{"id":27346,"date":"2023-11-19T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=27346"},"modified":"2023-11-18T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T21:57:17","slug":"fingering-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/fingering-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"fingering the press"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27358\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/paparazzi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27358\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/paparazzi-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Lady Diane by Alison Jackson courtesy of Westlicht<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. An honourable branch of photography is news photography. While many news photographers work for a specific newspaper or agency, many are \u00a0free lance. Of the group, a small subset caters to shooting celebrities incessantly and trying to flog the results to gossip magazines or the yellow press. Collectively, such photographers are known as \u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlicht.com\/westlicht\/en\/home\">paparazzi&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paparazzi\">paparazzi<\/a>&#8216; means &#8216;mosquitoes&#8217; in Italian slang. Victims of paparazzi try their best to avoid or lose these pesky nuisances but not always with success &#8211; witness the deadly consequence such an attempted evasion had on Diane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlicht.com\/westlicht\/en\/home\">WestLicht<\/a> in Vienna is featuring photographs by paparazzi in an exhibition of the same name from Nov 24 this year through to February 11, 2024. Have a look at the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. An honourable branch of photography is news photography. While many news photographers work for a specific newspaper or agency, many are \u00a0free lance. Of the group, a small subset caters to shooting celebrities incessantly and trying to flog the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/fingering-the-press\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2157,402,686],"class_list":["post-27346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-news-photographer","tag-people","tag-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27372,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346\/revisions\/27372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}