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Ron galella pictures2/17/2024 The manager was cooperative, because he wanted publicity for the film and he said, "Where do you want to hide for this big scene this party scene?" I said I'm going to hide in one of the caves. I went down to photograph at a hotel they were filming at. One time he was filming in Mexico for the film Hammersmith is Out. The bad boys were Elvis, Sean Penn is another one. And her smile, it's the same thing that made Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" great, just the eyes and the lips, the beginning of the smile. But here you see her informally dressed, no makeup. The public always sees Jackie with her Valentino dress. You see, if she went to the studio, she would have a designer gown, she would be all made up with the hair: this is the difference. We see Jackie informally dressed in Levi's and no makeup, wind blowing in her hair, and most of all, that Mona Lisa smile. I gave the camera to Joy Smith and I said photograph me with Jackie and she got a great picture of me going up to Jackie, after which Jackie turned towards me and said "are you pleased with yourself?" She was a little pissed and I said "yes thank you." She recognized me after I got out of the cab and put on her glasses. The driver of the cab blew his horn - I didn't even tell him to - and then she turned and that's how I got the perfect picture of her Mona Lisa smile. She didn't see even me or hear the clicks, it was in the afternoon, New York traffic. I rolled down the window and got two good profile shots. If I'd run after her, I'd never get the "Windblown Jackie." So I got out of the cab and found her 90th street. Instead of running after her, I hopped a cab - to get the off guard picture you have to hide. Jackie slipped out of the backdoor and didn't see me so I went to the corner following her as she went north on Madison Avenue. Instead, I saw her coming out of the car. I was photographing her in Central Park, hoping that I might get Jackie jogging. I was out photographing a girl, a model who needed pictures for her portfolio and she lived near Jackie. I designed my letterhead to say "photography with a paparazzi approach." What I mean when I say paparazzo, is exclusive, off-guard, unrehearsed, spontaneous, no appointments. The paparazzo actually became famous in America not with Fellini, but with my trial with Jackie, which went for 26 days in 1972.īut for me, it's different –– I'm a self-styled paparazzo. When was writing the script for La Dolce Vita, the word reminded him of one of his characters, a photojournalists. So, the teacher baptized him paparazzo, Italian for a buzzing mosquito. He told me that when he was a schoolboy in Rimini, Italy, he shared a desk with a restless boy who was always screaming, talking so fast, that his words came out stuck together like an endless buzzing. When I was researching my first book, Jacqueline, in 1974, I wrote to Federico Fellini, the filmmaker who coined this word, "paparazzi," and asked him how he came up with it.
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