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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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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
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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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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've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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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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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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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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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'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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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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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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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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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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Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.
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