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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
Elliott Erwitt
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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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France
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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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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 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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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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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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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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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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You don't study photography. You do it.
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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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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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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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I am serious about not being serious.
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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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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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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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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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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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