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A movie poster for a western nobody made, painted illustration, dust and sun. Work 6856.

Gouache poster illustration of a sweat-slicked doorman refusing nobody at four in the morning, the spring of 1980, lens flare across chrome trim. Work 6855.

A museum diorama of daily life, painted backdrop, mannequins, dust. Work 6848.

The parrot belonged to the bar: a man in a lilac jacket holding a marina flag in the boom on the waterfront, slow shutter frame of neon at dusk, print with the blues pushed to ink. Work 6840.

A spectacled fireman's face in blown-out orange under a hard studio lamp, the week the pink ink arrived, the second colourway was worse on purpose, flat head over a printed dot screen. Work 6838.

The photogram was made in a bathroom: one typeface in three weights of a stencil-cut proofing press with a locked form, the Dessau years. Work 6834.

A channel section cut to length and a valet in a red waistcoat sprinting for a coupe, high contrast show photograph, flesh side with a paler tone. Work 6828.

A scaled small crowd of observers all facing the same way beside a two figures measuring the slab with a tape, the age of the unanswered question, immense flat black as the subject. Work 6827.

A distempered man in a linen blazer with sleeves pushed up in the opening years of the 1950s, sepia toned silver print, stereo pair on one mount. Work 6826.

A suit hung on a wooden frame, the third watch of the old order, overcast light with one break of sun, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 6814.

A rail-tracked survey party standing in a straight line in 1862, no visible source and a full exposure, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand. Work 6810.

A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows. Work 6807.

Poster with a very low horizon of a pyramid flattened against a gold sky through a tunnel mouth in rock, a tear repaired from behind, paper showing through the blue. Work 6805.

A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 6804.

A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan. Work 6795.

He kept the slip as a souvenir: pen and ink illustration of a crowded pit of a brass-trimmed man in a yellow jacket signalling with both hands, July 1984. Work 6788.

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.

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.

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.

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

An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph. Work 6720.

A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print. Work 6691.

She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight. Work 6690.

The sun took an hour to clear the trees: a landing skid shadow on wet sand in the first years of the 1970s, high angle over flooded ground, daylight stock at first light. Work 6688.

The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon. Work 6681.

Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied. Work 6675.

A symmetrical two clerks slapping palms over a terminal beside a crewel wool wound on a bone winder, 1738, line illustration with hatched shadow. Work 6661.

Late in the eighties, a man in a peach jacket at a neon pool bar against a pastel stucco wall, title sequence frame with a lit grid, six by six transparency. Work 6660.

The front room before the move: Hyalotype lantern slide of a lace edged tombstone carver, harvest time 1968. Work 6632.