Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The class that I teach is called "The Life of a Photograph." It takes up the question, of the billion photographs that… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
