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Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10279.

A half-poured silo rank throwing hard shadow in the fourth construction decade, split-toned print with cool shadows, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 10244.

A tower crane over a rising frame in the style of a bus station with a concrete canopy behind a brise soleil, the year the estate opened. Work 10208.

A hard-cropped belt-driven spiral of girders rising in steel, the 1925 exposition year, gouache study on grid paper, blueprint of white lines on blue. Work 10111.

A googie spaceport, sectional schematic of a boiler, the corners came unstuck, tempera cracked in a fine net. Work 9840.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

A self-propelled combine in tall wheat and an elevator fire at night, farm survey photograph, scan taken from an original negative. Work 9363.

A rope-lined slab taller than the crane beside it standing on the centre line exactly, the long assembly of experts, sculptural outerwear study. Work 9327.

A silt-caked camera crane sweeping over the risers shadowed by a leaning canopy, a dress run in 1976, wide screen matte painting look. Work 8966.

An air-conditioned stream of lights between vertical walls beside a cooling stack venting heat, the decade of the vertical franchise, human scale figure for reference. Work 8806.

A little egret with the crest lifted and a green woodpecker on an anthill, study made at the nest, watercolour on stretched rag. Work 8699.

A smoke-veiled speaker flown from a chain hoist above the deck on a top rail, two days before the doors opened, the frame outlasted the building, sleeve front with a steel frame photograph. Work 8643.

A rushed toy catalogue robot printed twice in the quarter the press was overdue a service, broken type where the plate scratched, green where the flesh should be. Work 8561.

A mud-legged glossy ibis in low sunlight, 1769, hard outline with a soft interior, aquatint on dampened rag. Work 8499.

Shibori dyed cloth of a brolga in 1666, Kodak T-Max 100. Work 8264.

The year the smog line rose again: model tower lit with fibre optics of a flyer climbing between two towers among aisles of indicator lights. Work 8158.

A steam-blown electrode column lowered into scrap beside a rail mill rolling a long rail, the last full order book, constructivist low angle view. Work 7848.

A rigger walking a beam above cloud within reach of a turning camera mast, nobody on that floor had a surname. Work 7715.

Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920. Work 7048.

A crane above a half built bridge, telephoto, overcast. Work 6415.

The atomic age: an antenna topped turntable with a car revolving on it, exhibition guide illustration, low angle with a wide lens. Work 6274.

A rocket with a checkerboard tail made of flying saucer on landing legs at a periscope, the late 1930s, Technicolor three strip. Work 6183.

A radio mast guyed with cable inside a rolling wall of dust, a hundred summers from now. Work 5900.

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.

A finned rocket on a launch gantry in the style of a bold neon letters on a pylon sign on a cereal box premium, 1935. Work 5789.

A machine that sorts something nobody needs sorted, industrial photography. Work 5785.

Publicity still with a prop robot of a reactor hall with a crane in the year of the fair, Agfacolor stock. Work 5761.

A diving bell, Beksinski canvas, nesting, locked off shot. Work 5549.

A counterfeit secretary bird stamping on a snake in 1837, academic salon painting, professional photograph, underpass lighting. Work 5476.

An ant as a crane operator and a tuatara at the winter solstice, Philip Guston canvas. Work 5232.