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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
Elliott Erwitt
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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
Journalist
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Photojournalist
Paris
France
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Elio Romano Ervitz
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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?
Elliott Erwitt
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.
Elliott Erwitt
If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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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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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
Elliott Erwitt
Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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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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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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Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.
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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 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.
Elliott Erwitt
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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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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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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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
Elliott Erwitt
It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.
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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
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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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