Ron Galella

Ron Galella ( born 1931 in the Bronx ) is a paparazzo mitschuf tabloids and raised to an art form.

Galella was born to Italian immigrants. His father was a carpenter. He began his career as a photographer in the Air Force. By his early twenties, he moved to Los Angeles and was trained as a photojournalist. In his spare time he photographed on film premieres the arriving stars and starlets and sold the pictures to the National Enquirer or Photo Play.

His most famous photo, the image of the " windblown Jackie ," Galella shot out of a moving taxi: On the black-and- white photo can be seen in her hair reminds you of Jackie Kennedy's face the recognition of an incipient smile. This moment rated Ron Galella in humans generally considered the most magical at all. Therefore, the paparazzo referred to this photo as his Mona Lisa.

From him, inter alia Photos of Audrey Hepburn, Robert Redford, Madonna, Muhammad Ali, Ali MacGraw, Richard Burton, Sean Penn and Aristotle Onassis were published. From Marlon Brando Ron Galella got smashed the lower incisors in June 1973 by a punch and broke his jaw, as the actors on the street do not want to be photographed without sunglasses. Here, Marlon Brando injured his hand that required stitches at the hospital later. After this incident, Galella longer wore often during his work for the protection of a American football helmet. In 1974, photographed Paul Schmulbach Galella, like this - watched Marlon Brando at the Waldorf -Astoria Hotel in New York with a camera - the helmet wearing.

Jackie Kennedy sued Galella. After a first trial in 1972, the ever- seismogram Galella was not allowed to approach her under 25 feet. In a second ruling in 1982 Ron Galella had to give the promise, Jacqueline Kennedy not to take pictures until the day she died, as he had the first edition four times broken. Andy Warhol, however, worshiped the photographer. Liz Taylor used for their autobiography eight pictures of him.

Exhibitions

• Foam ( Amsterdam ), 2012 - Ron Galella. Paparazzo Extraordinaire!
• C / O Berlin, 2011/2012 - Ron Galella. Paparazzo Extraordinaire.
• Museum of Photography (Berlin ), 2008 - Pigozzi and the Paparazzi - with Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Quinn and Newton.
• Powerhouse Gallery, 2006 - The Kennedys.
• Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, 2005 - Photography with the PAPARAZZI approach.
• Andy Warhol Museum, 2002 - "Off Guard: The Photographs of Ron Galella ".
• Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2002 - PHOTOGRAPHY BY Ron Galella.