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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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Brooklyn
New York
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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
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There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.
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Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a color image. This usually happens with a few colors, not a glut of them.
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Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.
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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.
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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
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You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
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Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.
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