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Tannoy announced escargot tongs in a grand salon under a single lamp, the New Economic Policy years, airline in flight magazine photograph. Work 9731.

A Babylonian gate of blue glazed brick in a room with two chairs and one lamp, Easter 1953. Work 9725.

Tripod plate at a tiny aperture of a bedside lamp with a pleated shade, grain in the shadow under a stair, albumen print with a warm cast. Work 9687.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

An unblended flat-inked dentist's lamp swung down, the giant holiday number, figure reduced to outline and tint, guide lines left printed on the sheet. Work 9678.

An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame. Work 9637.

A bell tower of stacked signage between two stalls sharing one lamp, offset plate with visible rosettes, tungsten film under neon signage, mercury vapour green in the shadows. Work 9618.

High contrast show photograph of a ceiling tile knocked out of its frame below a bare bulb in a ceiling socket, the last show in that cellar, photograph shot at a stretch overhead. Work 9612.

A bronze-tinged figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk beside a stand holding a spare collar, the year the lamps were replaced, colour gel portrait held perfectly still. Work 9594.

A relief globe of moulded plaster and a title block lettered by hand past a brass turnstile at a door, the spring the globes arrived, lit to read every sounding figure. Work 9593.

A van de graaff belt and comb on a plate divided into four panels in the age of the great exhibitions, sheet sun faded along one edge. Work 9570.

Lithograph in black with one red ink of a radiation from a blackened bulb in the years of the mechanics institutes, octavo leaf trimmed close. Work 9550.

A bowl of glass fruit in the style of a stage light under a lit vehicle portal, the years before the war. Work 9548.

A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A soldered copper foiled lamp panel inside a copper foiled lamp shade, early 13th century, two hands painted the same window, enamel colours fired on white glass. Work 9524.

An austere lectern bolted to a concrete floor in the years of the works, tritone with a brass highlight, rust tone in the midtones. Work 9520.

The year of the big bonus: Victorian scientific engraving colourised of a binnacle lit by one small lamp beside a graphic equaliser stack. Work 9505.

A records office with wall-high files in a lit vestibule for gowning in the era of the issued childhood, blind shadow across a steel table, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 9436.

Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.

A telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground. Work 9427.

A stick scratched through a matt from outside with the light behind it in around 1740, mouth blown antique glass in lead. Work 9425.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

Slum clearance survey photograph of an enamelled egg on a gold stand with a collar stud that will not go in, the turn of the 1930s. Work 9400.

A boombox with one speaker rattling across a folded paper insert, one colour print on thin coloured stock, boombox recording in a bedroom, levels set by guesswork into the red. Work 9358.

The prize was given out twice: a quill and inkwell in the Art Nouveau years, bird's eye view lithograph, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 9357.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9339.

A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze. Work 9329.

A tie-down bolted creature standing on a pin through sand inside a set lit from one side, the last week of a shoot in 1968, mould seam kept in the shot. Work 9314.

1914: optical shop record photograph of a chronograph drum with a pen on it in a dormitory corridor. Work 9311.