Jeff Vespa
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Jeff Vespa (b. 1970) is an American photographer, known as a co-founder of WireImage and celebrity photographer
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[edit] Photography career
Vespa is most widely known for being one of the co-founders of the photo agency website WireImage.com and it's parent company MediaVast. He was also the original designer of WireImage's grid layout design. This design has now been adopted as the photo industry standard. In March 2006, MediaVast announced that it would sell to Getty Images for about $200 million dollars in an all cash deal.
Starting in 2003, Vespa has been the official photographer of the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival since in 2006.
In 2004, he joined forces with Paris Hilton to create a NY Times Bestselling book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose which was followed the next year with Your Heiress Diary: Confess it All to Me.
[edit] Bibliography
- Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose (2004) - Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg, Photographs by Jeff Vespa Fireside ISBN: 074326665X
- Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All to Me (2005) - Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg, Photographs by Jeff Vespa Fireside ISBN 0743287142
- Party Confidential (2006) - Lara Shriftman and Elizabeth Harrison, Photographs by Jeff Vespa Bullfinch ISBN 0821257803
[edit] Filmography
- Rituals (1998) producer
- Tendrils (1996) producer
[edit] Exhibits
- Gallery at LoFi, LA, 2006 - Eat Me! Yummy New Photographs
- LAXART, LA, 2006 - One Shot: 100x100, Group Show
- Rush Arts Gallery, NY, 2006 - God Complex: Images Of Power, Group Show
- Traction 811, LA, 2004 - Hollywood Graffiti
[edit] Sources
- http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070222/getty_wireimage_jupitermedia.html?.v=1
- http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=501751
- http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?id=1314&siteSection=35
- http://www.abouttheimage.com/2006/12/wireimage_delta_air_lines_operating_celebrity_portrait_studio_at_sundance_film_festival.html
- http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117955640.html?categoryid=2178&cs=1&query=jeff+vespa
- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D10F9385B0C768CDDA80994DE404482
