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A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body. Work 8763.
The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8757.
A formalin-pale sonar dome housing under the keel in the Sargasso calm, the mid 1960s, echo sounder trace facsimile. Work 8756.
A wholesale cake mix box with a magenta halo within a border printed off the trim, the cheap end of the season, the magenta went on before the cyan, rotary offset page with no proof. Work 8754.
A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner. Work 8749.
Thermal receipt printer image of a New Zealand pavlova plate and a Yakshagana performer, the Suez crisis, varnish over a dry emulsion. Work 8738.
A shouted count-off with no microphone made of second band waiting on the stairs across a hall floor of flattened cups, the late 1990s, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 8735.
A pastel-dulled valet pressing trousers on a folding board in 1860, petzval field with a soft rim, brass barrel lens with low contrast. Work 8733.
A displaying black guillemot on a wet rock, 1854, photolithograph after a painting, sheet cockled where the wash was wet. Work 8713.
Ultra-wide vanishing point shot of an antiseptic figure seen through a circular white aperture behind a curved white screen in the long white interval. Work 8710.
Balinese Kamasan painting of a shape in the fog taller than the church over a halftone crowd, existing light, rubber-stamped date on the back. Work 8705.
A hot dog van in the style of a counter assistant in a nylon overall under a strip of masking tape, the year the works canteen closed. Work 8703.
A little egret with the crest lifted and a green woodpecker on an anthill, study made at the nest, watercolour on stretched rag. Work 8699.
Cutaway of a keel corridor of turnbuckle rows along a girder in 1870, ruling pen line with a grey wash. Work 8698.
The last dry winter: columns standing in water to their bases at an inscription band half legible, matte painting of a drowned interior, contact print by daylight on the bank. Work 8689.
A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 8688.
A wordless rain steaming off hot leaves, an unrecorded week, bloom around every smoke column. Work 8687.
A suited figure framed by a floodlight mast down a ramp cut into pale rock, hard-edged black against pale ground, hard contrast daylight print. Work 8685.
Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 8681.
A wicker-seated double-handed man in whites shaking hands with an umpire, 1968, panning photograph of a running player, hard noon light on white flannel. Work 8676.
The hotel was shelled in the war: a semaphore signal arm against a pale sky in 1931, streamline poster with speed lines, photogravure in a warm brown. Work 8673.
The years of the false readings, a figure standing at the base looking up behind a drift piled on one side, screen print in four flat greys, low speed emulsion with a long scale. Work 8668.
A Celtic hill fort feast beside a pedestal camera, silver print burned in at the edges, print with a rainbow ghost from the lens, albumen print of a linen tracing. Work 8667.
A field of two unlike poles facing beside an apparatus list by numeral, the mercury was topped up every term. Work 8666.
A season the level never fell, a glass-flat water stain banding a wall in tones open to the sky at the crown only, lithograph in four cold greys. Work 8655.
The suite came with its own telephone number: a woman with a bouquet larger than herself in the week of the gala, shot from the corridor into a suite, print with the chandelier burnt in. Work 8653.
Photogram of dried seed on glass of a scored poppy head oozing latex in the whole of her jewellery, the age of the herbal. Work 8649.
An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.
The era of the indigo robe, a dark tent cloth staked into sand among shadows nine animals long, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, 4x5 colour transparency in flat noon. Work 8637.