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Elliott Erwitt, born on July 26, 1928 in Paris, France, is a renowned photographer. His photographs are known for their unique perspective and sense of humor, capturing many moments of social change and human emotion. Erwitt's work has won numerous awards and been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.

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Famous Elliott Erwitt Quotes

“Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.”

Photography Photographer Lenses Caps

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“If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.”

Ifs Subjects Eternal

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

Quality Produce Photography Ease Photoshop

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“A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.”

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“All of my marriages lasted seven years.”

Years Seven Seven Years

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“I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.”

Littles Lasts Fun Appreciate Simplicity Wit True Beauty

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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.”

Years Together Young Enjoy Photograph Spending Loved Ones Formal Get Together Spending Time Young And Old

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“I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.”

Museums Eastern Berlin

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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.”

Thinking Photography Photographer

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“My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.”

Ideas Seeing Photography Photographer

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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.”

People Ifs Would Be Opportunity Records Events Historic Covering Boudoir

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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.”

Way Children Age School Stuff My Own Photography High School Neighbor One Way My Way Earning Biscuits Taking Pictures Darkroom

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“I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.”

Use Depends Cameras Requirements Canon Leica

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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.”

Ifs Way Humans Made Shows Stars Felt Human Beings Movement Normal Photograph Movie Star Journalistic

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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.”

Care Seeing Photography Photographer Academic I Care Organize

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“I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Enough Home Morning Lucky Photography Luck Curiosity Photographer Get Up Curious Ingredients Stay At Home

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Particular Photography Cameras Photographer Occasions

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“Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.”

Way Trying Kind Eye Form Interest Simple Photography Photographer

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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.”

Wells Real Style Fine Photography Photographer Observation Elegant

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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.”

Want I Can Can Do Position Photography Photographer Versatility

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“You don't study photography, you just do it.”

Study Photography Photographer Just Do It

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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.”

Men Mind Children Made Quality Progress Photography Photographer Photograph Every Man Digital Explosions Men Women Chimpanzees Digital Photography

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About the Author

Born: July 26, 1928
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 72

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