Stephen Wilkes' Documentary "Jay Myself" Opens in New York July 31

"Jay Myself," a documentary about Jay Maisel by our own Stephen Wilkes, will premiere in New York on July 31. Film Forum will be showing the documentary through August 13 along with Q&A sessions featuring both Wilkes and Maisel. 

The Bank – a six-floor, 36,000 square foot, 100-year-old landmark building – sits on the corner of the Bowery and Spring Street, for decades draped in mystery, graffiti-covered, with boarded-up windows. Inside, renowned photographer/artist Jay Maisel inhabited a thriving artist paradise since 1966. A successful commercial photographer (covers for New York Magazine, Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions, and the iconic Miles Davis Kind of Blue album), he’s also a prolific art photographer and obsessive collector of extraordinary (and ordinary) objects that have inspired him. JAY MYSELF chronicles Maisel’s monumental move out of his 72-room home following its sale, the largest private real estate deal in NYC history. With humor and awe, Stephen Wilkes captures Maisel’s half-century of collecting – having had the room to save and exhibit every last thing he found beautiful, strange, or (potentially) useful.

Buy your tickets at Film Forum today. 

See more of Stephen Wilkes' work here.