Robert Smithson: 'The Monuments of Passaic, 1967.' (art photographer; Passaic River in New Jersey)

Artforum International | June 22, 1998| | Copyright

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One Saturday in September 1967, Robert Smithson, equipped with a Kodak Instamatic and a copy of Brian Aldiss' science-fiction novel Earthworks, took a No. 30 bus out of Port Authority, bound for Passaic, New Jersey. Passaic is, to put it mildly, an unprepossessing burg, a transit corridor between Smithson's two childhood homes, Rutherford and Clifton. Famously, Smithson had been assisted into the world by Rutherford's kindly pediatrician-poet, Dr. William ...

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