Curators: Gerardo Mosquera.
Nº of works: 107 b&w photographs.
Availability: from october 2014.
Contact: Ana Berruguete
Catalogue: Published by La Fabrica
Touring to: PHotoEspaña 2011, C/0 Berlin and FOAM Amsterdam along with NovaCaixa Galicia in both Vigo and A Coruña.
Ron Galella didn’t invent the word paparazzo—Italian for a buzzing mosquito—but he certainly personalized it by redefining the relationship between the movie star and the photographer. Now in the business of catching public figures in private moments for more than three decades, the nation’s most famous celebrity photojournalist presents the next chapter in his ongoing visual diary of fame, wealth, and success in America. Ron Galella born in the Brox, N.Y, 1931, is known as a pioneer paparazzo.
Dubbed Paparazzo Extraordinaire by Newsweek and the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture by Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, he is regarded as the most controversial celebrity photographer in the world. He is widely-known for his obsessive treatment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the subsequent legal battles associated with it. The New York Post called them «the most codependent celeb-paparazzi relationships ever». In the famous 1972 free-speech trial «Galella v. Onassis», she obtained a restraining order to keep Galella 150 feet away from her and her children. Galella is willing to take great risks to get the perfect shot.
By dint of 107 shots, among which a great amount were cover pictures of magazines such as Vanity Fair and Vogue, this exhibition displays a career of more than 3 decades devoted to unveil the private moments of well-known characters.
