Number of works: around 80 b&w and colour photographs 
Available: From September 2011 
Contact: Ana Berruguete

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. Ron Galella born in the Brox, N.Y, 1931, is known as a pioneer paparazzo. 

Dubbed Paparazzo Extraordinaire by Newsweek and the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture by Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, he is regarded as the most controversial celebrity photographer in the world. He is widely-known for his obsessive treatment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the subsequent legal battles associated with it. The New York Post called them "the most codependent celeb-paparazzi relationships ever. "In the famous 1972 free-speech trial "Galella v. Onassis", she obtained a restraining order to keep Galella 150 feet away from her and her children. Galella is willing to take great risks to get the perfect shot.