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

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• Elliott Erwitt:

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

• Elliott Erwitt:

  The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one con

• Elliott Erwitt:

  In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were,

• Elliott Erwitt:

  It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one o

• Elliott Erwitt:

  I'll always be an amateur photographer.

• Elliott Erwitt:

  All of my marriages lasted seven years.

• Elliott Erwitt:

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

• Elliott Erwitt:

  Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

• Elliott Erwitt:

  My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

• Elliott Erwitt:

  Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.