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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Photography
Photographer
Perception
Rules

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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.
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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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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.
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There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.
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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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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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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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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer.
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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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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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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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The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos, the atmosphere that pervades every square inch of our image and yet is often invisible to the photographer.
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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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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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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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