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The main thing is to study pictures and stop listening to the pontifictaions of photographers. Photographers aren't oracles of wisdom. If they're good photographers, then take a good look at their pictures - what else do you need?

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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've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.
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I am serious about not being serious.
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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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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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Quality … has to do with intention.
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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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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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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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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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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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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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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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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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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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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 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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