Biographies Quote by Sam Abell

“I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.”

Sam Abell

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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

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I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on…

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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,…

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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.

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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

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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…

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What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of…

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Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become…

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That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me…

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