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Gesture is not always action.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Gesture
Gestures
Photographer
Photography
Action
Always

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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.
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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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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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Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background.
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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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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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You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
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There are rules about perception, but not about photography.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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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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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Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.
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