The photographs of David LaChapelle (born 1963) are among the most instantly recognizable images in contemporary photography. His uber-pop color portraits of celebrities such as Cameron Diaz, Marilyn Manson and Kanye West (whom he has portrayed, respectively, as King Kong, a crossing guard and Black Jesus) have propelled his work outside the closed society of galleries and museums into a wider public arena. Thus Spoke LaChapelle is the first retrospective of the artist's work to include photographs from the mid-1980s up to the present, plus a range of work that has never previously...

When David moves to Ottawa, it is supposed to be an escape from his dysfunctional home-and a chance to find himself in new surroundings. But his college experience isn't the type of adventure he had in mind. Stranded with no support network, he begins losing touch with reality and experiencing psychotic symptoms. And when family intervenes and doctors confirm the worst, he finds himself with a devastating new diagnosis: paranoid schizophrenia, a condition that affects one in a hundred people, yet is still largely misunderstood. David's Journey With Schizophrenia: Insight into Recovery follows...