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Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive. Sally Mann

Sad Death Alive More Feel Also Make Makes Us

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up. Sally Mann

Joy See Seeing Some About Cases Taking Opening Pictures Like Looked Were Up Just Anything Them Fun Shows

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves. Sally Mann

Eyes Women Men Way Photographs Constantly About Ardent Well How Am Feminist Women Are Roll Maybe Just Sensitive Themselves Used

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them. Sally Mann

Love Think Scare Operation Up Them Media

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter. Sally Mann

Personality Think About Fundamental Thing

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable. Sally Mann

Good Me Insecurity Photographer Pretty Writer Good Writer Feel Vulnerable Makes Always Person Regular Regular Person Pervasive Whose

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living. Sally Mann

Photography Writing Living Had Over Make Chose

I remember when the family album came out, people would just knock on our door because they thought they knew us, and that, of course, is one of the great hazards. Sally Mann

Great Family People Remember Thought Our Out Would Hazards Remember When Knew Knock Course Because Came Just Door Us Album

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality. Sam Abell

Photographer Mentality Known

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

Alone Photography Stay Seems Very Arts Moment Serve Humans Desire

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. Sam Abell

Life Woman Photography First Become Plaza Distinct Would Sunlight Photographs Hurrying Horizon Shadows Abstract Sharp Most Stunning Practiced Up Wall Northern Ohio Where Grew Landscape Figure Image

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. Sam Abell

Work Needs World Mistakes Mad Out Photographer Make Get Keen

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression. Sam Abell

Life Light Finished Single Distant Visual Photographs Horizon Rarely Often Interest Held Strand Moment Fully Expression Image Presents

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. Sam Abell

Work Best Ability Best Work Unconscious Almost Understand Occurs Often

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view. Sam Abell

Me Light Weather Seen Montana Earth About More Small Lifestyle Open Combination Most Within Prairie Cultures Sublime Mountain Different Central Grander Landscape Landscapes View Appeals Compelling

In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human. Sam Abell

Mistake Made Every Rug Complete Photograph Would Spirit Something Deliberate Take Almost Godlike Human Hole Ever

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation. 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. Sam Abell

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation. Sam Abell

Life Best Expectation Lesson Given Teaches

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path. Sante D'Orazio

You Path Own Gone Guide Through Lead Instead Obstacles Because Around Rock Always Go Going Taught Places Creating Your

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