It's Not About Me, It's About You

David LaChapelle - It's Not About Me, It's About You David LaChapelle's work, It's Not About Me, It's About You is a pigment print on Dibond made in a limited edition of 7 copies and 3 artist's proofs. This work features the famous heiress Paris Hilton wrapped in a skimpy pink dress. Her figure by pose is reminiscent of that of Barbie, but the artist's rendering of the protagonist is that of a cardboard cutout.  If one looks closely, Hilton's silhouettes are defined and sharp, just like the posters outside movie theaters. Paris, moreover, looks at the viewer through her beauty mirror, in a game of cross-references that engages whoever is admiring the work.  Behind her is a man with a gaze toward the horizon, intent on scanning the arrival of a streetcar. Sitting on a platform, the man waits for the public transportation by destination he ignores, surrounded by suitcases while carrying the cardboard figure of Paris. Inserting himself masterfully between the dreamlike and hyperrealist di