Editing Sam Abell

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[[File:Sam Abell in 2016.jpg|thumb|Sam Abell in San Miguel de Allende (2016)]]
'''Sam Abell''' (born 1945)<ref name="Camera">{{cite book |title=Camera |date=1976 |publisher=C.J. Bucher |page=14 |language=en}}</ref> is an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]''. 

==Life==
Abell was born in [[Sylvania, Ohio]].<ref name="Camera"/> His father, a [[geography]] teacher, ran a photography club. In his book ''The Photographic Life'', Abell mentions a photograph he made while on an outing with his father, a photograph that subsequently won a small prize in a photo contest. He credits that prize as being a major influence on the direction his life would take.

Abell graduated B.A. from the [[University of Kentucky]] in English in 1969.<ref name="Camera"/> He is also a teacher, artist and author. He began to work for ''National Geographic'' in 1976.<ref>{{cite book |author=Phaidon Press staff |title=The Photography Book |date=30 April 2000 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0-7148-3937-0 |page=8 |language=en}}</ref> He received an honorary [[Doctor of Letters]] degree from the [[University of Toledo]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.utoledo.edu/commencement/pdfs/Abell+bioandSpeech.pdf|title=A to Z List|website=www.utoledo.edu}}</ref>

''The Life of a Photograph'' is one of a three-volume series begun in 2000 with ''Seeing Gardens''. It was followed in 2002 with ''The Photographic Life''.

In 2024, Sam received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Photo Society,<ref>{{cite web |title=Sam Abell - The Los Angeles Center of Photography |url=https://lacphoto.org/people/sam-abell/ |website=lacphoto.org}}</ref> and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |title=HOF-Inductee-Sam-Abell |url=https://www.iphf.org/hof-sam-abell |website=International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum}}</ref>

==Publications==
===Publications by Sam Abell===
*''Amazonia'', Sam Abell, 2010 {{ISBN|087114087X}}
*''The Life of A Photograph'', Sam Abell, 2008 {{ISBN|1426203292}}
*''Seeing Gardens (National Geographic)'', Sam Abell, 2000 {{ISBN|0792279565}}

===Collaborative Publications===
*''Stay This Moment: Photographs of Sam Abell'', Sam Abell and [[Robert E. Gilka]], 1990 {{ISBN|0934738726}}

== References ==
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* Jeffrey, Ian ''et al.'' (1997). ''The Photography Book''. London:Phaidon Press Limited. {{ISBN|978-0-7148-4488-6}}

== External links ==
* [http://samabell.com/ Sam Abell's website]
* [http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0202/abell_index.htm Sam Abell's Photography]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161006174037/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/contributors/a/photographer-sam-abell/ National Geographic Biography]

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