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aerial black-and-white photo of spiral earthwork sticking out from shore into lake
Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty, 1970. (Photograph: Robert Smithson, 1970 / © Holt / Smithson Foundation. Artwork: © Holt / Smithson Foundation; Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York.)

Robert Smithson’s Monument to Contingency

Spiral Jetty never stops changing.

2 black-and-white photos: girl in floral dress and head scarf midair jumping on trampoline; boys in western shirts and jeans lean against the hood of a truck
Christopher Churchill

Big-Sky Country

Photographs that capture traces of American industry, class divides, and westward expansion

black-and-white photo of Boston's Washington Street Elevated in the 1980s with Dover station exit, diner with "Luncheon" neon sign, wood-paneled station wagon
Jack Lueders-Booth

A Bygone Boston

In the 1980s, the photographer Jack Lueders-Booth captured life along the city’s Orange Line.