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Jay Maisel Light Gesture & Color
By Jay Maisel
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ISBN 978-0-13-403226-9 $54.99
With the publication of Jay Maisel Light Gesture & Color, the successful New York-based photographer’s workshop is now, at least in book form, available to a far wider audience. This is a work dedicated to the art of seeing. If you are looking for a book explaining what lens, shutter speed, and f-stop a master like Maisel used to create a particular image, look elsewhere. That information is not found in this soft-cover book. What this book does hold for the reader is a collection of Maisel’s images created over a 61-year career in photography, together with his insights into each image he has chosen to display for the reader.

Throughout most of the book Maisel’s text appears on the left-hand page and the image it discusses appears on the right-hand page. Occasionally a series of images and comments are related, but mostly they stand alon...

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Michael Williams
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Mike Williams, is a hobbyist photographer, sometimes art show participant, and works as the head librarian of the Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. A passionate technology explorer and early adopter his first digital camera was the Chinon ES-3000 in the mid 1990s. He and his wife Debbie enjoy traveling with their cameras as much as they can and hope to someday attend a Luminous Landscape workshop.
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