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Doris Day blows against

Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances

In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.

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Conserving Audrey

Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.

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Digitising Audrey

Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.

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  • Supra-clavicular bulging of the lungs
  • A woman, with bulging eyes, looking downwards. Photograph, 1864.
  • A woman, with bulging eyes, looking upwards. Photograph, 1864.
  • A psychiatrist with intense, bulging eyes. Colour process print by C. Josef, c. 1930.
  • A woman with bulging eyes, expressing desire through her face. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.
  • An ear filled with a bulging brick wall representing the problems of not listening to the facts about AIDS; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • An ear filled with a bulging brick wall representing the problems of not listening to the facts about AIDS; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Breast cancer cell, SEM
  • Abdominal aortic aneurysm
  • Breast cancer cell, SEM
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