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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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