Bar None (1967) by Nancy Holt is a photographic composite composed of two closely related images. The work depicts Robert Smithson lying on the concrete ground of what could be a rooftop or parking lot in New Jersey, shown from two slightly shifting viewpoints: the image on the left views him through railings, while the image on the right looks down from just above the bars of the barrier. The subtle shifts in distance and framing point to the subjective processes of perception.  Bar None investigates perception itself—how vision is structured, repeated, and destabilized—reflecting Holt’s early interest in systems of seeing and spatial awareness. 

The precise location of the photograph has not been conclusively identified and remains the subject of ongoing research by the Foundation. The images were taken in 1967, the same year Smithson produced Monuments of Passaic, and were developed into this composite by the artist in the early 2010s.  Holt chose to output the work as an inkjet print and specified that it should always be dated to the year in which the images were taken.