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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Something
Falls
Photographer
Photography
Positive
Force
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Light

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