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… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm.… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out with people.… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity. — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?"… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
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… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
![“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15e/jeff-vespa-25539_cameras_the-canon-ae1-a-fully-manual-camera-my-m_307429.jpg)
![“My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a high shutter speed and things like that. Long before I picked it up myself, I remember being on a slide at a country club going into the water and…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca0/jeff-vespa-25539_artistic_my-mom-had-bought-this-camera-to-take-cl_266973.jpg)
