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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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Elliott Erwitt
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Film Director
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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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Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
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It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.
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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
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It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.
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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 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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A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
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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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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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If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
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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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Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
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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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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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Quality … has to do with intention.
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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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