David LaChapelle, From Photographer to Artist
www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/fashion/david-lachapelle-from-photographer-to-artist.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
He was hired by Andy Warhol. He fired Madonna. He photographed Pamela Anderson and Lady Gaga and also Hillary Clinton, and made a star of the transgender apparition Amanda Lepore.