“Jay Myself,” is a reverential documentary portrait of photographer Jay Maisel by noted photographer Stephen Wilkes, Maisel’s one-time apprentice. The framing device for the story is Maisel’s having to vacate the New York City building at 190 Bowery where he”d lived and worked for the last 48 years.
What makes this “moving day” film all the more remarkable is that Maisel owned and occupied the entire six-story former bank building â all 72 rooms of the 1898 Germania Bank Building. Over the ye…
