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Ron Galella, the king of paparazzi on display in Turin

The Others, the main Italian fair dedicated to national and international emerging contemporary art, celebrates its 10th anniversary with photos of the most controversial paparazzo of all time From the MOMA in New York to the London Tate Gallery to the Helmut Newton in Berlin, his shots have been exhibited in museums all over the world: from 4 to 7 November they will be on display in Torino for the 10th edition of The Others Art Fair.

Ron Galella, which is now ninety years old and is a legend, was defined by Harper’s Bazaar the most controversial paparazzo of all time, Andy Warhol said of him that he was his favorite photographer, and about him the Oscar winner Leon Gast made the documentary Smash His Camera.

To Ron Galella, The Others dedicates an exhibition focus within a special edition that celebrates his tenth birthday by turning the spotlight on global current issues to interpret our times through artistic language.

The exhibition sections of The Others 2021 range from role of women in the Middle East, all’environment, at the music up to the vision (not very reassuring, indeed monstrous) that young people have of future: and it is precisely the musical trend, by the Tum Association, to propose the shots of the American paparazzo of the gallery Alberto Damian.

A gallery of the great protagonists of the international showbiz from the 60s to the 90s, surprised in unprecedented moments: Galella himself confessed to having been stationed for more than fifty years to steal an image from the great names of cinema and music, also taking into account to end up in court or in hospital, for example when Marlon brando with a fist he broke his jaw and knocked out five teeth: “Once he was discharged,” says Ron, “I stayed behind him again, but with a football helmet on my head to avoid any more surprises.”

And then there are the parties where they are immortalized together John Lennon e Mick Jagger , David Bowie, Diane Von Fustenberg, Sofia Loren, Madonna e Michael Jackson or again John Travolta in 1976 in New York in the midst of delusional fans. Black and white masterpieces that tell the myths and history of three decades of the nineteenth: among these the portrait of Jackie Kennedy, which the paparazzo calls “the photo of my life” – with Jacqueline turning around for a moment and looking at him, while her eyes and mouth smile. “It was Monnalisa’s smile, the one that Leonardo captured in his painting», So Galella defined it, baptizing the shot Windblown Jackie.

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