grandma Hilton’s House
2000
In this visually extravagant chromogenic print, David LaChapelle stages Paris Hilton in a hyper-saturated domestic interior that teeters between kitsch nostalgia and surreal excess, characteristic of the photographer's signature aesthetic. The flush-mounting to Plexiglas enhances the image's vivid, candy-colored palette, giving the scene a glossy, almost artificial luminosity that blurs the line between reality and constructed fantasy. LaChapelle uses the intimate setting of a grandmother's home as a theatrical backdrop to explore themes of celebrity, femininity, and the collision of generations through his trademark lens of glamorous absurdity.
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- chromogenic print, flush-mounted to Plexiglas
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