“...just like some people's instinct to photograph is triggered by vacation... assignments might be that to me and that's why I've built my life around assignments. That was the way to live the photographic life.” PeopleWayMightBuiltInstinctPhotographerPhotographVacationWay To LiveAssignments Author:Sam Abell
“There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.” WayHomeParentSoundInstanceVacuumsCleanersExpressive Author:Sam Abell
“There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a photograph, and in the end I talk about that, with the Richard Prince picture. But mainly, what I dedicated the book to being about was how photographs begin their life, and where they begin it. And they begin it with the photographer's imagination and instinct and experience.” WayBookEndsImaginationInstinctPhotographerPhotographDedicatedAfterlife Author:Sam Abell
“For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was a deep reverence for the world through which they passed. Photographers share something with these artists. We seek only to see and to describe with our own voices, and, though we are seldom heard as soloists, we cannot photograph the world in any other way.” WorldWayHelpingSpiritualArtistVoiceImaginationHeardShareShapesPhotographyPhotographerPhotographCompanionReverenceEquipment Author:Sam Abell
“"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."” IfsKnowsWayGivingKindLightSpaceTakenGraceSeeingSpecialEffectsObjectsMaterialsSceneShapesPhotographyOrdinaryUniversalPhotographerPhotographMeaningfulRelyIntensityEquipmentRaw Materials Author:Sam Abell
“One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way to photograph. Life isn't’ knocking you around, life isn't controlling you. You have picked your place, you’ve picked your scene, you’ve picked your light, you’ve done all the decision making and you are waiting for the moment to come to you.” WayBelieveDonePhilosophyMomentsLightSpiritualWaitingDecisionScenePhotographyPhotographerPhotographDecision MakingSatisfyingKnocking Author:Sam Abell
