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By William L. Fox

Photos AND A STORY

PART 1: Out West
1 Targeting
2 Earthworks
3 The Pit . . .
4 . . . and the Stack
5 The Horizontal City
6 The Angels of Mulholland Drive
7 Surveillance

FLYING WEST TO EAST

PART 2: again East
8 Time Flies By
9 The 11th of September Trail
10 The Vertical City
11 floor Truth

FLYING NORTH TO SOUTH

PART three: Down Under
12 Mount Kosciuszko: 2,228 Meters (7,310 Feet)
13 Pennyroyal
14 Lake Eyre: forty nine ft less than Sea Level
15 Lake Eyre: 4,500 ft Above Sea Level
16 Alice Springs
17 Over Canberra . . . and l. a.

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Qx6 46 O U T 1/13/09 12:58 PM Page 46 W E S T of an industrial ruin, exactly the sort of anti-romantic appeal that the abandoned factories of New Jersey held for the young Smithson, and that led him to pick Rozel Point on the lake as a site for his entropic spiral. We detour to take a better look, but don’t get too close. This plant is the only producer of magnesium in the country, a metal used in everything from aluminum soda cans to aircraft, and since the terrorists flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, managers of large industrial plants are wary of aircraft approaching too close.

This plant is the only producer of magnesium in the country, a metal used in everything from aluminum soda cans to aircraft, and since the terrorists flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, managers of large industrial plants are wary of aircraft approaching too close.

It’s one of the finest pictures I’ve seen from any age that demonstrates how land and landscape meet. Mike has long had a copy of Focus on Africa in his possession. It’s a classic of exploration literature, a milestone of aerial photography, and of course it influenced the construction of the project for which he first became widely known, Full Moon. In 1994, after noticing how lunar the Nevada desert appeared to him and comparing it with the images he’d seen that had been made by the Apollo astronauts from 1967 to 1972, he approached NASA for a more thorough look.

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