Richard Burton’s bodyguard also knocked out one of Galella’s teeth - though he lost a suit over that and was jailed in Cuernavaca, Mexico - while Elvis Presley’s security slashed Ron’s tires. It wasn’t the only time Galella was subjected to violence over his methods either. While it ultimately lost him five teeth, he got a $40,000 settlement out of it - not to mention incredible stills. Galella, who studied photojournalism at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, famously was sucker-punched by Brando as he trailed him in Chinatown. He prided himself on getting “unrehearsed, spontaneous images of real moments,” many of which included the middle finger from A-listers angry he caught them in the flesh.Īnd he sure saw anger personified. “To this day I cannot shoot Caroline,” he told The Post in 2019. It embodies all the qualities of my paparazzi approach: exclusive, unrehearsed, off-guard, spontaneous, no appointments - the only game.”ĩ Jack Nicholson during the 43rd Annual Academy Awards’ Governer’s Ball at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. “It’s a superior picture, like DaVinci’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. “This decisive moment photo, which I titled, ‘Windblown Jackie,’ is my favorite, most published picture and the best-selling print of all time at my fine art galleries worldwide,” he wrote in 2021. His work methods, regarded as unethical by some or genius by others, ultimately produced some of the most highly regarded iconographies - a testament to his keen eye - evident in “Windblown Jackie,” which infuriated the First Lady but delighted Galella. Though iconic, some of the Bronx-born fotog’s shots landed him in trouble - mostly because his subjects were unaware he was shooting them. Ron Galella, American (1931 2022), was surely the most controversial Paparazzo of all time.Dubbed Paparazzo Extraordinaire by Newsweek, during his long career he took more than 3 million photographs of celebrities and public figures. Known as the “Godfather of the US paparazzi culture” and “Paparazzo Extraordinaire,” the shutterbug shot more A-listers than perhaps any photographer in America during his six-decade career in photojournalism: John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Elvis Presley, Princess Diana, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol and so many more. The famed photographer died peacefully in his sleep in his home in Montville, New Jersey, on Saturday, his reps told the Hollywood Reporter. Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty The spitting image of her daughter Kaia while hosting a press conference to announce her line with JH Collectible Sportswear in 1990 in N.Y.C. The gutsy, fearless, in-your-face paparazzo who went to extreme lengths to snap photos of the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who took him to court, and Marlon Brando, who famously slugged him in the kisser, has died. If you were somebody, Ron Galella pointed his lens at you. Matthew Perry died from ketamine overdose, had ‘about 3 times normal amount in system’Īnna ‘Chickadee’ Cardwell’s husband recalls her final breath: ‘Everyone was crying and freaking out’ Matthew Perry was ‘angry and mean’ from testosterone shots in the weeks before his death: autopsy
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