What I'm Interested In Is Modern American

Typically I See It With Photographers Who Go To A Place Like India Or Nepal, And Everything's So Colorful And Exotic And They Think, Therefore, A Picture's Been Taken.

...just Like Some People's Instinct To Photograph Is Triggered By Vacation... Assignments Might Be That To Me And That's Why I've Built My Life Around Assignments. That Was The Way To Live The Photographic Life.

[in The Late 80's] That's The First Time I Heard About That Astonishing Idea [that Most Photographs Would Be Taken On Telephones]. And Now I've Been Watching The Tsunami Of Images.

Teaching Has Never Been Far From My Life. It's The Most Natural Thing I Do. Apparently, As I Said, I Cannot Not Do It.

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.