By
Rohin Guha
September 16, 2008
A self-professed surrealist, David LaChapelle has a talent for skewing close to reality when need be -- as in, whenever Amy Winehouse calls on him to direct a music video -- and making that reality look eye-popping, campy, and cogent to boot. But he shines the most not through his MTV cache, but through his own visual artwork. It's within the galleries where he's truly entitled to toy with and reshape reality.

