The Jay Maisel interview continues inside his 72-room home, studio, gallery, workshop, and archive in New York’s Germania Bank Building.
In Part Two, Michael Reichmann follows Jay through a building filled with photographs, transparencies, books, tools, found objects, experiments, and decades of visual history.
Jay shares:
• Photographs and stories from his archive
• His custom panoramic camera
• Kodachrome and a surviving Ektachrome photograph of Billie Holiday
• Why photographers need to study painting and other visual arts
• Lessons from Ernst Haas, Robert Frank, Arnold Newman, and Herbert Matter
• The role of confidence in an artist’s life
• Why you must become your own hardest critic
• What teachers can give their students
• The joy of seeing something for the first time
Jay believed an artist needed enough confidence to show people the world in a new way. He also believed praise became dangerous when it replaced honest self-criticism.
This is more than a tour of a building. It is a visit inside the mind of a photographer who spent his life studying light, color, gesture, and human behavior.
Watch Part One:
Jay Maisel: How He Saw the World | Part 1
