Julia Roberts and Jason Patric in the back of a taxi © Ron Galella
I just read this Wired article wherein the author hires her own paparazzo at $500/hr to stalk her throughout the day. The goal is to take "artful images that look unstaged and off-the-cuff." First, the images do not look like paparazzi images so much as the photos they find taped all over the bedroom walls of the quiet neighbor who just stalked you for three years before murdering you in the elevator.
Second, this is further evidence that our cultural engine is running on fumes. I have not put the numbers into the computer yet, but I have a theory that our culture is about to become so self-referential that it collapses under it's own weight of ironic self-awareness and forms a giant black hole of metaness.
Labels: Paparazzi, The End is Nigh
4 Comments:
i remembered Sophie Calle
unbelievable.
I've heard it's kind of popular now. People will hire their own "paparazzi" to take pictures of them at the grocery store or on dates.
yes funny you mention it. my husband who is an avid street photographer was on his way to photograph a few weeks ago. while pulling out his camera to start his day he inadvertently caught the attention of Justin Timberlake. of course he hadn't even noticed it was Justin Timberlake in front of him until Justin Timberlake whipped around and yelled at him...
But later, talking to the only paparazzo he knows, he found out that JT and JB had hired this paparazzo to follow them during their trip to Italy to feed photos to the press. JT was annoyed when he took pics of them kissing...and he later complained to the paparazzo about "Some photographer chasing him" (my husband)... and well... there you go. They make money to take the pics and money then selling them!!!
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