{"id":2244016,"date":"2026-01-21T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2244016"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:53:19","slug":"one-of-sundances-biggest-surprise-hits-a-fledgling-photo-agency-called-wireimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/one-of-sundances-biggest-surprise-hits-a-fledgling-photo-agency-called-wireimage\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Sundance\u2019s Biggest Surprise Hits: A Fledgling Photo Agency Called WireImage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back when Jeff Vespa<\/a> first started snapping photographs at Sundance<\/a>, 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. \u201cI had to hand-build the web pages every night after shooting,\u201d he remembers. \u201cWe\u2019d send an assistant to get the film developed in Salt Lake City, bring it back, and at 3 in the morning, I\u2019d be scanning slides into the computer.\u201d<\/p>\n

That hand-built website, SundancePix.com, went live in 2000 and was the precursor for a new photo agency called WireImage<\/a>, which launched 25 years ago this month. For the next two decades, it made Vespa the film festival\u2019s favorite photographer. He and his crew \u2014 which at one point filled Park City with about 100 assistants, bookers and editors \u2014 roamed all over, capturing every young breakout, maverick filmmaker and crazy producer trudging through the snow in Utah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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. \u201cI had to hand-build the web pages every night after shooting,\u201d he remembers. \u201cWe\u2019d send an assistant to get the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2244016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/One-of-Sundances-Biggest-Surprise-Hits-A-Fledgling-Photo-Agency.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244018,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244016\/revisions\/2244018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}