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• First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.

  Sam Abell

  Thinking, Pairs, Firsts

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Years, Careers

  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

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 think that it's workshops, honestly, that have kept me keen about photography, and about my photography. My career as a workshop photographer came while I was at the Geographic in the late 70's, and has continued consistently since then.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Thinking, Careers

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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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 up to the fact that the landscape that Lewis and Clark came across was greater than the Serengeti. And it's gone.

  Sam Abell

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Years

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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