Galella said he didn’t like shooting funerals and Phil Ramey’s photo of the body bag of Rock Hudson went “too far,” he once said. “When a celebrity doesn’t want any more photos, I leave. Usually. The game is to get them before they say that so you can do it.”
Photographer Patrick McMullan said Tuesday that Galella was “a celebrity hound long before the rest of the world caught up with him.” As a collector of some of Galella’s photographs, McMullan said, “If you look at some of his photographs in his, there are things that he has that would never have been seen had he not been stalking people.”
In his true never-say-die style, Galella enlisted his friend Paul Schmulbach to snap him wearing a football helmet going for another try with Brando. Despite being known as “The Godfather of the paparazzi,” Galella didn’t feel he had any responsibility for the increasingly competitive profession. From his standpoint, it was due to the magazines paying high amounts of money for an exclusive take on celebrities.
So agile was he that he once slid into an elevator at The Plaza hotel with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, their lawyer and publicist — and exited with snaps of Taylor and her dog. However, another attempt to catch the powerhouse couple during the filming of “Hammersmith Is Out” in Mexico led to the set crew beating him up, as “the police just watched,” according to Galella, who was later jailed.
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