Solace: photography’s answer to art’s exclusion
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With the ice of the Cold War still frozen solid, Sam Abell sat in his Moscow hotel and captured the essence of photography as art: its power. Abell faced Moscow’s Red Square for twelve hours to create the composition for his photograph Pears and Red Square (1) in his series “Tolstoy,” commemorating the Russia that Tolstoy immortalized.