{"id":30128,"date":"2026-08-21T20:18:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=30128"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:07:01","slug":"30128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/30128\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Page_56_copy_2-1200x802s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Page_56_copy_2-1200x802s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Page_56_copy_2-1200x802s.jpg 570w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Page_56_copy_2-1200x802s-330x221.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Page_56_copy_2-1200x802s-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 85vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JAY MAISEL R.I.P. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been announced that the remaining original giant of color photography, Jay Maisel, has passed away at 95. His sense of light, gesture, and color were a goal for many of us who started shooting seriously in the mid &#8217;70s. He joined fellow pioneers Ernst Haas and Pete Turner in what many consider to be the holy trinity of early color photographers. Jay was a very influential and an inspirational legend. RIP <\/p>\n<p>In addition to his corporate, editorial and fine art work, check out all the jazz covers Jay shot, including the seminal <em>Kind Of Blue<\/em> Mile Davis portrait. <\/p>\n<p>(Photo of Jay by his and my friend Arthur Meyerson) <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arthur.meyerson\/posts\/pfbid02TePGu6NVAK2YXT6ECwhycWBeHqUZgUYYfc5QHwvRLqJY7gBZJnXuJfb3XPSMmgR8l\">Arthur Meyerson&#8217;s rememberence of Jay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAY MAISEL R.I.P. It&#8217;s been announced that the remaining original giant of color photography, Jay Maisel, has passed away at 95. His sense of light, gesture, and color were a goal for many of us who started shooting seriously in the mid &#8217;70s. He joined fellow pioneers Ernst Haas and Pete Turner in what many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/30128\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30128"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30157,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30128\/revisions\/30157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}