Striking black-and-white images hark back to the golden age of photo-journalism and capture the drama of life in the spotlight Celebrities rule the modern world, and following close behind them are the paparazzi, fueling the media’s endless fascination with the rich and famous, while they themselves keep a low profile, fading chameleon-like into the background. For more than forty years, Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain have photographed movie stars and models, rock stars and royalty. Over the decades, they’ve honed the instincts required to capture the moment when a glance, a pose, and a setting are most perfectly matched. From London to Paris, Hollywood to Cannes, here is a star-studded selection of people who live their lives in the spotlight, sometimes welcoming the camera, sometimes pursued by it. Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Kate Moss are among the iconic faces glimpsed at unguarded moments, in encounters that can be intimate, witty, or confrontational. 108 illustrations
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Les paparazzi ont mauvaise reputation: ils sont curieux, trop curieux, violent les intimites, vendraient (cher) leur ame pour un scoop, et s'amusent a montrer ce qui ne devrait pas etre vu. Voici donc les memoires de l'un d'entre eux, Pascal Rostain, le King d'une profession dont on medit volontiers - tout en se rincant l'oeil. De Johnny Halliday a Francois Mitterrand, de Jean-Paul II a Francois Hollande, d'Orson Welles a Marlon Brando, de Nicolas Sarkozy a George W. Bush, de Carla a Valerie, ce Breton opiniatre a tout shoote le secret, l'indicible, l'idylle, les seins - et le reste. Ses cliches, publies dans Paris Match, ont fait le tour du monde. Pour la premiere fois, il passe derriere son objectif. Et il raconte...