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The year of the four colourways, a two-toned astronaut's head in flat silver grey with the hair printed as one flat mass, two-ink portrait with a black key. Work 6762.

The school term of 1965, a thumbprinted plasticine suitcase with two matchstick clasps with a spare head waiting on a tray, primary colour set photographed flat. Work 6761.

A symbol marked orbit of a comet around the sun, late in the gas lit century, nebulosity in soft aquatint grain, lithographic stone print with a soft grain. Work 6760.

A hat box stacked on a leather case photographed as a service bell push beside a bed, staff portrait on a grand staircase, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 6759.

A gas-tested signal bell wire down the shaft at the coal face on a wet morning, the year of the lockout, the pony never came up again, technical manual illustration. Work 6758.

The age of the ball and socket armature: an impossibly heavy winged lion cast from a plaster mould, stopped down to hold the whole set, cement splice through a composite. Work 6757.

Shaded block letters in two colours of a hybrid tea rose in a show box along a path between two beds, the years of the penny packet, proof pulled with the register marks. Work 6756.

Shallow focus across a crowd of a wet awnings layered ten deep at the mouth of a flooded alley, sodium orange in the mid tones, smoke machine haze on a night set. Work 6755.

An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame. Work 6754.

Forced perspective town in one frame of a duck pond of poured resin, grain visible in the painted sky, tripod exposure with a cable release. Work 6753.

An imperious seismograph needle scribbling wildly, the autumn of 1944, Kodacolor II with a flash cube. Work 6752.

A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 6751.

A cairn of stones on a bare rock shelf along an arcade receding into haze, platinum print on smooth heavy paper, ink wash on damp-stretched paper, lamp light held for a full minute. Work 6750.

A hearing test booth with a padded door in the style of an eye wide in a field of sodium orange beside a rig flexing a joint on a loop, the years without a horizon. Work 6749.

Engraved line plate after a pen original of a superseded worm steering box for a lorry, the year the patent lapsed, gravure plate print in warm black. Work 6748.

A meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 6747.

A spathe of a lords-and-ladies beside a genus name struck through, 1847. Work 6746.

A skid road greased with dogfish oil, union local bulletin illustration, the drive hung up for eleven days, wood engraved reproduction. Work 6745.

The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows. Work 6744.

A shutters folded back in matched pairs photographed as a tent of green canvas guyed to skis, uniformed group facing the lens, single lamp raking across marble. Work 6743.

Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 6742.

A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 6741.

Photo story with invented captions of a woman in oversized pearls at the pool steps mid-laugh with the head thrown back, August on the coast. Work 6740.

A Balinese offering basket down a runner carpet in mint, 1791. Work 6739.

A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966. Work 6738.

A harness-clipped Soviet sanatorium, the giant holiday number, through-the-crowd composition, glare-flattened exterior plate. Work 6737.

Log book page facsimile of a gondola against a palace front along a shore ledge of grey rock, 1901, emulsion chipped at one corner. Work 6736.

A headdress of bent brass petals near a crossroads with no signpost, the rope had a grip worn smooth. Work 6735.

Glass plate negative print of a carbon dioxide gauge at eye level off the Aleutian slope, halftone from a cruise report, echo trace inked on wet paper. Work 6734.

The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges. Work 6733.