1937 'Scene of Rooftops in the Old Part of Frankfurt, 1937', archival silver-gelatin 1980s print (49x55cm), signed & dated "Wolfgang Sievers 1937" at lower-right, double-matted framed & glazed, overall 66x77cm. Superb. An unusual aerial aspect, highlighting the architectural significance of medieval
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1939 'Manufacture of Matches, Bryant & May, Richmond, Vic 1939' vintage archival silver-gelatin print (41x50cm), signed & dated by Wolfgang Sievers at lower-right in black ink, three small pieces of acid-free mounting tape on the reverse, pencilled "Not good" on the reverse but Focal Point Gallery h
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1939 'Manufacture of Matches, Bryant & May, Richmond, Vic 1939' archival silver-gelatin print from the 1980s signed & dated "Wolfgang Sievers 1939" at lower-right, image size 50x60cm, recess mounted, framed & glazed, overall 66x83cm, very fine. A larger version of this iconic image than the previous
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1939 'Manufacture of Matches, Bryant & May, Richmond, Vic 1939', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (70x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. An impressively large version of this truly extraordinary image, demonstrating the scale of the
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1959 'Sulphuric Acid Plant, Electolytic Industries, Risdon, Tas, 1959', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (79x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. An unusual & remarkably perceptive composition of intricate industrial pipework, rather
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1962 'Employee Making Rope with Ropeway at Miller Rope, Brunswick, Victoria, 1962', vintage archival silver-gelatin print (44x60cm, slight silvering at the edges), signed in pencil on front, mounted on 3mm artboard, endorsed on the reverse "1962 archival print. Checked April 1995. Perfect archival p
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1962 'Employee making rope with Ropeway at Miller Rope, Brunswick, Vic, 1962', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (68x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. The largest print of another of Wolfgang Siever's iconic images, the presence of
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1967 'Gears For Mining Industry, Vickers Ruwalt, Burnley, Victoria, 1967', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (78x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. This iconic photograph, Sievers' most famous image, was staged for the camera to high
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1967 'Gears For Mining Industry, Vickers Ruwalt, Burnley, Victoria, 1967', Ilford Digital True-B&W archival C-Type print (101x130cm plus 5cm black border), signed & dated on the face at lower-right, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, superb condition. This is the largest print known to exist, wh
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1971 'Stockpiling bauxite, Comalco, Weipa, Cape York, North Queensland, 1971', Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (40x50cm), signed & dated at lower-right (difficult to see on dark foreground), mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine condition. Comalco, now part of Rio
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1971 'Stockpiling bauxite, Comalco, Weipa, Cape York, North Queensland, 1971', Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (78x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, fine condition. The largest recorded print of this marvellous almost sexualised im
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1976 'Old Cottages, Aldinga, South Australia', Kodak Endura Archival C-Type print (35x27cm), recess mounted, overall 51x41cm, unsigned, very fine. Aldinga is a small coastal community on the Fleurieu Peninsula, about 45km south of Adelaide. [This image - and all other versions offered at auction in
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1976 'Old Cottages, Aldinga, South Australia' Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (80x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. The more usual cropped image - see the previous lot - is perhaps more painterly & impactful. However, th
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1977 'Escalator Site, Parliament Station, 1977', Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (79x101cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. The largest known print of this stunning Hades-like image of two diminutive workmen dwarfed by the va
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1980 'Underground Equipment Repair Shop, North Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, 1980' Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (101x81cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. For more than 100 years, BHP Ltd's North Mine at Broken Hill was one of t
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1980 (c.) 'Dragline Scoop, Drayton Coal Mine, NSW' Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (101x80cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore, very fine. This overtly dramatic & confronting image of a huge machine gouging massive chunks out of the earth
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1983 'Shell's Drilling Rig, the Nymphea in Bass Strait 1983' Kodak Endura Archival C-Type print (38x30cm), signed & dated by Wolfgang Sievers on reverse, unmounted, very fine. By focusing on the interplay between the rough Bass Strait seas & the legs of the oil rig, Wolfgang Sievers turned a banal i
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1983 'Shell's Drilling Rig, the Nymphea in Bass Strait 1983' Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (101x81cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore. A slightly different presentation from the previous lot, being less-cropped at the base & possibly t
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1983 'Shell's Drilling Rig, the "Nymphea" in Bass Strait 1983' Kodak Endura Archival C-Type print (25x20cm), signed & dated by Wolfgang Sievers on reverse, unmounted, very fine. A mirror-image of the previous lot, and not previously seen thus. The bright orange colour of the legs of the rig have bee
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1983 'Curtains of Fire, Nymphea Drilling Rig, Bass Strait, 1983' Kodak Endura Archival C-Type print (25x17cm), 'Wolfgang Sievers' handstamp on the reverse, very fine. The subject is a nighttime test-firing of the oil rig. The vivid scarlet & crimson hues are highly reminiscent of paintings of the Br
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1983 'Curtains of Fire, Nymphea Drilling Rig, Bass Strait, 1983' Ilford Ilfotech High-Gloss Colour Archival C-Type print (101x68cm plus 5cm black border), unsigned, mounted on 20mm museum-grade foamcore. With less dramatic tones than the previous lot, it has a Turner-like painterly quality. The equa
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