Ron Galella, who died at the age of 91 due to heart failure, made history by becoming the first great paparazzi who met the world.
La glamorous reality of the stars, the one that became popular in gossip magazines and later on internet pages, was largely forged by the work that Galella carried out for so many years.
Andy Warhol, Jackie Onassis, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren and Paul Newman were just some of its best known and recurring protagonists.
This american photographer, born on January 10, 1931 in New York, helped shape pop culture thanks to his stolen snapshots.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1968. Source: The Museum of Modern Art
His work has aged really well and is now an important piece of history.
At his best, the black-and-white images he created throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s captured celebrities of various walks of life in public spaces but with a haunting intimacy.
Jackie Onassis photographed by Ron Galella. Source: The Museum of Modern Art
Over the years, the photographs he took, due to their high quality, became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.