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My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.
Sam Abell
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Sam Abell
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: February 19
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What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
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