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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
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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.
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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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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.
Biography
Sam Abell (born 1945) is an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in National Geographic. He first worked for National Geographic in 1967.
References
* Jeffrey, Ian et al (1997). The Photography Book. London:Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 0-7148-4488-8
