About Elliott Erwitt: 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".
I'll always be an amateur photographer.
A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.
All of my marriages lasted seven years.
Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
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.
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
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.
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather tha...
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.
My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.
