| VIDEO:
Sam Abell |
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My
year-long search to find bison skulls for the concluding photograph
in an essay on the life of Charles M. Russell ended in a dry Canadian
prairie. After finishing the skulls in the grass I considered my
work finished. But the results were flat and I persuaded my editor,
David Arnold, to send me back six months later.
Conditions the afternoon I arrived were harsh and marginal - bitter
cold and only moments of life left. As I framed the still life a
bull bison unexpectedly strode into the background, animating the
picture in a way that Russell himself would have appreciated. |
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