Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwittis an 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"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth26 July 1928
CountryFrance
Elliott Erwitt quotes about
photography ifs
If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
photography quality ease
Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.
photography thinking cameras
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.
photographer curious persons
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
photography drawing giving
The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how you express your artistry. Look at paintings, movies, drawings, sculptures - look at anything visual and try to integrate that into your visual sense. After that, go out and take pictures and keep on taking pictures!
photographer vocation trade
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
photography lenses photographer
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
photography goal laughing
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.
photography appreciate people
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.
photography children school
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.
photography noticing-you matter
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
photography want photographer
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
photography magic crafts
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.
photographer ill
Ill always be an amateur photographer.