Fotografi insolenti / Paparazzo today - ITA / ENG
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ENG – Paparazzo today - Taking photographs of celebrities and the most popular characters was a very successful trend in the years of the economic boom. The images of the stars quickly replaced those of the royal families or of the Popes and of all those official ceremonies involving sovereigns, princesses, and authorities in general, who still lived in an "unreachable" world and appeared too distant from a modest public or uneducated. The figure of the photographer on the elegant streets of the "dolce vita" was often feared, sometimes respected, but always considered as "the indiscreet eye" of the worldly press focused on the private life of the most famous actors and personalities. The neologism "paparazzo", coined by Federico Fellini, referred to the photographer Tazio Secchiaroli who, at the exit of the nightclubs, used to seize famous actors in inappropriate circumstances or companies (now we would appear candid and innocent situations) and for this reason it often provoked violent reactions from the interested parties who inexplicably did not want to be taken back and "end up in the newspapers", jealous of their private life. The Italians have always been greedy for gossip and the "scandalous" photographs made the fortune of many magazines. Not all the public was so naive as to totally believe that between the photojournalist and the subject sometimes there was not a secret complicity, so through a tacit agreement the photo shoot, once published, would turn into an expedient to give to the star, not entirely blameless, further fame and notoriety.Today vips incessantly post their banal selfies (even private moments) to have greater visibility. If, in fact, by chance no photographer worthy of attention the artistic performance or partying of the television character or of the footballer or even of the politician "chatted", it is the interested parties themselves that through their own sophisticated mobile phone and thanks to fast connections to social networks and all media outlets, broadcast the images of their most recent night-time undertaking, or reveal the mysterious suitor and the compromising institutional alliance. Only in part does reason find itself in pure exhibitionism. These are always episodes of media strategy and not of simple manifestations of personal vanity. We are all aware that we now live in a society in which every event is documented by images: everything that is not visible is not apparent. As if it never happened. Add to this that our memory tends to forget more and more rapidly those characters whose image ceases to "bombard us" daily through newspapers, television programs and websites. Currently, but perhaps not for long, to keep the attention of the public on themselves, VIPs will be sufficient to spread the selfies taken during a dinner with friends or those during a weekend with the last flirt, to be able to present again as active protagonists of the modern "image society".