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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.

Jay Maisel

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Quality
Inches
Space
Atmosphere
Often
Photographer
Pervades
Every
Invisible
Akin
Image
Photos
Photography
Inch
Air
Square
Awareness
Squares

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