

The Museum of Modern Art - Iconic Photos of Ron Galella acquired into collection, October 2007 New York, New York The Museum of Modern Art - Iconic Photos of Ron Galella acquired into collection, January 2008 New York, New York The Tate Modern Museum - Street + Stuido: An Urband History of Photography, May 2008-August 2008 London, England The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Warhol by Galella: That's Great!, May 2008 - Present Hollywood, CA Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen - Warhol by Galella: That's Great!, May 2008 - Present Amsterdam, Netherlands Staly-Wise Gallery - Warhol by Galella: That's Great!, May 2008 - Present New York, New York GMW Law Offices - Offguard: Ron Galella Photography, October 2008 - Present Den Haag, Netherlands Helmut Newton Foundation Museum of Photography - Pigozi and the Paparazzi, June 2008-November 2008 Berlin, Germany Hamburger Bahnfof Museum Fur Gegenwart - Celebrities: Andy Warhol and the Stars October 2008-February 2009 Palazzo Lanfranchi, Carlo Levi Hall - Ron Galella: Italian Icons, May 2009-JMatera, Italy Archeology Museum of Muro Lucano - Viva l'Italia, May 2009 - Present La Casa Encendida - March 28, 2009-June 14, 2009, Madrid, Spain MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto - Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, July 11-OctoRovereto, Italy Centaur Theatre Company - Viva l'Italia, October 6, 2009-DecemMontreal, Canada Irish Museum of Modern Art - Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, November 25, 2009-FebruDublin, Ireland Lena Di Gangi Gallery - The Photographs of Ron Galella, December 5, 2009-JanuTotawa, NJ PowerHouse Arena - Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson by Ron Galella, January 7, 2009-FebruBrooklyn, NY


Galella is the subject of a 2010 documentary film directed by Leon Gast entitled Smash His Camera. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife of 30 years, Betty Burke Galella. Galella had pursued Brando, who was accompanied by Dick Cavett, to the restaurant after a taping of The Dick Cavett Show earlier that day.Ī Bronx native, Galella served as a United States Air Force photographer during the Korean War and attended the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California, graduating with a degree in Photojournalism in 1958. On June 12, 1973, notoriously-reclusive actor Marlon Brando punched Galella without warning outside a restaurant in Chinatown in New York City, breaking the photographer's jaw and knocking out five of his teeth.

In his in-home darkroom, Galella makes his own prints which have been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in both New York and San Francisco, the Tate Modern in London, and the Helmut Newton Foundation Museum of Photography in Berlin. Galella is willing to take great risks to get the perfect shot. Onassis", she obtained a restraining order to keep Galella 150 feet away from her and her children.
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The New York Post called them "the most co-dependent celeb-paparazzi relationships ever." In the famous 1972 free-speech trial "Galella v. He is widely-known for his obsessive treatment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the subsequent legal battles associated with it. Galella's photographs can be seen in hundreds of publications including Time, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, the New York Times and Life. paparazzi culture" by Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, he is regarded as the most controversial celebrity photographer in the world. Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by Newsweek and "the Godfather of the U.S. Ron Galella (born January 10, 1931) is an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo.
