![]() ![]() ![]() Titled Paparazzi! - Photographers and Stars from the Dolce Vita to the Present Day, the exhibition serves as a peculiar visual itinerary through the practice of so-called "stolen photography", through which it is possible to reconstruct historical moments and phenomena of custom, in an ongoing reflection on the roles and functions of photography.īringing together photos from the 1950s right up to its developments in contemporary imagery, the show features the rich and famous, “along with those who would have liked to become so,” as explained by curator Walter Guadagnini.Īgenzia Dufoto - Paparazzi in vespa seguono l’auto di Soraya Roma, 1959 circa The Beginnings of Paparazzi Photography The current exhibition at Gallerie d’Italia, Palazzo Leoni Montanari at Intesa Sanpaolo’s museum in Vicenza, Italy explores the history of this pop-cultural phenomenon, tracking its evolution from Fellini to infamy. Ever since, paparazzi photography has been inspiring mixed feelings, influencing customs, fashions and sometimes even deciding the very fate of the one or ones featured in those images. It was first introduced to the culture at large by the Italian director Federico Fellini and his film La Dolce Vita, in which Marcello Mastroianni plays a disenchanted tabloid reporter who lurks around the nightlife in Rome looking for his next story, followed by a photographer called Paparazzo. It has been almost sixty years that the term "paparazzi" was coined.
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