Smiling at Life with Elliott Erwitt

"It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception.
You can find pictures anywhere.
It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.
You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy."

- Elliott Erwitt

Is Elliott suggesting that we pay mindful attention to the world around us?

Positive Psychology given credence by Academia:

Positive psychology is the scientific study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Commentators on the subject Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, note that:

"The field of positive psychology at the subjective level is about valued subjective experiences: well-being, contentment, and satisfaction (in the past); hope and optimism (for the future); and flow and happiness (in the present).

At the individual level, it is about positive individual traits: the capacity for love and vocation, courage, interpersonal skill, aesthetic sensibility, perseverance, forgiveness, originality, future mindedness, spirituality, high talent, and wisdom.

At the group level, it is about the civic virtues and the institutions that move individuals toward better citizenship: responsibility, nurturance, altruism, civility, moderation,tolerance, and work ethic."