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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
Journalist
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Paris
France
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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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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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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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Quality … has to do with intention.
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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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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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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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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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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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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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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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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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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
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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'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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