quote from Elliott Erwitt

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“It’s an illustration about the use of cameras these days,” Erwitt says. Inaugurals, graduations, birthday parties, backyard barbecues — everybody’s taking pictures. Too many? “All you need is a pencil and a piece of paper to write a novel, don’t you?” the Magnum photographer answers with a wry smile. But he points out that “not even with a very good pencil” will those novels necessarily become the next War and Peace. The same for photographs.

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