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"  If you&amp;#039;re ever at a party and you happen to spot a 6&amp;#039;4&amp;quot; middle-aged man in an acid-bright hoodie snapping pictures on a camera, tiny in his large paw, and you hear someone call out, &amp;quot;Hey, Johnny,&amp;quot; you can take it as a sign that, at least on this particular night, you&amp;#039;ve arrived. Jean Pigozzi (&amp;quot;Johnny&amp;quot; to friends, including Diane von Furstenberg, Russian art princess Dasha Zhukova, Mick Jagger, and hotelier Andr\u00E9 Balazs) is one of those people who, by diligently chronicling the rich and famous, become semifamous themselves\u2014though Pigozzi was always rich. He doesn&amp;#039;t self-identify as an artist, but the Paris-raised, Harvard-educated, half Italian, half French scion of a European auto tycoon is certainly a cultural soothsayer. Pigozzi began taking diaristic, offhand personal photos of the beau monde in the &amp;#039;60s\u2014long before the smartphone generation took hold. &amp;quot;Now people say to me, `Why aren&amp;#039;t you here taking pictures? What, my party is no good?!&amp;#039;\u2009&amp;quot; he says. With the money required for entr\u00E9e and the fun\u2014seemingly his favorite word\u2014personality of the archetypal 1950s European playboy (as well as the requisite accent), Pigozzi is the antipaparazzi, someone with whom the hounded can let down their guard and indulge their vanity. In 2010, he joined the ranks of the stars he documents, with four decades&amp;#039; worth of party pics exhibited at the Gagosian. &amp;quot;If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored,&amp;quot; Pigozzi says over a spotty Skype line from Panama, where he recently built a marine institute for ecological research. His other pursuits include tech-investing, amassing a major collection of contemporary African art, and, since 2007, designing LimoLand, a menswear line based on his own outsize (literally and figuratively) style: eye-popping djellabas, swim trunks dotted with currency symbols. We&amp;#039;re unexpectedly drawn to the hot-purple sweater with canary elbow patches\u2014for us. The colorful life is infectious. MORE: We break down everything you need to know about today&amp;#039;s art scene "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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