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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Elliott Erwitt

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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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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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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