| When the famous movie stars walk down that red | | | | battle for their share of this new digital pie. |
| carpet, thousands of photos are taken by hundreds of | | | | All of these concerns can be seen on the faces of |
| photographers. Many shots will be posed and still many | | | | stars if you look very closely. But in the glitz and hurry |
| more will be looking to make the star seem foolish or | | | | of the red carpet scene, photos that show more than |
| poorly dressed, but a very few will reach inside the | | | | a dress or a hairdo are seldom seen. These photos |
| star and show a side that is rarely seen. | | | | must be mined like the gold they are. These actors are |
| These are the photos that turn those famous movie | | | | not famous movie stars for nothing, they have learned |
| stars into real people. But these photos are rare and | | | | to play a part and that "part" is what the public most |
| don't normally come from the paparazzi. The | | | | often sees. Even on the red carpet though, there are |
| paparazzi shoot for the exploitive and outrageous | | | | brief moments of clarity. |
| images, that's what they get paid for. For the | | | | During those brief moments as the stars on the red |
| paparazzi the order of the day is shoot more, shoot | | | | carpet move down the gauntlet, the true |
| often and see what you have shot once you | | | | photographers capture more than the facade of these |
| download them to your computer. | | | | famous movie stars. They photograph a piece of the |
| During the 90s several technological changes took | | | | true personality, the kind of photo that tells much more |
| place, the biggest of which was the birth of the digital | | | | than a 1000 word story. A photo that shows some |
| age. The digital age had its victims though, one of the | | | | insight into what makes this person the star they have |
| biggest being film cameras, at least where still | | | | become. |
| cameras were concerned. With digital photography the | | | | Every decade has its share of famous movie stars, |
| job of the paparazzi became that much easier, | | | | the 90s was no different. The 90s stars just had to |
| cheaper and faster. | | | | learn to do it digitally. The same way every |
| The digital "new media" also became a concern for | | | | photographer had to face the digital age as well. But |
| famous movie stars during the 90s as this new | | | | whether the photo was taken digitally or on film, it was |
| medium cut into the once gigantic actor salaries. Even | | | | still up to the man behind the camera to know when |
| though the 90s were another groundbreaking decade | | | | the moment was right. The stars just create the |
| for films and filmmakers, actors had to begin a long | | | | moments, the photographers have to catch them. |
