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Exclusive Clip: Smash His Camera's Ron Galella Explains His Jackie-licious Masterpiece

You've read the review, you've heard from the subjects, now see roughly 1/90th of Smash His Camera, director Leon Gast's new documentary about the life, times, travails and obsessions of legendary celebrity photographer and paparazzo Ron Galella. Among those obsessions: A vaguely unhealthy thing for Jackie Onassis, his own favorite subject and the woman in Galella's self-described masterpiece "Windblown Jackie." Click through to see and hear how he got the famous shot.

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