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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
Elliott Erwitt
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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
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Paris
France
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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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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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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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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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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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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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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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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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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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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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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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I am serious about not being serious.
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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
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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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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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