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Image Steven R. Harris
Spiral Jetty: Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don't.
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The Roden Crater by James Turrell (under construction since 1979 in the Arizona desert).
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Workmen stand near the draped 340-ton granite rock that would become the centerpiece of Michael Heizer's newest installation, Levitated Mass. Heizer conceived of the work in the 1960s -- around the time of his Double Negative -- but wouldn't find the right rock until decades later
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Stills from the 1968 film Mono Lake, shot by Smithson, Heizer and Holt on a trip West.
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Image Jonathan Thompson
Benches and dump trucks at the Bingham Canyon Mine near Salt Lake City, which fascinated Robert Smithson.
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ATK rocket garden on the route to Spiral Jetty.
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Bob Phillips, the foreman of the crew that actually built the Spiral Jetty, tells his story to a group of art historians and architects from Switzerland.
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Image Jonathan Thompson
Approaching Sun Tunnels, by Nancy Holt.
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Image Jonathan Thompson
A highway underpass on a back route to Michael Heizer's Double Negative mirrors the sculpture.
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Double Negative as it appears today.
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Spider encountered while the author was searching for Double Negative.
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Industrial West salt flats gas station
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