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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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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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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.
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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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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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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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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.
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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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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'
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There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.
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Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.
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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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