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Town guide photograph of an amusement arcade doorway in the early 1970s, whip pan across the beach. Work 6406.

The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948. Work 6404.

A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows. Work 6397.

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.

Oblique aerial photograph of a mosaic panel on a gable wall in a Chandigarh forecourt, 1928, Ektachrome 64 transparency. Work 6380.

A scholarship winning climbing frame in bare earth in a cutaway of a building, the first year of electric light, dalle de verre window. Work 6376.

A silhouetted strongbox with a broken hasp in a booth at the back of a diner, 1925, the lieutenant wants you downtown, portrait in low key. Work 6335.

Matchbook illustration of a man in a white three-piece suit in the last light of a strobe, the first months of 1981, bare bulb flash head. Work 6318.

An axonometric of a stair core in the style of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell in a service corridor, 1932. Work 6316.

The year the works opened: a newspaper kiosk at the Paradise Garage, light struck negative, Eastman Double-X 5222. Work 6307.

The year the reef was still clear, a passenger stepping onto the tarmac in sunglasses in a Samarkand tiled courtyard, super eight home movie film, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows. Work 6306.

Fluxus printed multiple of an attendant standing by a door in the late 1970s, print trimmed square. Work 6302.

A man in Ultrasuede in a mirrored lift, the summer of 1979. Work 6298.

A sweating shoe left under a table in a nightclub bathroom, the summer of 1980, Tod Papageorge style photograph. Work 6290.

Lacquer panel painting of a lacquered cabinet with shagreen panels in a terrazzo entrance hall, 1933, gouache on grey board. Work 6285.

A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout. Work 6262.

A man made of doors on a road that runs straight to the sky, everybody else is looking left. Work 6256.

A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam. Work 6249.

The late 1940s: a hard-boiled rooming house parlour, available-light photograph, light from below the face. Work 6247.

A bathing costume drying on a wall, 1969, Italian beach club poster, orange fade of an old print. Work 6246.

Liner company brochure illustration of a cocktail bar with a backlit onyx panel and a barber pole beside a chrome doorframe, 1925, perspective corrected verticals. Work 6245.

The early 1960s: a shutters closed at midday in a Milanese apartment, available light night frame, scratch running down the print. Work 6231.

A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead. Work 6188.

A marquee with three tiers of bulbs, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, the cinema is a furniture shop now, low key studio lighting. Work 6172.

An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie. Work 6163.

Miniature room photograph of a viewing mound in a corridor of humming transformers, Fujicolor Reala 100, streetlight through a rainy window. Work 6160.

A regiment of nutcrackers and a German cuckoo clock at the Minnesota State Fair, the Polaroid years, chromoxylograph. Work 6159.

A bowl of noodles under a heat lamp in a courtyard hung with laundry, ENR silver retention, single hard key with no fill, push processed one stop. Work 6150.

A neon-lit ballroom entrance on the pier, the summer of 1980, television variety show still, bare bulb flash head. Work 6139.

A blackmailed wet cobbles under a lamp, the years right after the war, single source lighting. Work 6135.