Overall, I like the idea of this book. Though his long career, Sam Abell has kept a journal with his camera, taking black and white photographs to capture a sort of "dear diary" moment on a daily basis. This book shows those black and white photographic journal shots, juxtaposed with the National Geographic shots he took at the same place. And I love Sam Abell's work. I have four of his other collections, and I have learned more from studying his photographs than from any other photographic reference or class.
That said, this is not his best work. While some of the pictures are new, it seems, on the whole, to be an expansion of his
The Life of a Photograph
, where he showed alternative angles and setting up shots of many of the same National Geographic works. While the photographic journal shots offer some new insights into the way he sees, with only a few exceptions they are not dramatically different than his "setting up the scene" shots in
The Life of a Photograph
.
Still, it's Sam Abell, and it's wonderful.
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