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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
Photographer
Photography
Action
Always
Gesture
Gestures

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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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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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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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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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I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.
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If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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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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The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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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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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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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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Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!
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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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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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I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
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