Sam Abell Quotes - Page 4

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• It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

  Sam Abell

  Teacher, Careers, Momentum

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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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, were those who had taught. Teaching enriches and enlivens one's work.

  Sam Abell

  Teaching, Careers, Taught

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh work. Also, it's very stimulating to be around non-professional photographers. They're the ones with the purest flame burning about their photography. I appreciate that.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Flames, Appreciate

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

  Sam Abell

  Careers, Would Be, Impossible

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time.

  Sam Abell

  Photographer, Easy, Difficult

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.

  Sam Abell

  College, Thinking, Kentucky

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future, most photographs would be taken on telephones. They weren't able to do anything with that. They were engineers, not management.

  Sam Abell

  Taken, Would Be, Able

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• [In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.

  Sam Abell

  Taken, Ideas, Would Be

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• The class that I teach is called "The Life of a Photograph." It takes up the question, of the billion photographs that were taken today, how many will have a life, and why? So the new reality has made the question more pertinent, not less pertinent.

  Sam Abell

  Taken, Reality, Class

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Yes, there are billions more photographers, and billions more photographs every day, but who's building up a point of view? Who's photographing with intention, and whose body of work will sustain itself and survive?

  Sam Abell

  Views, Building Up, Body

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• 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

  Book, Giving, Meaning Of Life

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

  Sam Abell

  Process, Wanted

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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