Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.
Robert SmithsonI am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Robert SmithsonHistory is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
Robert Smithson