[color:c58c=black][font:c58c=Arial]The worldwide obsession with celebrities spawns one of the most fascinating and feared by-products of pop culture -- [b]paparazzi[/b]. Paparazzi are [b]photographers[/b] who tirelessly hunt [b]celebrities[/b], public figures and their families for the opportunity to photograph them in candid, unflattering and at times compromising moments. What began as simple "street photography" is now a high-stakes game of cat and mouse that plays out in the everyday lives of the paparazzi's celebrity prey. As our cultures' voracious hunger for celebrity [url=http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/camera.htm][color:c58c=#005288]snapshots[/color][/url] grows, so do the prices of these photos and the risks paparazzi take to get them. Many ethical, legal and privacy issues arise out of this questionable business. [/font][/color][center]
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[color:c58c=black][font:c58c=Arial]How do paparazzi get those shots? How do they sell their pictures? To whom do they sell them? How do they get away with what they do? In this article, HowStuffWorks looks at those questions as well as the laws surrounding this issue and how celebrities are fighting back.[/font][/color]
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