“Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.” IfsKnowsWellsBookMomentsDiscoveryPhotographerShooting Author:Jeff Vespa
“My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.” PersonsRealWholeBeautifulBlackWhiteSpecialMomSceneMy FriendsCamerasPhotographerMy MomErasPunkBlack And WhitePortraitsManualsBaltimoreCanonSpecial Times Author:Jeff Vespa
“There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our preschool - I went to a Montessori school in Baltimore, Maryland - and they had this photographer come and take all these incredible photographs. They looked like they were from Life magazine.” MomentsSchoolScenePhotographerIncrediblesPhotographI RealizedMagazinesCapturePunkBaltimoreMontessoriPreschoolMaryland Author:Jeff Vespa
“My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider himself an artist, but he was probably one of the artists of the 20th century. This guy documented all of Paris during those years. It's unbelievable. The books are phenomenal. The Museum of Modern Art has all his stuff now and [American photographer] Berenice Abbott saved his work. Not very much is known about his life, but the work is unreal and it totally spoke to me. He was the only artist for a number of years that I cared about at all.” YearsArtBookArtistGuyStuffNumbersKnownTeacherModernCenturyLatePhotographerSavedParisSpokesMuseums20th CenturyUnbelievableThis GuyUnrealPhenomenalModern Art Author:Jeff Vespa
“A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal progression. It wasn't some crazy idea, it was just, "Can we start our own agency? Can we do this?"” PeopleYearsIdeasDoneTodayCrazyNormalPhotographerAgencyProgressionCrazy Ideas Author:Jeff Vespa
“It 2001 when we started. But prior to that, I had made this website called sundancepics.com, where me and this other photographer, Randall Michelson, could sell our images from Sundance online and it was successful. Steve Granitz, who's my main partner at WireImage, we were already working together, and I was like, "Look dude, this is it. We can do this."” LooksMadeTogetherCan DoSuccessfulSellsPhotographerPartnersOnlineWorking TogetherWebsiteSundance Author:Jeff Vespa
“I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought, "This can not be real. This is ridiculous. No one advertizes this!" I was really suspect about it.” WantSaidRealWantedJobsCoursesHoursChanceSawsEventsOne DayHollywoodPhotographerCome UpRidiculousSuspectsAdsBeing RealCan NotLabsDisneylandOne HourPremieresFooling Around Author:Jeff Vespa
