Category: Paparazzi

  • Justin Bieber Goes Off on Another Pap — I’m Taking Your Memory Card Bitch!!!

    Justin Bieber Goes Off on Another Pap — I’m Taking Your Memory Card Bitch!!!

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    Justin Bieber Goes Off on Another Pap — I’m Taking Your Memory Card Bitch!!! Justin Bieber was the ringleader in a SECOND pap altercation in Miami Wednesday — ordering his goons to steal a photog’s camera … all while the man pled desperately for mercy — and the entire exchange was caught on tape. via…

  • French Photog Could Go to Jail Over Topless Pictures

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    French Photog Could Go to Jail Over Topless Pictures | PDNPulse A French magazine could be shut down and a photographer sent to jail over the publication last year of photographs of Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, sunbathing while on vacation in France. The magazine, called Closer, published top via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/04/french-photog-could-go-to-jail-over-topless-pictures.html…

  • Paparazzo Daniele Lo Presti Assassinated In Rome

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    Paparazzo Daniele Lo Presti Assassinated In Rome A leading paparazzo who has photographed many of the world’s biggest celebrities has been shot dead in Rome. Daniele Lo Presti was found with a single bullet in his head, prompting fears he had fallen victim to a Mafia-style execution. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/41374 Today’s post on the work…

  • Meditations on Photographs: A Terrified Young Woman Surrounded by A Group of Male Photographers by an unknown paparazzo

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    Link: Conscientious Extended | Meditations on Photographs: A Terrified Young Woman Surrounded by A Group of Male Photographers by an unknown paparazzo If you did not know anything about paparazzi your impression might be very different: A young woman surrounded by young men, in a very defensive posture, looking terrified – that’s imagery we usually…

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s videos of the paparazzi who shoot him

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s videos of the paparazzi who shoot him

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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s videos of the paparazzi who shoot him Joseph Gordon-Levitt whipped out his video camera and confronted some paparazzi who were firing flashbulbs in his face. They were dicks. via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/03/joseph-gordon-levitts-videos.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Joseph Gordon-Levitt whipped out his video camera and confronted some paparazzi

  • Reckless photography

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    Link: Reckless photography – latimes.com The best way to cope with this issue is not by passing new laws that target photojournalists but by more aggressively enforcing existing laws against driving too close, speeding, trespassing — and jaywalking

  • Justin Beiber Wants Stronger Anti-Paparazzi Law After Photographer’s Death

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    Justin Beiber Wants Stronger Anti-Paparazzi Law After Photographer’s Death Justin Beiber today called for new legislation after the death of a photographer who was hit by a car after crossing a busy highway on foot to photograph the star’s Ferrari last night. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/27145 “Humaidan, who has won several international awards in photojournalism, is…

  • California Anti-Paparazzi Law Fails First Court Challenge

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    California Anti-Paparazzi Law Fails First Court Challenge | PDNPulse A California law meant to impose special penalties on the paparazzi for reckless driving has  been declared unconstitutional by a Los Angeles County superior court judge, according to several news reports. Judge Thomas Rubinson said the law was too broad via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/11/california-anti-paparazzi-law-fails-first-court-challenge.html Judge Thomas Rubinson…

  • Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women

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    Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women The row over topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge continues. But Kate is not alone. Young women everywhere – famous and non-famous – are increasingly becoming victims of voyeurism in our internet age via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/22/creepshots-revenge-porn-paparazzi-women The row over topless pictures of the Duchess…

  • Russell Brand Agrees to Community Service for Throwing Photog’s iPhone

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    Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Russell Brand Agrees to Community Service for Throwing Photog’s iPhone Shortly after the incident, Brand made light of his actions on his Twitter feed with a post that said: “Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a…

  • Alec Baldwin — EXPLODES on Another Photog

    Alec Baldwin — EXPLODES on Another Photog

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    Alec Baldwin — EXPLODES on Another Photog Alec Baldwin got physical with ANOTHER photog in New York City moments ago … verbally blasting the guy in the middle of the street, squeezing his arm and ordering him to scram. via TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/29/alec-baldwin-paparazzi-attack-explodes-new-york-threat/ The source also says … when one resident asked the photog to stop…

  • Photojournalist or Paparazzo? A Distinction with a Difference

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    Photojournalist or Paparazzo? A Distinction with a Difference – NPPA Advocacy Committee All paparazzi are photographers. But not all photographers are paparazzi. The problem is that in a time of catchy phrases, it seems that many media outlets are unable or unwilling to take the time to distinguish between the two. In the aftermath of…

  • Another Alec Baldwin outburst

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    Link: Another Alec Baldwin outburst | JIMROMENESKO.COM

  • Ron Galella: America’s Most Famous Paparazzi Photographer

    Ron Galella: America’s Most Famous Paparazzi Photographer

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/14/ron-galella/#1 “The paparazzi culture has changed drastically,” he says. “When I did it, you had the great freedom to shoot—no fans, no security, no publicists. And I don’t miss it too much because I have the gold in my files.”

  • Whitney Houston: It’s also photojournalism

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie Paul Harris is the head of Pacific Coast News, one of the largest paparazzi agencies on the West Coast… ask yourself this, if it was not for the prying inquisitive media who would keep these people honest ? Ordinary people have to pay to get into clubs, abide by…

  • Paparazzi

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    VII The Magazine: In this interview with VII The Magazine, Jessica Dimmock, talks about her time with the modern paparazzo. They are young, male, aggressive, often foreign, and must go to increasingly dramatic lengths to get their images. Jessica discusses her experiences, the high speed car chases, trespassing, tipping informants and the secret alliances that…

  • Anne Hathaway channels paparazzi frustration into gangsta rap : Daily Dish

    Anne Hathaway channels paparazzi frustration into gangsta rap : Daily Dish

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    Anne Hathaway channels paparazzi frustration into gangsta rap AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer Actress Anne Hathaway has explained the reason behind her gangsta rap on late night TV earlier this week – she’s taken to writing rhymes to exercise her anger… via Daily Dish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=95675 Anne Hathaway rapped, “I’m a paparazzi/I don’t play no Yahtzee/I go…

  • Adrian Grenier’s ‘Meta’ Documentary on HBO – NYTimes.com

    Adrian Grenier’s ‘Meta’ Documentary on HBO – NYTimes.com

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    A Kid With a Camera and a Documenter Adrian Grenier, the star of HBO’s “Entourage,” has made a surprisingly well-thought-out documentary, “Teenage Paparazzo.” Link: http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/arts/television/27teenage.html?ref=television Those annoyed by the trendy term meta are going to be disinclined to tune in “Teenage Paparazzo,” a film about a 14-year-old who takes pictures of famous actors, made by…

  • Legislators prepare to vote on paparazzi crackdown – latimes.com

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    the California Newspaper Publishers Assn. argues that laws on the books already allow the prosecution of people who recklessly flout traffic and trespassing laws. Heaping new penalties on violators just because they are seeking photographs, the organization says, is an affront to the 1st Amendment. Link: Legislators prepare to vote on paparazzi crackdown – latimes.com

  • Jodie Foster Calls Teen's Claims She Attacked Him a 'Fabrication'

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    “This guy was most definitely a professional paparazzo,” the actress’s rep tells PEOPLE. “He had a large camera bag and 1000mm telephoto lens. He tailed Jodie and followed her all the way from the movie theater to the valet.” Link: Jodie Foster Calls Teen’s Claims She Attacked Him a ‘Fabrication’ – Crime & Courts, Jodie…