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“I know you didn’t just cut me,” a young man with Marie Claire magazine connections said to the couple standing directly in front of us in the press line outside Fotografiska New York on Park Avenue. This was a puzzling statement, given that the line hadn’t moved in at least five minutes, and the confused-looking couple had been standing there just as long as we had. New York is back, baby!
As action-packed September, beginning with New York Fashion Week, blooms bright and crisp after the endless, sweaty drudgery of August, so too arrives “Make Believe.” It’s an entire-building takeover exhibition at Fotografiska showcasing the oeuvre of David LaChapelle, a prolific photographer and Warhol mentee whose famed celebrity portraits amount to just a fraction of his provocative, pop-sheened, deeply spiritual output.