Celebrity / Photography
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 inches, 212 pages, over 150 duotone photographs
ISBN: 978-1-57687-457-8
$65.00
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No Pictures
Photographs by: Ron Galella
Text by: Peter Beard, Graydon Carter, Dick Cavett, Lauren Hutton, Patrick McMullan, Sylvia Miles
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Ron Galella didn’t invent the word paparazzo—Italian for
a buzzing mosquito—but he certainly personalized it by
redefining the relationship between the movie star and
the photographer. Now in the business of catching public
figures in private moments for more than three decades, the
nation’s most famous celebrity photojournalist presents the
next chapter in his ongoing visual diary of fame, wealth, and
success in America.
In No Pictures, Galella’s second powerHouse monograph
and the follow-up to the 2006 smash hit Disco Years,
confrontation takes the forefront. Just as famous today as
Galella’s images of a windblown, jeans-wearing Jacqueline
Onassis is the legal battle that ensued; in a trial that lasted
26 days and made the cover of Life magazine, Onassis sued
Galella and secured a restraining order against him. He has
run afoul of Sean Penn, Richard Burton, Marlon Brando,
Sam Shepard, and countless other stars, not to mention
Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell—who eventually banned
him from the club—and legions of angry bodyguards. No
Pictures chronicles these conflicts and Galella’s relentless
persistence in the face of it all, even when things got violent
(as with Brando, who once landed a punch that broke the
photographer’s jaw and five of his teeth). Driven by a mad
curiosity and a dogged insistence that the lives of celebrities
are fair game for one and all, he has continued to take risks
and make enemies in service of getting the perfect shot. The
stars may shout “No pictures!” but Galella refuses to take no
for an answer.
Widely acknowledged as the most controversial celebrity
photographer in the United States, Ron Galella has been
lauded as “the godfather of American paparazzo culture” by
Time and “Paparazzo Extraordinaire” by Newsweek. A native
New Yorker, Galella earned a degree in photojournalism from
the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and
began his career as a freelance magazine and newspaper
photographer in 1955. He is the author of five books,
including Jacqueline (Sheed & Ward, 1974), Offguard: A
Paparazzo Look at the Beautiful People (McGraw-Hill, 1976),
The Photographs of Ron Galella, 1965–1989 (Greybull Press,
2003), Ron Galella: Exclusive Diary (Photology, 2005) and
Disco Years (powerHouse Books, 2006). He has exhibited
at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, the Paul Kasmin
Gallery, New York, and the Kunstforum, Vienna, and his
iconic photos are displayed permanently on each of the
11 floors of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
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