In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his mouth was "The central theme of American Literature is an attempt to reconcile what we've done to the New World." wrote that down in my notebook, and thought, "What is he talking about?" But that's what I think about now. The New World and what we've done to it.
Sam AbellWhat I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.
Sam AbellWe know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.
Sam AbellIt 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