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Elliott Erwitt (born Elio Romano Erwitt, 26 July 1928) is an American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings— a master of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment".

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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?

Listening, Needs, Oracles, Photography, Pictures, Wisdom

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

Photographer, Photography, Study

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

Academic, Nonsense, Photographer, Photography, See, Zone

Do what the client wants, not what you want.

Client, Clients, Want, What You Want

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

Curious, Good, Persons, Photographer

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

Business, Photographer, Photography, Subtle, Visual, Want

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Photography, Technique, Inability, Notice

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

Hobbies, Photographer, Photography, Take, Time, Treat

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.

Movement, Part, Pictures, Stars, Time, Way

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.

Academic, Care, Develop, Photographer, Photography, Rest

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

Care, Emotional, Photography, Simple, Terribly

I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.

Believe, Come, Keep, Philosophy, Photography, React

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Alone, Included, Photographer, Photographers, Work

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.

Important, Imposing, Let, People, Photography

Quality … has to do with intention.

Quality, Intention

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.

Events, Exist, Photographed, Photography, Wedding

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

Amateur, Ones, Photographer, Photography, Thinking

The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.

Best Things, Camera, Cameras, Happen, Happens, Things

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

Function, Noticing, Noticing Things, Photography

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

Black And White, Color, Interpretive, White

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