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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.
Elliott Erwitt
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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Paris
France
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Elio Romano Ervitz
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Elliot Erwitt
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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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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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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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You don't study photography. You 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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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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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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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
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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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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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I am serious about not being serious.
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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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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 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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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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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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