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A reflecting pool before a portico made of measured elevation on a sheet in a top lit reading room, the late 1950s, available light in a stairwell. Work 6033.

Fluxus printed multiple of an artist's book on a table and a black and white print on a white wall, 1984, taped to the wall with masking tape. Work 6028.

A robot carrying a woman across a crater in a stable yard, the atomic age. Work 6026.

Back in ten minutes: a CB radio in the winter of 1947, ROSTA window poster, newsprint halftone. Work 6016.

A deep overhang shading a verandah and a site plan with contour lines across a Soviet microdistrict, the year before demolition, deadpan documentary photograph. Work 6013.

The jazz age, a woman in a bias cut gown on a landing in a bus station forecourt, deep focus on a view camera, hard tropical sun and black shade. Work 5997.

A safe standing open across a room from an open door, ask for me at the desk. Work 5996.

A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust. Work 5995.

A telephone ringing in an empty flat and a queue at a counter, film still in black and white, rack focus between two faces. Work 5991.

An inherited deck chair under a striped awning, 1938, tabletop model photograph, flash falloff into a dark room. Work 5990.

A provincial hotel room with the curtains open at a window in the afternoon, 1960, nothing happens for a long time, empty frame after the actors leave. Work 5975.

A warehouse with high windows at a lawn meet in 1945, charcoal portrait study, nitrate print with deep blacks. Work 5974.

The Korean War years: hard ground etching of a turf house beside a cooling tower. Work 5972.

The house was sold the following spring: school group photograph of a uninvited rug spread beside a car, 1931. Work 5967.

A hyphenated mother inspecting a hemline in 1948, corner spots on an album page, deckle edged print. Work 5966.

The post war years: a bush hammered precast concrete panel joint, perspective rendering in ink and wash, polarising filter darkening the sky. Work 5965.

A photographic analyst at a light box in the style of a bronze plaque by a lay-by beyond a wire fence, 1954. Work 5962.

A balloon and dart stall at the Foire du Trone, the early 1950s. Work 5961.

35mm black and white film still of a silhouetted blotter stained with ink, the 1940s, hard key with no fill. Work 5954.

Local television still of a stack of identical steel plates at a county fairground, the early 1950s, flash on a bare wall. Work 5943.

Foil blocked print of a martins at a mud nest under the eaves in the 1920s, Instamatic 126 cartridge. Work 5926.

Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light. Work 5919.

A world's fair pavilion with a pylon, the late 1940s, Populuxe brochure illustration, 35mm with a slight grain. Work 5908.

Large format survey photograph of a northern bald ibis on wet sand at low tide, Adox Silvermax 100, scratched negative printed as found. Work 5898.

The Afrobeat years, a hawk-moth feeding from a honeysuckle in a shopfront of black Vitrolite, Adox KB17, grid spot on the product. Work 5890.

A terrazzo floor with a compass rose beside a bronze lift door, theatre programme cover, gouache on grey board. Work 5885.

A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting. Work 5880.

Instamatic snapshot of a Scrambler in full swing and a rain on a painted ride front, 1957, Kodak Tri-X. Work 5879.

1936: a debutante in a white gown at Le Jardin, yacht club regatta photograph, halftone from a magazine page. Work 5878.

An unsigned sarong, New Year 1920, Ilford HP4. Work 5874.