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
photographer ill
Ill always be an amateur photographer.
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 lenses photographer
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
photographer vocation trade
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
thinking photographer
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
photographer curious persons
If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.
serious photographer
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
photographer
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
inspirational photography photographer
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.
awful display displaying lighting money museums stuff worst
The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.
changed evolved except pictures
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.
almost blow carry horns portraits sort taking trick
It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.
contact good likely none ratio several shots taking
The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.
although best books collection pictures presenting specific work
Making books is a very specific kind of activity. It's not really a collection of your best pictures - although it is - but it's also a way of presenting your work so that it's not repetitive, so that it flows, and so that it makes sense in a book.