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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
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Gesture
Gestures
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Photography
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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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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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There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
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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 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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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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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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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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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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Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens.
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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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