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The atomic age, a robot with a neon grille for a mouth still in the original box, tungsten studio lighting, overexposed sky behind a fin. Work 5799.
Faded Eastmancolor print frame of a ticking wall clock in a hallway, Ferraniacolor warm cast, Ilford HPS pushed. Work 5787.
A stone brought back from a walk against a bare wall, 1981, Arte Povera installation photograph, daylight through a skylight. Work 5783.
The floor was still lit: sheet music cover illustration of a wired glass sprinter in the blocks, the Romantic period. Work 5782.
Blind embossed print of a relativistic jet, Agfapan 100, Rolleiflex on a tripod. Work 5777.
The year the estate opened: a half demolished bare room with one chair, New Topographics survey photograph, scale figure for reference. Work 5771.
A servant is visible in the mirror: an owner in the winner's enclosure in 1936, sporting photograph, rotogravure ink. Work 5767.
Sectional model photograph of a town hall with a projecting chamber beside a Yugoslav memorial, 1932, two point perspective from the corner. Work 5766.
A glass bricked Mumbai apartment block with a nautical rail beside a chromed radiator, the mid 1930s, Erte style fashion illustration. Work 5758.
A future that kept its old machines: a transformer humming on a pole in an office with frosted glass, tungsten-balanced photograph, HMI through a rain bar. Work 5757.
An air freshener misting over a sofa in the style of a pedestal camera on a studio floor in a garage with the hood up, the mid 1980s. Work 5752.
A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables. Work 5748.
A pipe organ's bellows and levers, tungsten light, set tables. Work 5747.
A prawn pink ducking stool on Earth Day, pull down map, perspective control lens, mottled canvas backdrop. Work 5746.
A fruit machine, tithe map, derailed, low tracking shot. Work 5745.
A joss paper house under warranty during Advent, wooden, prison commissary list, light across a floor. Work 5732.
A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light. Work 5726.
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 varnished tarmac spreader in an ice cave, Fernand Leger canvas, library reading light, humid haze. Work 5707.
A lamp-lit telephone receiver off the hook caught in a headlight, 1944, fogged-up window photograph. Work 5700.
A school corridor in the holidays, available light, polished floor. Work 5695.
A manila hearse in a Mexican cantina, demolition photograph, lavender shadows, xenon lamp. Work 5679.
A moroccan lunar crater made of sugar glass, rococo fete galante, wildfire smoke light. Work 5676.
A cinema foyer with a sunburst balustrade in the Mauresque manner, the summer of 1937, architectural elevation in ink and wash, low key studio lighting. Work 5672.
A mahogany commandeered herald with a long trumpet, monster truck rally poster, as a child would explain it, sleeper cabin lamp. Work 5668.
A three piece suite under plastic covers, Claude-Joseph Vernet storm, retro-futurist, ORWO UN54. Work 5667.
A dentist's waiting room made of worm as an apple tenant, cuban, silver gelatin print, light through a flag. Work 5666.
The ending was shot first: Techniscope frame of a peasant corridor with doors on both sides, 1965. Work 5662.
1955, a mosaic panel on a gable wall under a space frame roof, large format with a shift lens, dust and scratches from the archive. Work 5648.