As a poor New York immigrant in the 1930s, Arthur Fellig was an aspiring photographer but couldn’t find a job. Working his way up as a darkroom assistant, he learned the tricks of the trade and eventually struck out on his own.
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We live in a celebrity-obsessed society in which we're constantly surrounded by videos, images and stories about our favorite stars, ...
We live in a celebrity-obsessed society in which we're constantly surrounded by videos, images and stories about our favorite stars, making us feel as if they are a part of our lives.
But what about the people who actually spend their lives photographing these celebrities? What is it like to be a part of the paparazzi? Do they consider it a passion or is it just another day's work?
Have
you ever wondered why your images are coming out extremely dark when
you are shooting live events? Well the main reason is that your light
meter is being thrown off by the stage lights. What is happening is
your light meter is seeing extremely bright stage lights and it is
tricking your camera to "think" there is a ton of light in the whole
scene when there really isn't.
Let me paint the picture for you.
If you are inside and you see your light meter read 1/8000 of a second
you should know that that is not correct. Now its correct in the term
that if you were shooting just the stage lights it would need to be
shot that fast. But if you are trying to capture a band they would just
come out dark because of such a fast shutter speed. This is all part of
the mentality of photography and knowing when something is either to
good to be true or just can not be right.
Ron Galella (born January 10, 1931) is an American photographer, 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.
Galella's photographs can be seen in hundreds of publications including Time, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Life. 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 co-dependent 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. In his in-home darkroom, Galella makes his own prints which have been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in both New York and San Francisco, the Tate Modern in London, and the Helmut Newton Foundation Museum of Photography in Berlin.
On June 12, 1973, notoriously-reclusive actor Marlon Brando punched Galella in the face without warning outside a restaurant in Chinatown in New York City, breaking the photographer's jaw and knocking out five of his teeth on the left-side of his mouth. Galella had pursued Brando, who was accompanied by Dick Cavett, to the restaurant after a taping of The Dick Cavett Show earlier that day. Galella hired Stuart Schlesinger to sue Brando and ultimately settled for $40,000. Schlesinger reported in Smash His Camera that Galella received two-thirds, but only cared about getting the message out, "I don't want anyone to think they can go around punching me if I am taking their picture, get that story out not the money."
A Bronx native, Galella served as a United States Air Force photographer during the Korean War and attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California, graduating with a degree in Photojournalism in 1958. He currently lives in Montville, New Jersey with his wife Betty Burke Galella.
Galella is the subject of a 2010 documentary film directed by Leon Gast entitled Smash His Camera.
( via Wikipedia)
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