The collection

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An aircraft settling onto a lit pad along a beam above the cloud line in some March a very long way ahead, tilt shift over a tower crown, window grid exposed for interior only. Work 10089.
An elevator operator with a slack jaw, the turn of the 1970s, comprehensive layout in marker, magenta out of register by a hair. Work 10077.
Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.
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 lift bank with eight illuminated doors among a shift crossing the concourse in the decade the sky was sold in lots, large format transparency on a light box. Work 9156.
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 picket line breaking into a brawl inside a freight elevator in the week of the verdict, deep black built from three inks. Work 8805.
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.
Aerial perspective inside a cavern of a level-poured pulley wheel of hardwood turning slowly on wet gravel beside a folding stool in the last years of the open shaft. Work 8531.
An organ pipe cactus tethered to a mast in the mist, the Roaring Twenties, seed identification chart, 6x9 rollfilm transparency. Work 8126.
Raised viewpoint over a lit circle of a vulcanising press with a screw handle in 1879, gelatin dry plate at slow speed. Work 7544.
The century of the lifting beam: backlit smoke stage photography of a hot air ballooning against a rack of hi-fi gear. Work 7460.
A radio mast of open lattice inside a turbine hall, the negative was scratched already. Work 6968.
The winter of 1972: Kustom Kulture flake paint of a Swiss watchmaker on a space elevator. Work 6409.
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 terrazzo floored stylised eagle over a post office door, 1940, duotone in black and gold. Work 6065.
An official behind a glass screen and a factory gate at shift change, linocut print, deep focus stopped down. Work 5915.
A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 5887.
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.
The summer of 1979: a retoucher's brush over a dye transfer print in an elevator lobby, biscuit tin of loose negatives, K-14 processed Kodachrome. Work 5671.
A diving bell, Beksinski canvas, nesting, locked off shot. Work 5549.
A paternoster lift between floors, available light, motion blur. Work 5375.
A mangrove root made of hot air balloon tethered to a cow, horned, expired polaroid, Rolleiflex. Work 5117.
Kandinsky composition of a pitch pipe before the launch at Cape Canaveral, Jacob Riis flash photograph, half-demolished, instant film border. Work 4734.
A torch with a flat battery in the style of a cyclone, overcast noon. Work 4166.
A paternoster lift between floors, available light, motion blur. Work 3922.
The long hour after dinner: a mainframe room with the doors open when the machines are resting, bubble chamber photograph. Work 3809.
Czech puppet animation of a tarmac spreader during first contact, bitmap font edges. Work 3049.