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| | ArtForum: Shooting stars - paparazzi |
 | | Despite the pleasures of saying "paparazzo" when we mean "taker of candid celebrity photographs," we should understand that the paparazzo is a fiction, not a vocation; it is a complicated cultural construction, composed certainly of recognizable behaviors but also of misty projections. |
 | | The paparazzo can only condemn himself (the paparazzo, in myth, is always male) with the image he has pilfered: the image is proof of the perforation, the laceration he has committed in the fabric of the decent, the private, the civic. |
 | | Though the celebrity is the one ostensibly invaded, the paparazzo is also making vivid - making documentary - his own abject status as voleur, voyeur, render of veils: he is publicizing his abrupt ejection from the civilized. |
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