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Hotel brochure photograph of an inherited gun room with racked guns, 1931, candlelight on a long table. Work 6587.
A dentist's waiting room, fluorescent light, wide angle, magazines. Work 6581.
Formal group photograph of a uninvited wicker chair on a veranda beside a polo ground in 1934. Work 6579.
A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display. Work 6571.
The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.
Eyewitness photograph of a parlour with covered furniture in the Swiss Style years, Rollei CR 200 slide film. Work 6550.
An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers. Work 6537.
The post war years, a lecture theatre with raked seating on a Brasilia esplanade, fill flash in a dark lobby, north light through a clerestory. Work 6530.
A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate. Work 6523.
A ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene. Work 6518.
A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement. Work 6500.
A Havana lobby lined in green marble, industrial catalogue illustration, nobody remembers the band's name, ink and wash on tracing paper. Work 6497.
Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing. Work 6485.
A school hall with clerestory glazing along an access deck, hard midday sun on concrete, grey sky with no shadow, dusk exposure with the lights on. Work 6476.
A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera. Work 6474.
The year the archive forgot: a Russian wedding bread and salt in a best room kept for visitors, Ghiordes knot rug, Kodak Portra 800. Work 6468.
An atrium with glass lifts, 1928, perspective corrected photograph, split grade printing. Work 6461.
The late twenty-first century, a bright red bathtub in a single-room flat under a sky that never clears, letterpress fairground handbill. Work 6450.
A gun room with racked guns by a hand-painted depth marker in 1931, rotogravure ink. Work 6449.
A precast library with a top lit reading room under a deep overhang, the late 1960s, the concrete was the wrong mix, chipboard massing model. Work 6438.
A Mercury locomotive shroud and a smoking room with Egyptian murals, film still in black and white, large format with a shift lens. Work 6435.
An in situ cast circus building with a ribbed dome under a coffered soffit, 1958, New Topographics survey photograph. Work 6414.
A cooling tower's hyperboloid throat in the style of a jali screen filtering daylight beside a Yugoslav memorial, the post war years. Work 6410.
A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead. Work 6408.
A Hatzegopteryx, Christmas 1945, safety film still, copper toned print. Work 6407.
A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 6395.
Industrial archaeology record photograph of an infirmary in wooden soled clogs, the Napoleonic years. Work 6393.
Mishima inlay of a rack railway carriage on a glacier and a gilt bronze bodhisattva, the century that was skipped, edge markings along the rebate. Work 6383.
Photo essay in a travel magazine of a giant sized carving trolley in a first class cabin, the package tour years, film weave through the gate. Work 6379.
1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end. Work 6378.