Category: Paparazzi
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SFGate: Daily Dish : Rodriguez Defends Paparazzo Attack
In video footage, which made its way online, the actress is seen leaping out of the wheelchair and chasing the photographer through a parking lot. Check it out here.
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SFGate: Daily Dish : Wentz In 'Struggle To Sell' Baby Snaps
A source tells the publication, “Pete and Ashlee have approached every single celebrity magazine with offers to sell their first photos, but nobody wants them. Covers of them tend not to sell well.” Check it out here.
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Brad Elterman: Then and Now – A Photography Blog.
I became fascinated with Brad Elterman’s classic rock imagery (and amazing caption-writing) from the ’70s and ’80s at the inception of this blog, and was recently in touch with him about his current activities. He continues to shape the paparazzi industry from the inside– he’s now a co-founder of Buzz Foto. A little Q&A follows.…
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A good year for the paparazzi? Just ask Amy and Peaches | Life and style | The Observer
Every morning Paul Convery walks out of his front door to be confronted by piles of discarded coffee cups and sandwich wrappings. There is an unmistakable stench of urine. The pavements are filled with stocky, intimidating men with glowering expressions and the parking spaces have all been taken by battered 4x4s that have not paid…
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Brad And Angelina's Guards Fight With Paparazzi On Chateau Grounds
Freelance photographer Luc Goursolas said he broke a guard’s finger and bit another until he bled, and that they hit him with a walkie-talkie, punched and kicked him, leaving a head wound that required three stitches. “I was pouring blood. I threw myself at them, put blood all over them, and told them that I…
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SFGate: Daily Dish : Paparazzi Fire Hoax Disgusted New Mom Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal had an early taste of what it’s like to be a famous new mom when members of the paparazzi reported a fake fire at the actress’ apartment block – just so she’d come out into the street with her baby Check it out here.
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Hugh Grant wins photo damages
Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley and her husband Arun Nayar have accepted £58,000 damages for invasion of privacy over photographs taken of them on holiday reports Reuters. The images taken by Big Pictures (UK) Ltd and Eliot Press SARL were taken covertly whilst the three were on holiday in the Maldives it was claimed. Check it…
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Paparazzi accused of framing Heath Ledger for drug video
The tactics of the Hollywood paparazzi were back in the spotlight yesterday after two photographers were accused of having supplied cocaine to the actor Heath Ledger so they could try secretly to videotape him snorting the drug Check it out here.
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Jury: Photogs Share Blame For Diana Death – PDNPulse
A British jury has found that Princess Diana’s death in a car accident was the result of negligence on the part of the car’s driver and the paparazzi photographers who were chasing her. Check it out here.
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Paparazzi Play Set – I Want One Of Those
Now you can bask in the spotlight of your very own red carpet experience, without the indignity of having yourself splattered across the brain-numbing pages of fatuous magazines. These nine members of the worlds snapping media come complete with the ethical and moral depth of an earthworm, are blissfully mute, and will make you feel…
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Has Ashton Kutcher 'Punk'd' the paparazzi? – USATODAY.com
“He’s really changed my life,” Paris Hilton told paparazzi from her car, adding she offered the necklace “because the greatest gift is to give.” Turns out, as some outlets later discovered, the “mystic” was an actor named Maxie Santillan Jr., who has appeared on CSI and My Name Is Earl. And though some accused Hilton…
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The Rise of the 'Citizen Paparazzi' – WSJ.com
Increasingly, nonprofessionals are positioning themselves alongside press photographers, said Brian Ach, a full-time freelancer for celebrity-photo agency WireImage, which is also owned by Getty. “It becomes difficult when there are marked spots for traditional agencies at an event, and somebody with a little point-and-shoot shows up and says, ‘Well, I’m with so-and-so Web site,” he…
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Shooting stars in Berlin – Reuters Photographers
: The Berlinale film festival in February opens the annual season in the winter cold of the German capital. Paparazzi stalk stars outside restaurants and hotels all looking for exclusive pictures. We concentrate more on the daily photo calls, press conferences and the red carpet premieres at the festival cinema. I have covered the festival nearly every year since 1991 and things have changed a lot in…
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To pap or not to pap? – Reuters Photographers
: And everytime Madonna’s car stopped it would send photographers and cameramen into a frenzy – abandoning their vehicles on the roads and rushing towards her car with cameras hanging from their shoulders. It was surprising that no photographer got injured, either as a result of the crush or the baton-wielding policemen. This time too,…
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Lavigne Defends Spitting on Photographers
SF Gate’s Daily Dish: Canadian singer Avril Lavigne defends spitting on photographers outside a Hollywood nightclub because they are “scum.” The 22-year-old was leaving Hollywood hotspot Hyde when she was bombarded by a pack of paparazzi and she lashed out. She tells Seventeen magazine, “I was at Hyde and there were a million paparazzi guys.…