I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality. — Sam Abell Cameras Copy Share Image
Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic. — Sam Abell Increasingly Copy Share Image
I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture. — Sam Abell Common Copy Share Image
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing. — Sam Abell Diaries Copy Share Image
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. — Sam Abell Failure Copy Share Image
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that… — Sam Abell Difficult Copy Share Image
[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that. — Sam Abell Common Copy Share Image
The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. — Sam Abell Expectations Copy Share Image
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. — Sam Abell Appeals Copy Share Image
The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life. — Sam Abell Life 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 Life Copy Share Image
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell Affection Copy Share Image
I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small… — Sam Abell Bigs Copy Share Image
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we… — Sam Abell Doe Copy Share Image
There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the… — Sam Abell Building Copy Share Image
When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because… — Sam Abell Believe Copy Share Image
I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own… — Sam Abell Appropriation Copy Share Image
This might seem off the track, but an interesting thing to me that others could talk about better than I, but one… — Sam Abell Areas Copy Share Image
I think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop… — Sam Abell Career Copy Share Image
In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his… — Sam Abell American literature Copy Share Image
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.… — Sam Abell Borders 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 Bits 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 Afterlife Copy Share Image
For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most… — Sam Abell Art Copy Share Image
My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's… — Sam Abell Blades Copy Share Image
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity… — Sam Abell Asks Copy Share Image
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would… — Sam Abell Composition Copy Share Image
Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough. — Sam Abell Aboriginal Copy Share Image
Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive. — Sam Abell Energetic Copy Share Image
I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how… — Sam Abell Blog Copy Share Image
That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better." — Sam Abell Class 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 America Copy Share Image
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. — Sam Abell Equipment Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to… — Sam Abell Art 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 Education Copy Share Image
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