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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
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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Photography
Air
Unless
Believe
Yorker

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I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
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The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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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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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you get lucky, you recognize what you are doing, but all too often we don't find the connection between our work and our own motivations.
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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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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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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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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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One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to other colors that the fun begins.
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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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