There will always be paparazzi shots that cross over into celebrity and portrait photography. The exhibition offers an overview and critical look at the history of a photographic genre dedicated to fame and sensationalism. Presenting approximately 350 B/W and colour prints by Salomon, Weegee, Galella, Quinn, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Pigozzi and Newton, the exhibition displays the forerunners and central figures of Paparrazi Photography – and provides a visual commentary about the evolution of this phenomenon. For example, the photographer Ron Galella lost several teeth when he suffered a well-aimed punch from Marlon Brando thereafter he often wore an American Football helmet any time he expected to come across Brando at a public event. Nevertheless, once in a while a fight would break out between the hunter and the hunted when a photographer got too close or was discovered in his hiding-place. They were taken “from a safe distance” with the photographer often going unnoticed. In hardly any of these photographs was there ever time for the subject to strike a pose. We encounter Alain Delon and Prince Charles, Mick Jagger and Woody Allen, Sophia Loren and Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot and Marlene Dietrich at parties, on the street, at the beach and so on.
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