Jay maisel photographer biography
Jay maisel.
Jay Maisel
American photographer (born 1931)
Jay Maisel (born January 18, 1931) is an American photographer.
Jay maisel photographer biography
His awards include the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame,[1] the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Media Photographers,[2] and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography.[3]
Biography
Maisel was born on January 18, 1931, in Brooklyn, New York City,[4] and attended Abraham Lincoln High School where he studied under Leon Friend.[5][6] He studied painting and graphic design at Manhattan's Cooper Union and at Yale University, and became a photographer in 1954.[4]
One of Maisel's most notable images is his photograph of Miles Davis that appears on the cover of Davis's album Kind of Blue (1959).
In 2009, Andy Baio commissioned an image based on the original Kind of Blue album cover for the cover of a chiptune tribute album titled Kind of Bloop. Attorneys