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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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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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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 like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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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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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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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 pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
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You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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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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I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.
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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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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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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 am serious about not being serious.
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In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
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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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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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