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I Was Asked By A Student What My Most Significant Accomplishment Was At National Geographic, After Thirty Years, And I Said That My Career Came To An Appropriate Close, And I Still Loved Photography. Not Everybody Who Spends Their Career At Anything Ends Up Fascinated And Involved With It.

Photographs That Transcend But Do Not Deny Their Literal Situation Appeal To Me.

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.

That Statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'you, Sam, Have The Hardest Job, Which Is, Pretend Like Nothing Has Happened In The Last 200 Years.'] Woke Me Up To The Fact That The Landscape That Lewis And Clark Came Across Was Greater Than The Serengeti. And It's Gone.

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