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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
Photographer
Brooklyn
New York
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Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
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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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Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.
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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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The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.
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Failing is not a problem. Not trying is a problem.
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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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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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If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting.
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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 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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I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
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We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
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Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.
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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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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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When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.
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You cannot accurately remember color.
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Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.
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