1971 · Telephone Answering Machine · Work 1124 of 1,871
The entrance hallway of an apartment in Los Angeles at dusk, one warm ceiling lamp, on a teak chest of drawers an answering machine thirty centimetres wide, a box with a dark wood-grain rim and a plain black top plate, two small tape reels turning behind windows at its upper corners, below a silver panel with fine speaker slots, a start key, a large round selector knob on a blank silver ring, a chrome knob and a tiny glowing red lamp, an earphone cable hanging over the edge, beside it a cream telephone with its dial turned away, a hand laying a ring of keys on the wood.