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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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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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The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.
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Do what the client wants, not what you want.
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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 don't study photography. You do it.
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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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