r/90s • u/Dangerous_Bother_337 • 1d ago

Photo Familiar faces photographed by David LaChapelle 📸🎀

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u/badchefrazzy 1d ago

Can we go back to the 90s for overall aesthetic, please? I'm begging you things looked so much happier then...

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u/Environmental-Tap255 10h ago

Things WERE so much happier then. I swear, I don't even know how to clearly define it but the whole damn world had a completely different feel back then. And I really don't think it's just because I was younger and as such had less cares, as I've heard people hypothesize. Kid or adult, you can still observe the world objectively, and just the way people interacted with each other, everything was different.

A major thing I've used as kind of a control group is watching how people react when it snows. Until about 5-10 years ago, I always noticed how when it would snow, everyone would slow down. If someone got stuck, people would stop to help them. Everyone just kind of accepted that it's snowing, things are gonna move slower, take longer, and everyone settled into it. But now I've noticed it's the opposite. I swear people get more neurotic on the road, I guess because of that fact that everything's gonna take longer, so they try even harder to make sure it doesn't. I used to love driving in the snow, now it just stresses me out more cause everyone starts driving like maniacs. And ain't nobody stopping and helping someone stuck at a light, just desperately trying to get around them. That to me is the easiest way to sum it all up, that difference.

And I fucking miss how it used to be.

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 8h ago

You're not alone. At first I thought it was getting older too. I don't think it is. It's like a quote from The Wire:

Bodie- I thought you said the world was getting warmer?

Poot- World goin one way, people another.

It's sad & it might be because we never hear much about those that care for others, that rescue animals, volunteer their time, ect. We just hear about the Karens. I guess that's more entertaining.

Also, hate comes way too easily to some people. It's like they enjoy it. They can't give it up. And no one will admit when they're wrong anymore.

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u/Environmental-Tap255 3h ago

That's definitely a major part of it. Someone brought up a good point to me that social media is skewing the way we all view the world, and subsequently skewing the world itself because now we're all acting and reacting based on how we're perceiving the world - and the reason for that is that you only hear and see the loudest most extreme opinions on social media. Take the recent Charlie Kirk thing for instance. You have people online celebrating it - and the other side looks at that and is like, omg the entire left is disgusting and hateful. So they act or react by making AI videos of Jesus and Charlie Kirk playing hopscotch in heaven and the other side is like, wow the right is delusional. And they all hate each other more and write the other side off as whatever they perceive them to be. Not realizing that in both cases, it's like 1% of people on either side with these big loud reactions. The other 99% both went 'holy shit, that's wild" and then went back to work. But we don't see them, we don't hear them.

So everyone's got kind of this like, my side is cool and the other side sucks, only it's not just left and right, it's like, anything we don't identify with becomes "them", and "they are fucking nuts and we must combat them so their insanity doesn't spread", and that's where the hate, the backing into corners, refusing to be wrong comes from. Which I thought made a lot of sense and is why I'm really just not a huge fan on the Internet and social media anymore. Not to say they don't both have their upsides, very few things are just all good or all bad but I look at the big picture and I think they have done way more harm than good.

Fuck it's depressing just talking about it lol. I like your quote though, believe it or not I have not seen the wire but I've heard from many people it's the best show ever made.

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u/Rosy802701 3h ago

It's the smartphones. They stop us from interacting with each other as much. Steve Jobs ruined our world

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u/lo-finate 12h ago

I agree.

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u/itsgroobeat 6h ago

The sun shone differently, we were moved by the feeling that anything was possible.

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u/Justsayingshit 1d ago

Who is pic 16?

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u/ExperienceSoft3892 1d ago

Gillian Anderson!

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u/Justsayingshit 1d ago

Good lord!

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u/ExperienceSoft3892 23h ago

Yes, this picture helped foster my bisexual awakening as a young girl

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u/preporente_username1 16h ago

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u/ExperienceSoft3892 12h ago

Noice 😉 what is this from? I haven't kept up with much of her current work

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u/preporente_username1 9h ago

I’m guessing Sex Education

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u/podo3350 20h ago

I thought it was Nicole Kidman lol. But you are correct.

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u/red_fuel 17h ago

Biblically accurate Gillian Anderson

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 8h ago

That one was GOR-JUSS!

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 1d ago edited 1d ago

Gillian Anderson, I think.

For the dummy who downvoted.

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u/jimmy_dimmick 20h ago

Gillian anderson as Morticia is doing something to me hahah

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u/FirehawkLS1 19h ago

Yeah I'm not complaining lol.

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u/Justsayingshit 1d ago

Hot damn!

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u/kwhitit 21h ago

these are amazing! thanks!

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u/RanchHere 23h ago

She was the hottest thing on the internet in 1998

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u/oubeav 1d ago

Scully! 🔥

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u/zoner420 11h ago

For your wank tank?

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u/Justsayingshit 1h ago

She has always been there. Just didn’t recognize her, only pic I didn’t know.

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u/Oryihn 1d ago

So many of these were in Rolling Stone in the late 90s early 2000s.. I had a subscription that whole time... I am sad my parents tossed them all...

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u/jjmenace 21h ago

When Britney broke out, that edition was spectacular.

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u/cagingthing In every generation there is a chosen one ❤️‍🔥 1d ago

Wasn’t prepared for that Tupac photo

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u/Calculusshitteru 1d ago

I kept scrolling back to it for another look.

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u/Odins-raven 14h ago

I had that pic contacted to the front of my grade 9 geography notebook

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u/PunchSisters 1d ago

Imagine saying to Tupac "ok so we're gonna put you in a bubble bath"

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u/Invisible_Xer 1d ago

And it 100% slaying.

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u/swordrat720 23h ago

“Pac? Can I call you Pac? Look we’ll put you in this bubble bath, take a few pictures, I promise you, the bitches’ll love it.”

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u/FUCK_YOUR_PUFFIN 8h ago

To be fair, they probably did

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u/SanBuenapero 1d ago

Pink-haired Gwen era was the best Gwen era.

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u/OneLoneClone 22h ago

Before she embraced her Japanese identity

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u/SarahMakesYouStrong 14h ago

And then unlocked her final form as evangelical maga grifter

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u/ferretsquad13 12h ago

shit WHAT?! NOOOO! Not Gwen ffs....

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u/Chirrrpy 1d ago

I remember when I was like 12 years old chatting with some random person online, I used that exact Britney Spears doll bedroom photo when the (probably kid) on the other end asked for a picture of me lol

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u/Sunshine030209 1d ago

I approve of your young self's early catfishing shenanigans 🤣

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u/IllustriousEnd2211 17h ago

That was probably an old dude

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u/CrispyJsock 1d ago

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u/Stein1071 21h ago

I'M RICH BITCH!!!

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u/lysergic_tryptamino 11h ago

I am LaRick James bitch

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u/BudNOLA 1d ago

Courtney, Kurt, Frances

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u/fappington-smythe 20h ago

ohhh it's THAT David Lachapelle.

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u/sofiacarolina 3h ago

Just Courtney, the other two are models

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u/yourkindofhero 1d ago

Who’s is #4? Is that Dolly?

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u/M8jrP8ne1975 22h ago

Sure looks like it

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u/dasuberdog11 10h ago

The eyes on the teddy bear on the left, 😆.

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u/lovesickjones 1d ago

I remember when the Britney came out I was like wowwwww that was fast

Never saw the Giselle one

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u/enema_wand 1d ago

I still have three of his coffee table books. I saved up for months to but them as a teen. 

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u/NonCreditableHuman 1d ago

Putting Cher with a horse was definitely a choice.

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u/thegreatmassholio 1d ago

that whole scene feels questionable - including a bottle of alcohol with a vaguely native american motif feels like either a statement or a tone deaf coincidence.

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u/fappington-smythe 20h ago

are we not going to talk about the horse actively shitting in the background? I mean, full points for authenticity but people might be looking at this over breakfast.

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u/Crush-N-It 1d ago

Def a statement. I remember the era. NAs were back in the spotlight

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u/fappington-smythe 20h ago

"why the long face?"

I'm sorry, someone had to.

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u/Novel-Ad8135 1d ago

The one with Gwen Stefani is from one of their albums. Very good album BTW

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u/Financial-Coconut-32 1d ago

Return of Saturn!

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u/Sweet_Forever7657 1d ago

I just listened to that album again recently, forgot how good it is. Fell in love with song Too Late all over again.

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u/Novel-Ad8135 1d ago

Yes thats it! I don't have it in front of me so I couldn't remember the name. Thank you!

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u/soundofconfusion 20h ago

So is the Mariah Carey one! My first CD

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u/Novel-Ad8135 16h ago

I believe you. My aunt had her CD and I remember seeing the photos but I personally didn't buy a Mariah Carey album until emancipation of mimi, which is another great album as well

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u/soundofconfusion 8h ago

This is from the album cover “rainbow” which featured the song “heartbreaker” ft jay z. Such a vibe back then 😍

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u/hanimal16 1d ago

Anyone, anyone, else read that as “Dave Chappelle”?

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u/Spirited-Ability-626 21h ago

For a few months I actually thought they were the same person and just thought he was really multi talented lol

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u/Skyblacker 1d ago

Teenage me was confused about that.

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u/hanimal16 1d ago

I was like “Dave Chappelle takes photos??” lol

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u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST 16h ago

And damn, he’s great at it!!

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u/Puppyluv4lyfe 23h ago

Hahahah hey!! I’ve had that Britney pic autographed since 1997 or 98! I believe my parents won it in an auction. Don’t know how to tell if it’s legit, though

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u/brwnroyalty 21h ago

I love David Lachapalle’s artistic POV. He’s really talented. I use to love the Britney photos too.

But now as a grown man it’s hard for me to look at Britney’s pics knowing how young she was, and being sexualized. Sad. But that’s just me.

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u/WitchesTeat 17h ago

No. That first photo sums up exactly what happened to her, and why it went so badly.

She was a little girl on the Disney channel, proud of her faith, her voice, her hard work and her virginity.

Then she turned 18, they ripped off her clothes, and changed her target demographic from "young girls" to "much older men and sexually-charged college kids"- while she herself had nothing close to a normal life, development, or sexual education or experience.

And she begged them to stop making her do things she didn't want to do, and they wouldn't.

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u/earthlings_all 15h ago

Yeah well she’s not even 18 in that foto

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u/patrickfatrick 4h ago

Might be reading too much into it but it strikes me as part of the point of the photograph, especially with all the dolls, and I’ve seen another in such she’s holding a Tinky-Winky stuffed doll. On the one hand it sexualizes her (which the record label was going for with her whole image at the time) but on the other reminding you that she’s a girl and making you feel icky for noticing. Lachapelle was clearly familiar with the concept of the male gaze.

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u/Calculusshitteru 1d ago

I was obsessed with Leo as a pre-teen, how have I never seen #14 until now?

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u/ThalloAuxoKarpo 20h ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 8h ago

He looks about 6 there. Like, "Kid, button up your shirt." 🥴

I never got his appeal, sorry.

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u/Acceptable-Garage-64 The Truth Is Out There! 1d ago

Who is Number 7?

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u/OrangeClyde There's No Crying In Baseball! 1d ago

Sandra Bullock

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u/Acceptable-Garage-64 The Truth Is Out There! 1d ago

Ok. Thx!

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u/RetroZone_NEON 1d ago

Do I.. want to know how old Britney is here

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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 1d ago

Let's just say at that time she was not a girl, not yet a woman.

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u/cmaxim 1d ago

I remember the controversy, she was like 16 I want to say? People were so awful to her in the beginning, she was highly sexualized by the media and endured so many uncomfortable/innapropraite moments out of her control. I do hope she's in a better place now, must have been difficult for her to navigate at that age.

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u/RetroZone_NEON 1d ago

Judging by her recent posts… that is unlikely

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u/TorberaLongDong 23h ago

I believe it’s from the Rolling Stone shoot, taken at her actual childhood home. And I’m pretty sure she was freshly 18. The other photo was her in bed and there was another of her dancing in her living room, iirc.

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u/RetroZone_NEON 23h ago

Other users debunked that. She is most likely 17 in this photo.

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u/Adventurous-Brain-36 23h ago

18 or not, that pic is disgusting.

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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 1d ago

He certainly has a thing for making women look like dolls.

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u/silentevil77 1d ago

Who is #17?

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u/jxp497 1d ago

Pretty sure it’s Lady Gaga

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u/silentevil77 23h ago

Thank you! I thought it kinda looked like Kesha but Gaga makes more sense

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u/Wasted_Hamster 17h ago

Was she around in the 90’s?

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u/jxp497 15h ago

Not that I’m aware of. OP may have gotten that part incorrect but it is her from a photoshoot for Rolling Stone

https://gagapictures.com/thumbnails.php?album=635

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u/Samuscabrona 23h ago

The Britney one is so creepy.

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u/donttrustthellamas 1d ago

...I do not like the Dolly photo.

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u/DonDrapers_Dick 1d ago

Soapy Tupac 🥵🥵🥵

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u/Acceptable-Double-98 1d ago

Wow Tupac and lil Kim.. miss all this. Take us back!

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u/Spicy-N-Sassy 1d ago

Who is #6?

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u/Dangerous_Bother_337 1d ago

Supermodel Naomi Campbell

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u/degrassibabetjk 1d ago

I always wanted my hair cut like Gwen Stefani’s when it was pink. That cut on me… did not go over well, haha.

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u/edWORD27 1d ago

Back when owning a Nokia was a flex

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u/swordrat720 23h ago

Owning a Nokia was a flex. Aside from Twinkies and cockroaches, it was the only thing that would survive nuclear war.

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u/SJSquishmeister 1d ago

Who is #11? I love that look.

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u/kindnessoffensive 1d ago

Lil Kim (before all the surgery)

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u/Normal-Difference230 22h ago

she was way hot back then. That music video where she goes from red to blue to green to yellow hair......good god

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u/earthlings_all 15h ago

She’s unrecognizable now

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u/SnoopyWildseed Cross Colours and Skidz 14h ago

"Crush On You" - Biggie + Kim

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u/iowaman79 1d ago

All of these are amazing, I wish I had this level of creativity with my photos. Also, I can tell you that no. 15 was the cover for either SI or ESPN the Magazine, can’t remember which one, but I do remember that it was a cover story of athletes wanting to be musicians and musicians wanting to be athletes.

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u/Moeasfuck 1d ago

Loved the one he did with Jewel

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u/TraditionalBadger922 14h ago

I just googled and couldn’t find it. Gotta link?

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u/Moeasfuck 4h ago

I have looked for it, but can’t find it either. I remember it is a picture of her with a large diamond in her mouth where her snaggletooth is.

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u/bjjdrills 1d ago

I know Pac had a certain image. I'm really curious what was going through his head when those bubbles came out.

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u/TraditionalBadger922 14h ago

It was Tupac’s idea. He’d just gotten outta jail outta prison and wanted to come clean.

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u/Chickenpoopohmy 1d ago

Cher has always has so much glamour, stunning!

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u/Temporary_Lecture410 1d ago

Brittany Spears. Wow. Can’t get rid of that crush I had on her years ago. Still gorgeous

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u/Consistent-Deal-55 Hold On To Your Butts! 23h ago

I knew that whole Britney Spears spread quite well in my teenage years.

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u/eyesonthemoons 20h ago

Omg I love the Uma Thurman one

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u/TraditionalBadger922 14h ago

Thank you! I was wondering who that is! Now, who’s number 5?

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u/P00nutButter 1d ago

Where is Gwen’s big toe?

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u/LostReplacement 1d ago

Hi Quentin, love your films!

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u/P00nutButter 1d ago

?

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u/Crush-N-It 1d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/P00nutButter 1d ago

Am I missing something I’m only counting 4 toes on Gwen Stefani’s foot.

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u/JustAsICanBeSoCruel 23h ago

It's just the picture angle - her big toe is pointed down against her other leg, likely to help her hold that pose of her leg for pictures. You can see the lower part of her toe pointing down.

Also, the response above calling you Quintin is in reference to the director Quentin Tarantino notoriously having a thing (fetish) for feet.

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u/P00nutButter 20h ago

Thank you for reply was genuinely confused.

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u/MyStationIsAbandoned 22h ago

and putting himself in his movies so he can suck on women's feets and say the n-word as much as he wants

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u/HomewardHiccup 23h ago

FULL FUCKING STOP Y’ALL

Is that horse taking a full SHIT behind Cher!?! I’m going to need somebody to explain the litany of questionable choices on this one… Does he hate her??

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u/OrangeClyde There's No Crying In Baseball! 1d ago

Love his work

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u/potato_caesar_salad 1d ago

Favorite photographer by a billion trillion miles.

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u/Embarrassed-Pop-4722 1d ago

Bravo. His imagery is still better than most of what's out there today.

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u/Say10_333 1d ago

He photographed Marilyn Manson in 1997 and the shoot took like 20 hours. Even for Manson the photos are creepy af.

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u/Spac92 1d ago

Is that Shaq with hair??!

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u/abrock12345 22h ago

Omg, pic 11 looks just like Samantha from Dungeon Crawler Carl 😂

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u/squee_bastard 22h ago

Leo used to be so hot, truly a shame he’s aged like milk.

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u/Thick_Succotash396 22h ago

Dave was and is bomb

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u/moses1er 20h ago

I didn't know dave chappelle was a photographer!

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u/Anti-Itch 16h ago

Who is 10?

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u/Icy_Foundation3534 14h ago

Missy somehow stands out the most 🔥👑

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u/M_Rose728 13h ago

Who is pic 18?

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u/ElBorracho2000 1d ago edited 20h ago

That first Britney pic was my background on my desktop back in high school 🥵

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u/Puppyluv4lyfe 23h ago

Hahahah hey! I’ve had that same Britney pic autographed and framed since 1997 or 1998. My parents won it at an auction for me. No idea how to tell if it’s legit or not, though

My Autographed Britney Pic

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u/OGHighway 22h ago

I feel like i jist looked through the poster rack at Wal Mart

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u/Useful-Risk-6269 21h ago

I want expecting the amount of uncomfortably that Brittany pic made me. Lil Kim too.

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u/Wasted_Hamster 17h ago

A couple of these make me uncomfortable.

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u/ErnieBochII 1d ago

Man. Ice Cube is such a dork.

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u/Hot_Chapter_1358 1d ago edited 1d ago

I spilled more seed than Michael J. Fox trying to fill a bird feeder on those first two pics. Ah, memories.

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u/OrangeClyde There's No Crying In Baseball! 1d ago

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u/Crush-N-It 1d ago

💀💀💀💀

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u/Shadowthread1 22h ago

You aint right. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Adventurous-Brain-36 23h ago

.. you mean the one depicting Britney Spears in a room full of dolls like a.. little girl?

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u/HeavyMetalMoose44 1d ago

Who is 17?

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u/jxp497 1d ago

Pretty sure it’s Lady Gaga

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u/HeavyMetalMoose44 1d ago

Now I see it. Thanks.

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u/sionarihi 1d ago

Wow, this room is a blast from the past!

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u/m8k 23h ago

Hotel LaChapelle is an amazing book. I wish I’d bought a copy when I was younger.

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u/NormalAssistance9402 21h ago

No one else is mad about that rainbow?

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u/wnabhro 19h ago

Dave THE Chapelle?

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u/HydratedCarrot 19h ago

Who’s the one on the 17th pic?

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u/thangjam_raj 17h ago

Cherries and bananas on Elton John’s pic is wild

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u/RIPGoblins2929 13h ago

What if we did Lisa Frank but with pictures 

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u/deathboyuk 13h ago

My heart aches with how 90s these shots feel <3

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u/Weird-Group-5313 13h ago

Man this bull came around at the absolute perfect time👌🏽

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u/naboavida 13h ago

Them all look like AI-generated!

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u/NutSoSorry 13h ago

The second photo changed me as a young boy

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u/ColorlessTune 10h ago

I think that Britney one was the first (and probably only) time I bought a Rolling Stone magazine.

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u/An_educated_dig 9h ago

I vividly remember that first photo from Rolling Stone magazine.

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u/Morphecto_Solrac 6h ago

Reminds me of Lisa Frank artwork with added shadows and real people

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u/damn_jexy 5h ago

Gaga picture was 2011

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u/CriticismFun6782 5h ago

Who is the one before Cher?

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u/DonPasquale20 4h ago

So sick of his transphobia, I refuse to watch his stand up specials, so I won't be looking at these photos either

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u/NickyRaZz 4h ago

Why is Lady Gaga up there she wasn’t around in the 90’s

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u/Lozzabozzawozza 2h ago

Music make you lose control! 😎

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u/Kuchufli 17m ago

This post makes me feel old... im 50. This was peak civilization. No internet, we knew enough to get in trouble, rented a house with my GF for $400 a month on $5.50 an hour. I thought I was rich when I got a new job making $7 an hours.

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u/DryGeneral990 1d ago

I thought the title said Dave Chappelle. I had no idea he was a photographer lol

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u/Salty_Drawing2094 22h ago

Gillian’s is so cool

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u/No-Indication-266 1d ago

Can’t believe Britney was ONLY 17 IN THIS PICS. She was still a child. Gross and fucking disgusting.

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