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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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Picture
Photography
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Home
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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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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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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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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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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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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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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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Gesture is not always action.
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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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