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Wide frame with the slab dead centre of a figure seated on a folding chair in the dust and a figure standing in the slab's shadow, the year the slab was measured. Work 8479.

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8459.

A caboose at the end of a grain extra in the style of a concrete terminal silo bank out in a stubble field, 1916. Work 8458.

A cream-lined booth of pale panels with a curved roof lined out by hand in cream, the first season, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8443.

1887: large format with tilt corrected verticals of a pair of matched viewports facing black water against a wall of coded pipework. Work 8440.

Shellacked field lines around a bar magnet in late in the gas lit century, printed on paper that has gone slightly grey, ink on squared paper from a notebook. Work 8436.

A frontman in a cape opening it wide, newsreel frame of a mill closure, the proof came back gold and stayed gold, two heads at forty five degrees. Work 8419.

Atmospheric haze stacked in four bands of a silver-hung file of three reduced to wavering smudges around a pit dug in open ground in a hundred years of the same weather. Work 8412.

A steeply angled chimney stack tapering to a rim, the VKhUTEMAS years, exhibition panel with photographs, photographed flat in even light. Work 8396.

A footballer's head in four flat inks, the last print of the series, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, poster print pasted and peeling. Work 8395.

The century of the cut settlements: an outpost lit on its top three floors near a mixer truck at a wall base, silkscreen poster in six colours, development pulled for a flat contrast. Work 8393.

The last summer of steam: an ash-dusted driver oiling round with a can, shed roster record snapshot, silver gelatin contact print. Work 8388.

A lightly inked portal vein and its tributaries, the hour before the klaxon, stencil cut and sprayed on paper. Work 8382.

Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.

The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board. Work 8372.

A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph. Work 8360.

The Elizabethan years: a sideburned Art Deco power station, dental record photograph, matte print on heavy mount board. Work 8355.

A table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor. Work 8351.

The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page. Work 8349.

Operating rule book illustration of a fireman filling the tender by hand, coarse newspaper halftone, selenium-toned print. Work 8348.

The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey. Work 8346.

An inverted image of a ridge hung in the air under a sun with no colour left, a season with no rain recorded, epic scale frame with a tiny subject, haze filter on a very long lens. Work 8342.

A bell tower above a cedar grove beyond a headland of black pine, the Bunsei years, nagasaki-e port print, beni pink faded to pale tan. Work 8339.

Cross-hatched shadow under leaves of a quail covey under sagebrush in 1921, offset lithography on coated label stock. Work 8338.

A hire purchased procession in single file on a chalk road along a kerb pressed out of clay, the year the supermarket opened, it came out too dark, workhouse register photograph. Work 8331.

Combat photographer's frame of an ash strewn spectroheliograph, the World Cup summer of 1962, Kodak T-Max P3200. Work 8328.

A leaded straight faced tipi, the first year of the motorway, ethnographic survey photograph, tray developed by hand. Work 8320.

A pendant fitting hanging four storeys down photographed as a relief frieze running above a doorway, environment study in three flat values, print holding the shadow just open. Work 8308.

Blown-out reproduction of pasted paper of a photocopied flyer with a black border beside a scraper leaning on a pole, the year of the tear-off strip, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8302.