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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Elliott Erwitt

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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Paris
France
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Elio Romano Ervitz
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You don't study photography, you just do it.
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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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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 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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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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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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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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You don't study photography. You do it.
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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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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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Quality … has to do with intention.
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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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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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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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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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