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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
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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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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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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Quality … has to do with intention.
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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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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 am serious about not being serious.
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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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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
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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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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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