Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Soviet and Russian poet (1933-2017)
Sam Abell
American photographer
Sam Abellis an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in National Geographic.
Sam Abell’s love of photography began due to the influence of his father who was a geography teacher who ran a photography club.
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About the Sam Abell
Sam Abellis an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in National Geographic.
Sam Abell’s love of photography began due to the influence of his father who was a geography teacher who ran a photography club. In his book The Photographic Life, Abell mentions a photograph he made while on an outing with his father, a photograph that subsequently won a small prize in a photo contest. He credits that prize as being a major influence on the direction his life would take. Abell was the photographer and co-editor for his high school yearbook and newspaper.
Abell graduated from the University of Kentucky in Lexington where he majored in English, minored in Journalism, and was the editor of the Kentuckian Yearbook. He is also a teacher, an artist and an author.
Abell received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Toledo in 2009.
Sam Abell’s book The Life of a Photograph is one of three volumes begun in 2000 with Seeing Gardens. It was followed in 2002 with The Photographic Life.
5 Quotes by 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.
Sam AbellAmerican photographer
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
Sam AbellAmerican photographer
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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam AbellAmerican photographer
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam AbellAmerican photographer
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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
Sam AbellAmerican photographer