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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.
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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
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I am serious about not being serious.
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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.
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Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.
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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.
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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.
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Quality … has to do with intention.
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When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
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I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
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I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
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