Teaching Has Never Been Far From My

I Will Just Say, Appropriation Is An Intellectual Idea Until It Happens To You. It's A Philosophy, And It's Got Its Own Intellectual Framework. Then There's What Happens When It's Your Photograph. Then It's Personal, And That's All I'll Say.

I Did A Story For The Geographic On Meriwether Lewis And William Clark, And Stephen Ambrose Was The Writer. He Said, "i've Got The Easiest Job In The World. I Just Have To Re-tell The Story Of The Greatest Fishing, Camping, Hunting, Canoeing Trip Of All Time. You, Sam, Have The Hardest Job, Which Is, Pretend Like Nothing Has Happened In The Last 200 Years.

What I'm Interested In Is Modern American History. I'm Taken With The Changes That Have Occurred In America In My Lifetime.

Even Though I Teach With 35mm, My Method Takes People By Surprise, Because It Isn't Fast, And It Isn't About Hardware Or Software, Or Even Great Results. It's About Great Process.

A Very Big Part Of The Life Of A Photograph Is The Afterlife.