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The year the line was relaid, an ochre-canvassed gate of white bars across a path built to a fifteen inch gauge, haze lit interior exposure. Work 6801.
A deer fence of split stakes in the style of a cut stair with a brass handrail pin near an inscription filled with moss, the first clearing. Work 6777.
An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater. Work 6776.
An implacable settlement terraced into a canyon wall, the age of the deep shelters, infrared plate with a black sky. Work 6696.
Hard rim light on a parapet edge of a ram's skull nailed above a doorway over a dry ditch on a lifting bridge, the first ascent of the pass, copperplate engraving with fine hatching. Work 6639.
Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall. Work 6601.
A temple gate at the top of steps, diazo print, the competition was won and shelved, sun flare across the lens. Work 6599.
The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.
A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page. Work 6546.
Lithographed travel poster of a palm fringed propliner parked at a palm fringed field on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1972. Work 6520.
A ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene. Work 6518.
A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 6508.
A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement. Work 6500.
The mosaic was saved and the rest was not: Bechers style typology of a lichen spotted sgraffito panel on a stair tower, the reconstruction years. Work 6484.
A heavy hearted carbolic sod house, the Iranian Revolution years, staff training filmstrip frame, Efke KB25. Work 6403.
A marble hall with a staircase under a cedar on a lawn, Kodachrome resort photograph, background painted out. Work 6340.
An axonometric of a stair core in the style of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell in a service corridor, 1932. Work 6316.
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 steps with a rusting handrail beside a chain-link gate, the film sat in the camera a year. Work 6216.
A top lit sgraffito panel on a stair tower beside an escalator hall with a mirrored soffit, the year before demolition, travel sketch in a notebook. Work 6146.
A chalk outline on wet pavement in the stairwell of a rooming house, gobo pattern on bare plaster, printed on nitrate stock, shaft of light through a blind. Work 6093.
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.
A Mauresque grille over a stair window on a liner leaving port, 1926, pochoir print, varnished poster stock. Work 6030.
A stoical sanatorium staircase down to the sea, the wakes weeks, flying spot scanner transfer. Work 6018.
The reel changes here: Gevacolor frame of a flower decked staircase seen from below, the Concorde years. Work 5927.
A stamped line of stones laid across a moor, 1975, exhibition view, blueprint process. Work 5902.
A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 5887.
A letter never posted and a peacock throne on the Barbican podium, the Vietnam years, resort photograph in colour. Work 5841.
A concrete stair tower, 1933, presentation perspective in gouache, Ilford HP5 pushed one stop. Work 5793.