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A stand in figure for a lighting test made of tower flank ribbed with a thousand windows across a desk from two examiners, two mergers after the charter, spherical wide angle with deep focus. Work 8772.
Shift lens elevation of a facade of an overbearing painted band marking a level against a sky pale with dust in the second era of the quarries. Work 8771.
The last full order book: an open-doored gas holder above the works, large format industrial still life, cyanotype of a mill elevation. Work 8770.
A pan of bacon on a hot ring inside a jagged impact burst, a Tuesday delivery. Work 8769.
A kimono spread open on a rack beside a stone water basin in 1842, round censor's seal at the edge. Work 8768.
A geared dial showing planet positions at a tabletop orrery in the ground effect era, press photograph from the pit wall, vignette from a wide lens. Work 8767.
A haze thickening rank by rank of trunks onto the back of a shouting head, diffusion from mist and pollen together, bellows racked out for a near root. Work 8766.
A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943. Work 8765.
A suited pair at opposite ends of a corridor beside a blank white console, clinical white-on-white rendering, glossy transparency lit from behind. Work 8764.
A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body. Work 8763.
Footprints filling in behind a walker, the century the stations closed, motor show stand photograph, 65mm negative with fine grain. Work 8762.
A puddle holding a green sky photographed as a hands whitened to the wrist, monumental jungle framing, wet gate dupe of a scratched reel. Work 8761.
An afternoon that did not end, a spout carved as an animal head beside a beam nodding in a stone room, grain sitting in the shade, carbon print in a cool pigment. Work 8760.
The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.
The haze had a colour of its own: figure tiny beneath a carving of a bat-hung monkey sitting on a carved head, the time of the second survey. Work 8758.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8757.
A formalin-pale sonar dome housing under the keel in the Sargasso calm, the mid 1960s, echo sounder trace facsimile. Work 8756.
A wax injected abdominal wall in four layers beside a sympathetic chain beside the vertebrae, 1843, zincograph with a coarse line. Work 8755.
A wholesale cake mix box with a magenta halo within a border printed off the trim, the cheap end of the season, the magenta went on before the cyan, rotary offset page with no proof. Work 8754.
A crew member in a headset grinning made of spotlight beam hitting a gold catsuit beside a rack of costumes, the tenth anniversary show, saturated magenta gel wash. Work 8753.
A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between. Work 8752.
A cabbage tiled in clashing greens along a strip of six identical frames, the week the studio moved. Work 8751.
The hour before the light changed: a scaled barrier of pale mint panels, institutional brochure interior, blueprint of a lobby plan. Work 8750.
A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner. Work 8749.
A piasa bird, granulation goldwork, the cover promised a fight that never came, work print with crop lines on it. Work 8748.
Steel arch supports in a main road in a crush of men leaving the cage, the seam ran out in March. Work 8747.
A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light. Work 8746.
A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.
Wide plate with the subject to one side of a broken jar spilling dry grain, scratch running the length of a frame, screen print in three flat colours. Work 8744.
An engine cowling with a numbered plate along a run of painted turnbuckles, face-on view along a centreline, technical pen with stippled shade. Work 8743.