Robert Smithson Light Quotations

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.

Photographs are the results of a diminution of solar energy, and the camera is an entropic machine for recording gradual loss of light.