Back when Jeff Vespa first started snapping photographs at Sundance, the internet was called the World Wide Web and the only thing digital about cameras was that you needed a finger to press the button. “I had to hand-build the web pages every night after shooting,” he remembers. “We’d send an assistant to get the film developed in Salt Lake City, bring it back, and at 3 in the morning, I’d be scanning slides into the computer.”
That hand-built website, SundancePix.com, went live in 2000 and was the precursor for a new photo agency called WireImage, which launched 25 years ago this month. For the next two decades, it made Vespa the film festival’s favorite photographer. He and his crew — which at one point filled Park City with about 100 assistants, bookers and editors — roamed all over, capturing every young breakout, maverick filmmaker and crazy producer trudging through the snow in Utah.
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