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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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Quality … has to do with intention.
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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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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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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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You don't study photography. You do it.
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I am serious about not being serious.
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I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.
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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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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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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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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.
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