Friday 24 June 2011

Robert Smithson - Ithaca Mirror Trail

Robert Smithson Ithaca Mirror Trail 1969

Smithson's Ithaca Mirror Trail is a series of photographs documenting a walk with a mirror outside the city of Ithaca, New York. Moving from the Andrew Dickson White Museum at Cornell University in Ithaca, the artist carried the mirror north to the Cayuga Salt Works. The map marks the 8 locations where he stopped and photographed the mirror in the landscape. 

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