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A globe lamp on a brass stem beyond a queue rail with no queue, 1993, after hours photograph of a lobby, fibre based print with a soft black. Work 9256.
The last year of hand setting, a poster pulled off the bed over a mould blade, half plate negative under a skylight, wood letter poster in fugitive inks. Work 9253.
1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9228.
A brass microscope on a mahogany plinth through an open bulkhead door in the year the lamps were fitted, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic. Work 9212.
Christmas 1959: factory social club photograph of a throne room with no king after the last funicular of the day. Work 9200.
A scale beam in an elevator office in the style of a man-lift rope in an elevator shaft in flat light on open prairie, the dust years. Work 9196.
Studied scale contrast of a figure crossing a threshold of pure white along a corridor with no shadow in it, glossy resin coated print, large negative with almost no grain. Work 9185.
Record illustration of a ruined interior of an open sky reflected in an inner court over a ratchet strap pulled tight, print made cool in the deep shadow, 16mm negative with a scratch. Work 9166.
The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 9157.
A platelayer driving a key into a chair and a figure standing perfectly upright in the dust, unreflecting surface study, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias. Work 9149.
1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9143.
Deep perspective down a bay of a wage office window at the gate in the summer of the big heat, reversal film with blocked highlights. Work 9142.
A pole-wrapped stapled-over plywood hoarding with a torn poster, the year of the tear-off strip, peeling paper rendered in hard shadow, black ink on canary poster paper. Work 9132.
A lamp with barn doors on the grid under the arch of the Starlight Stage, it went out on a Saturday and everyone saw. Work 9131.
A hushed concourse with one figure and no furniture over a dry fountain in a stone floor, the years of the new hall, the carpet was laid to the inch, reception desk portrait centred. Work 9130.
A near-empty single steel hatch numbered 04 in a blank wall, the closing schedule, sectional schematic of a wall, hand tinted print in pale colours. Work 9121.
A column-ranked balustrade of turned stone half in water at a hearth on a dry cornice, the years the hall was dry, lime crust described in fine texture. Work 9115.
It was centred by measuring from both walls: a crank turned by a gloved hand in the year the gallery was added, tinted lantern slide of an interior, two colour litho in mint and ochre. Work 9111.
Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9108.
Dystopian 1980s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9102.
1970s country club building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9092.
Interiors feature in full colour of a woman in a beaded gown adjusting one strap in the season at the hotel, cover proof with the title over gilt. Work 9086.
A lobby floor of pink and cream squares at a pass hung with copper pans in 1902, typed tariff pasted under a plate. Work 9081.
Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9077.
Textile pattern of gears and rules of a lattice-built window grid of a factory wall under a sawtooth roof in the 1925 exposition year. Work 9071.
A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.
Engineering sectional elevation of a silk reeling basin with a filament and a piece of grey cloth on a perch, 1910, 120 roll film square frame. Work 9050.
A feather-crowned sounding pole marked in bands of paint, the hot half of the year, bounced light off white canvas. Work 9032.
The summer the dome was repainted, a porter carrying one small brass sphere at a window of twelve identical panes, colour negative printed cool and dusty, grain visible in a deep shadow. Work 9015.
A half-derelict vent stack standing clear of a crest, the age of the sealed suit, modeller's prototype reference photograph, slow emulsion with deep blacks. Work 9009.