contessanally: Conegliano - Palazzo Sarcinelli - Ron Galella - Paparazzo Superstar

Photograph and copyright - Manfredi Bellati

Conegliano - Palazzo Sarcinelli

Ron Galella - Paparazzo Superstar

At Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano, Northwest of Venice, the exhibition Ron Galella, Paparazzo Superstar, until January 29 - curated by Alberto Damian and produced and organised by Sime Books and the City of Conegliano. Ron Galella was the most famous paparazzo in the history of photography and this exhibition brings together over 180 portraits of celebrities, actors, musicians and artists from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, selected from the more than 3 million shots that make up the immense archive of the photographer: the photographs, mostly in white and black, are accompanied by the story that tells how they were made, allowing you to discover the background of the iconic shots.

Alberto Damian

curator

"my obsession and my personal Mona Lisa!"

One room of the exhibition is dedicated to Jackie Kennedy Onassis, defined by Galella as "my obsession and my personal Mona Lisa" to whom the famous image called "Windblown Jackie" was considered by Time Magazine as "one of the 100 most influential photographs of all Time."

Joy Smith

Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Ron Galella

Windblown Jackie

New York City - 7 October 1971

"My top two selling photographs - John Lennon and Mick Jagger and Windblown Jackie - have one thing in common, none of the subjects knew they were being photographed."

John Lennon and Mick Jagger - with May Pang

L.A. - 13 March 1974

Second Annual American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards

honoring James Cagney at the Century Plaza Hotel

"Although my photos are still, they all have movement!"

Nally Bellati

Ron Galella

Milan - 28 September 2004

Photology Gallery

The Magazine Covers

Richard Burton and Elisabeth Taylor

"When Sophia Loren arrived at the after party for the "Dr. Zhivago" premiere... I photographed her at her table. Finishing up my take, I asked her what she found fascinating about the star's Omar Sharif. 'His eyes!" she said making an expressive gesture. "I though the Italians had the most beautiful eyes; now I think the Egyptian have!"

Sophia Loren

New York City - 22 December 1965

Dr. Zhivago - Premiere Party at the American Hotel

"A year after Marlon Brando punched me in Chinatown, he scheduled a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

to announce the benefit for Native American Indians. This time I came prepared wearing a helmet.... this photo the following week,

this soon-to-be-iconic shot ran in People magazine....

this photo and the photo of me taken with Jackie - see above - by Joy Smith have become the two most famous and requested pictures of me with a celebrity."

Paul Schmulbach

Marlon Brando and Ron Galella

New York City - 26 November 1974

The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel