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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Vacuum
Gesture
Gestures
Photographer
Photography
Color
Experience
Contexts
Light
Vacuums

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