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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.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: Enjoy Family Formal Get Get Together Least Loved Loved Ones More Nothing Old Once Once A Year Photograph Spending Spending Time Than Time Together Year Young

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Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: Before Cap Lens Off Photographing Sure Take

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

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: Appreciate Beauty Fun Lasts Life Little Make More Over Simplicity Time True True Beauty Wit

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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: About Art Everything Finding Found Interesting Little Me Observation Ordinary Photography Place See Something Them Things Way You

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Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: Just Many Photography Pictures Pretty React See Simple Stuff Take You

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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

Topics: Amateur Apart Being Better Maybe Photographer Pictures Professional Think I Think

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I'll always be an amateur photographer.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: Always Amateur Photographer

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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

Topics: About Am Being Contemporaries Like Many Photographer Say Serious I Am

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

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: Either Sense Something Visual You

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You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

~Elliott Erwitt

Topics: About Anywhere Around Care Comedy Concern Find Human Humanity Just Matter Noticing Organizing Pictures Simply Them Things You

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Photographer

Born: July 26th, 1928

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