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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.

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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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 cannot accurately remember color.
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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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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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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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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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When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.
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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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First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.
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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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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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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.
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