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In a short text titled ‘Art Through the Camera’s Eye’ (c.1971), Robert Smithson imagines the camera store as a setting for a horror film based on the myth of the Cyclops, as it appears in Homer’s The Odyssey. In Smithson’s version, the camera store would replace the cave where the Cyclops Polyphemus traps Odysseus and his men, and Odysseus himself would play the role of the camera clerk: “Each click would expose the clerk and his store to partial annihilation,” he writes. Here, the camera lens is the cyclopic eye, watchful and devouring, which “alludes to many abysses.” To be seen through this single eye meant death, suggests Smithson, who himself was overwhelmed by the plethora of camera technologies available at the time, and suffered fatigue at the “sight of rows of equipment.”
The presence of the camera in everyday life is now ubiquitous – in a sense, we are all living in Smithson’s camera store. Taking up this connection between the singular eye and the camera’s lens, I Ciclopi…
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In a short text titled ‘Art Through the Camera’s Eye’ (c.1971), Robert Smithson imagines the camera store as a setting for a horror film based on the myth of the Cyclops, as it appears in Homer’s The Odyssey. In Smithson’s version, the camera store would replace the cave where the Cyclops Polyphemus traps Odysseus and his men, and Odysseus himself would play the role of the camera clerk: “Each click would expose the clerk and his store to partial annihilation,” he writes. Here, the camera lens is the cyclopic eye, watchful and devouring, which “alludes to many abysses.” To be seen through this single eye meant death, suggests Smithson, who himself was overwhelmed by the plethora of camera technologies available at the time, and suffered fatigue at the “sight of rows of equipment.”
The presence of the camera in everyday life is now ubiquitous – in a sense, we are all living in Smithson’s camera store. Taking up this connection between the singular eye and the camera’s lens, I Ciclopi…
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