{"id":28756,"date":"2010-05-26T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=28756"},"modified":"2010-05-26T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:03:16","slug":"smash-his-camera-hbo-documentary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2010\/05\/26\/smash-his-camera-hbo-documentary-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash His Camera HBO Documentary Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an ironic twist of fate, infamous and controversial celebrity photographer Ron Galella is the subject of HBO&#8217;s Documentary Films&#8217; &#8216;Smash His Camera,&#8217; the 2010 Sundance Film Festival winner for best director.\u00a0 Academy Award-winning documentarian Leon Gast aimed to chronicle the life of the self-described paparazzo \u2018superstar.\u2019\u00a0 In the process, the director sparked a never-ending but relevant debate about privacy versus free speech and whether or not Galella should be glorified for his &#8216;hit-and-run&#8217; celebrity photography.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Smash His Camera&#8217; brilliantly records Galella&#8217;s rise as a paparazzo who started as a U.S. Air Force photographer before he started using imaginative and deceptive ways to snap pictures of the rich and famous.\u00a0 Gast also interestingly weaves Galella&#8217;s back-story with his secrets on how to successfully photograph celebrities at events.\u00a0 His critics call these tricks, which include dressing for the occasion and forging credentials, &#8216;tips on being sociopathic.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The documentary also heavily focuses on Galella&#8217;s love and passion for shooting former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis between 1967 and 1982.\u00a0 The name of the film came from Onassis\u2019 order to her Secret Service men to &#8216;Smash his camera&#8217; while he was shooting her in a park in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Gast made a brave, but smart, choice when he decided to document the life of such a despised photographer.\u00a0 While he may receive backlash for trying to glorify the life of someone whom many celebrities look down upon, Gast wisely choose to show fellow photographers, lawyers and magazine editors who both support and shun the persistent paparazzo.\u00a0 Photographer Neil Leifer, for example, called Galella a stalker, while Peter Howe, the author of &#8216;Paparazzi&#8217; and the former photography editor of Life Magazine, called him &#8220;Passionate, which separates him from others.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was also sensible choice to include Galella&#8217;s pictures throughout the documentary, to show his passion.\u00a0 After seeing his pictures, which are shown in New York galleries, are housed in a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art and have been published in two coffee table books, it\u2019s easy to see that while he has gotten some great shots, a lot of times he captured images by pure luck.\u00a0 Galella said he often times just 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