What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

- Sam Abell

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

- Sam Abell

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

- Sam Abell

We 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 Abell

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of lig…

- Sam Abell

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, be…

- Sam Abell

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

- Sam Abell

That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

- Sam Abell

Richard Prince's most famous photograph was made by me.

- Sam Abell