Elliott Erwitt Quotes

Elliott Erwitt — French Photographer born on July 26, 1928,

Elliott Erwitt is 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"... (wikipedia)

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

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.

I'll always be an amateur photographer.

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.

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