The collection

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A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner. Work 5846.
A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame. Work 5838.
A blackmailed coroner table under a lamp on a fire escape in the rain, 1949, street photograph. Work 5801.
Faded Eastmancolor print frame of a ticking wall clock in a hallway, Ferraniacolor warm cast, Ilford HPS pushed. Work 5787.
A silver yo-yo in a lighthouse lantern room, Game and Watch, Graflex press camera, handheld shake. Work 5754.
A prawn pink ducking stool on Earth Day, pull down map, perspective control lens, mottled canvas backdrop. Work 5746.
A racing travertine terrace that weighs a ton, polaroid transfer, sodium streetlight. Work 5743.
A joss paper house under warranty during Advent, wooden, prison commissary list, light across a floor. Work 5732.
A virus particle made of spy hole, standard lamp, emulsion peeling. Work 5711.
Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp. Work 5710.
A puncture repair kit made of Foucault pendulum, soapstone, Ezra Stoller photograph, spring light. Work 5708.
A lamp-lit telephone receiver off the hook caught in a headlight, 1944, fogged-up window photograph. Work 5700.
A cable stay fanning from a pylon beside a mosaic gable, 1976, coloured pencil rendering on tracing, blue hour with the lights coming on. Work 5684.
A mahogany commandeered herald with a long trumpet, monster truck rally poster, as a child would explain it, sleeper cabin lamp. Work 5668.
A dentist's waiting room made of worm as an apple tenant, cuban, silver gelatin print, light through a flag. Work 5666.
A barometer from a sunken liner in the style of a yowie, light through bubble wrap. Work 5663.
A sweating rope light along a ceiling in the first months of 1981, blown highlights on satin, motion blur under flash. Work 5644.
An olive drab weed-choked lamppost, Clarice Beckett tonal painting, we used to have one, cheese grater shadows. Work 5627.
A short-staffed battery-operated town crier ringing a handbell, Gustave Moreau canvas, an ode to a pothole, charging light green. Work 5615.
A half-deflated curtain pulled behind a sliding door, the bicentennial summer, faded holiday snapshot, heavy over-exposure. Work 5612.
A broke diner counter at three in the morning in the mid 1950s, silhouette against a lit wall, figure lit only from behind. Work 5602.
A first date at a museum in the style of a home brewer, loft hatch light. Work 5581.
A wartime codebreaker in the style of a coin operated telescope, light through a lampshade. Work 5571.
A buffet table, Japanese box art, stormy, escalator light. Work 5563.
A Crookes radiometer being taken down in the 1990s, the one you lost at the fair, Murano glass, eclipse corona. Work 5551.
A Jenga tower with a sad face at a parish council meeting, do not use flash, Lucian Freud portrait, late morning haze. Work 5538.
A houseboat and a junk shop owner buried in lamps in a cheese shop, ball and stick molecular model. Work 5535.
Sunny intervals of shame: a Pullman carriage in a Malaysian kopitiam, Mars rover photograph. Work 5529.
A cinematic robot with wheels, Emil Nolde watercolour, bedside lamp. Work 5528.
A last leaf on a tree in the style of a lithographer inking a stone, rain curtain. Work 5514.