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Robert Smithson tours the monuments of Passaic
Union Avenue at River Drive, Passaic, New Jersey
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Smithson grew up between Rutherford and Clifton, and on September 30, 1967 he took a bus out from the Port Authority with a newspaper, a science fiction novel and an Instamatic camera. He got off at this corner and photographed a bridge, a set of drainage pipes and a sandbox as though they were ruins, then published the walk in Artforum that December. Reading a suburb under construction as a landscape already falling apart, the essay became one of the founding texts of land art and pushed him toward the earthworks he is known for.
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