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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
Photographer
Photography
Back
Going
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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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You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.
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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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Forget what it was. Look at what it is.
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Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.
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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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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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If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
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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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If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.
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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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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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The best camera is the one you have with you.
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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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You always end up with too many pictures to edit and too few that you feel 'got it'.
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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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I don't see light as something that falls, but as a positive force.
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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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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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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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