His photos are revered by those who worship the iconic first lady for her poise and style, but according to Jackie herself, they came at an immeasurable cost to her own psychological well being. Three of MoMA’s images come from one three day period in October of 1971, and portray Galella’s longtime prey and favorite subject, Jackie O, whom Galella pursued so aggressively over two continents that she went to court twice to stop him from following her and her children John and Caroline.Īrguably Galella’s most famous image, this snapshot of jackie onassis on madison avenue in new york city, taken in 1971, is known as "windblown jackie." Ron Galella Six of Galella’s works are in MoMA’s permanent collection. His work is shown by New York’s prestigious Staley-Wise Gallery, which also represents photographers like Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and Herb Ritts. An admiring documentary about him, 2010’s Smash His Camera, played Sundance and HBO. He’d scribbled a personal inscription for me in the Trump book: “Let’s hope our president builds that wall!”īeyond fame, Galella has, later in life, also earned the trappings of mainstream artistic recognition. The French actress from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg? “Catherine Da Nerve.”) (Galella’s Bronx accent and verbal shorthands sometimes yield amazing results. “The only thing I don't like him for is he doesn't believe in the green,” Galella says, by which he means Trump’s environmental policies. His 19th book, 2017’s Donald Trump: The Master Builder, an opportunistic title he quickly produced after the 2016 election, is an admiring collection culled from his 32 years shooting Trump and family, and features Trump in a tux atop an illustration of a big gold escalator on the cover. Galella unabashedly equates fame with success, and so it might not be surprising to learn that he’s a devoted Trump fan. The cover of Donald Trump: The Master Builder by Ron Galella Courtesy Ron Galella “Don Johnson, 28-years-old, with Melanie Griffith, 18-years-old, before they were anybody!” The frames he took of a couple of sexy randos at a 1975 Doobie Brothers party in Beverly Hills? “Guess who it was?” he says. Galella’s first rule was “shoot everybody” regardless of whether he actually know who they were.
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The archive is a testament to the fleeting nature of celebrity a large portion of the files are labeled with the names of the once famous, or never-quite-famous, head scratchers like Phil Vandervoort and Dawn Lewis. It’s a staggering body of work, three million images taken by Galella and the 15 or so different photographers he employed over the years to be where he couldn’t. The basement is stuffed floor to ceiling with his meticulously catalogued archive of photos, shot between 1952 and the present. (It is where he's waiting out the coronavirus pandemic, with the help of a home health aide.) The entire first floor is a gallery of huge framed prints of his most famous images. When not in rehab, Galella lives alone in a mansion in New Jersey. (Since this interview he has published his 21st, Costume Galas and Parties 1967-2019, and is working on his 22nd, tentatively titled The '80s.) His 20th book, Shooting Stars, is in his lap, dozens of Post-It Notes poking out, denoting talking points for his greatest career hits-stalking Jackie and Liz, getting belted by Brando among them. Getty ImagesĪt 89, he remains the only paparazzo most people know by name he is mostly retired but still photographs the Met Gala every spring. Ron Galella at an exhibit of his work in New York City in 1975.
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