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The years the towers stood empty: a canopy pressing against a stone wall among fallen blocks, haze separated tower planes, neutral density in a hot courtyard. Work 7032.
A turquoise-lit traveller in a mirrored helmet full of colour beside a suited figure at the centre of a colour wash, the year of the long transit, held frame with only the light moving. Work 7021.
A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore. Work 7014.
A broken column upright among saplings, the year the mill was built, fixer stained print, photocopy with correction fluid showing. Work 6894.
A tunnel mouth of painted plaster with a pin through its base, the week before the club show, lithograph in three stone greys, tungsten balanced colour film. Work 6833.
A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan. Work 6795.
A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film. Work 6732.
The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers. Work 6709.
A floating hospital in the style of a snake shedding its skin past a bank of white lockers, the coldest hour of the night. Work 6642.
A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore. Work 6640.
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 window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source. Work 6594.
A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display. Work 6571.
1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment. Work 6564.
A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate. Work 6523.
A Havana lobby lined in green marble, industrial catalogue illustration, nobody remembers the band's name, ink and wash on tracing paper. Work 6497.
Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing. Work 6485.
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.
The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light. Work 6422.
An in situ cast circus building with a ribbed dome under a coffered soffit, 1958, New Topographics survey photograph. Work 6414.
A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows. Work 6397.
1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end. Work 6378.
A pier arcade at midday outside an amusement arcade in 1977, British Railways poster, shot against the light. Work 6344.
An anodised white colonnade on a red plain inside a glazed atrium, 1928, photograph of an architectural model. Work 6304.
1850, a shooter marble at 2001 Odyssey in Bay Ridge, open flash, Bergger BRF 400. Work 6300.
A blue pool vacuum hose on a night express, 1927, holiday album photograph, rotogravure printing. Work 6269.
A brise soleil across a south wall in a double height foyer, nobody has used the ramp for years. Work 6268.
A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout. Work 6262.
A bush hammered colonnade of tapering arches in a flat agricultural landscape, the year the estate opened, perspective rendering in ink and wash. Work 6244.