- Jeff Vespa
Jeff Vespa (born 1970) is an American
photographer , known as a co-founder of WireImage and celebrity photographerPhotography career
Vespa is most widely known for being one of nine co-founders of the photo agency website WireImage.com and its 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 February 2007, MediaVast announced that it would sell to
Getty Images for $207 million dollars in an all cash deal.Starting in 2003, Vespa has been the official photographer of the
Sundance Film Festival and theToronto International Film Festival since 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.
Film career
Vespa attended the
American Film Institute Graduate Program for Producing in 1993. He produced theLifetime Television movie Rituals in 1998 which starred Isaiah Washington and Regina King. More recently he produced, wrote and directed the 10 minute short film Nosebleed starringDavid Arquette . The film had it's premiere at theSouth By Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) in March 2008 and then screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival as a part of the Semaine de la Critique section.Bibliography
* (2004) -
Paris Hilton andMerle Ginsberg , Photographs by Jeff VespaFireside ISBN 978-0-7432-6665-9
* (2005) -Paris Hilton andMerle Ginsberg , Photographs by Jeff VespaFireside ISBN 978-0-7432-8714-2
* Party Confidential (2006) -Lara Shriftman andElizabeth Harrison , Photographs by Jeff VespaBullfinch ISBN 978-0-8212-5780-7Filmography
* Nosebleed (2008) Producer, Writer and Director
* Rituals (1998) producer
* Tendrils (1996) producerExhibits
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Flinn Gallery Greenwich, CT, 2008 - Food...Glorious Food, Group Show
*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 GraffitiSources
* http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cannes_film_festival_2008/news/1728420/
* http://www.photoinduced.com/archives/819
* http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2007/09/wireimages-jeff.html?query=%22jeff+vespa%22
* http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=501751
* http://www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?id=1314
* 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
* http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D10F9385B0C768CDDA80994DE404482External links
* [http://www.jeffvespa.com/ Official website]
* [http://jeffvespa.blogspot.com/ Jeff Vespa blog]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/425225776/jeff-vespa.html Artnet]
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* [http://www.wireimage.com/ WireImage]
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