Elliott Erwitt Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Serious, Photographer

  "Snaps by Elliott Erwitt - review" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2013.

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• I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photographer, Vocation, Trade

  Elliott Erwitt (1998). “Dog dogs”

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• Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, School, Simple

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• If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Ifs

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt, Alskog, inc (1974). “The private experience: Elliott Erwitt”

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• I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Differences

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• Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Sky

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• Quality … has to do with intention.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Quality, Intention

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• You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Noticing You, Matter

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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.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, Men

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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

  Photography, Quality, Ease

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• Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photographer

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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.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Thinking, Photographer

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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.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Magic, Crafts

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

  Elliott Erwitt

  Visuals

  "Best in show" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2003.

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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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  Photography, Care, Photographer

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• I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

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  Flower, People, Landscape

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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?

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Listening, Needs

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• I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.

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  Photography, Mean, Thinking

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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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  Photography, Fall, Light

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• My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

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  Photography, Ideas, Photographer

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• Ill always be an amateur photographer.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Photographer, Ill

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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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  Photography, Appreciate, People

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• There's no great mystique to photography. A lot of photographers like to put their hands up to their forehead and tell you how they've suffered and so forth. Well, I just rent a car and drive to the place and take the pictures.

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  Photography, Hands, Car

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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, People, Important

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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.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Cameras, Use, Leica

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