![]() ![]() READ MORE Kanye Thinks He Is Michelangelo In another clip, a handful of photographers run after Marcello’s car, calling out after him: “Tell me where you are going!!” Four clips from La Dolce Vita are screened, notably the famous camera mob greeting Anita Ekberg as she sashays down from her Alitalia flight blowing kisses. Fellini had actual press photographers on set to leak tidbits to keep the sensationalism around the film alive. Paparazzo was, in fact, the name of a photographer in his film. ![]() The work was gathered over three years, and Chéroux, who partnered with Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography at the MoMA, clarifies that it’s an impartial exhibition-there are no “sides.” Divided into three parts-photographers, stars, and artists-the show provides a dense but clear-eyed look at this inexorable, seething facet of pop culture.įurther on, a room dedicated to La Dolce Vita explains that Fellini not only coined the term “paparazzi” in 1960-it’s a contraction of "pappataci" (mosquitoes) and "ragazzi" (ruffians)-but he also pulled ideas directly from press headlines to fuel his rambling, hedonistic film. (The venue alone is worth seeing, with its astonishing undulating roof designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.)įor the show, curator Clément Chéroux, head of the photography department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (and who is also responsible for the current Henri Cartier-Bresson retrospective), examined not only the ties between the photographer and the photographed over the past half-century, but also framed that relationship in relation to the art world. Paparazzi! Photographers, Stars and Artists opened Thursday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz contemporary art museum, and will remain on display through June 9. ![]() A compelling new exhibition in Paris scrutinizes, visually and conceptually, the ways in which Western society manufactures and devours paparazzi-produced pop culture. And our collective obsession with celebrity only feeds this madness. From furtive nude photos of Jackie Kennedy Onassis to the latest shot of Paris Hilton falling out of her dress, photographers have been chasing down stars at inopportune moments for over half a century. ![]()
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