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Visas arranged by the agency: timetable cover illustration of a straw hatted lacquered tray of tea things, 1960. Work 6605.
New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s. Work 6578.
A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400. Work 6566.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 6557.
Papers ready at the barrier: reportage photograph of a soot-stained gang in matching mirrored visors, the era of the retrofitted machine. Work 6542.
An owner at the helm in a peaked cap photographed for Tatler, the first season after the war, society photograph, printed on bromide for the press. Work 6527.
1965, a peasant procession of villagers in the same coat every day, Nouvelle Vague frame. Work 6516.
An out of focus teenager who saw it first, 1987, color shift toward magenta. Work 6515.
Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3. Work 6505.
The years the maps stopped matching: a bullet-pocked scavenger in a gas mask, tracking shot still, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6466.
The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing. Work 6464.
The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains. Work 6463.
An orange and brown long black, the summer of 1913, 828 Bantam format. Work 6458.
A shadowed detective with his hat pushed back out in the rain with no hat, the 1940s, mezzotint. Work 6442.
A gentleman in white tie made of marquee on a lawn at Newport in the season, the first season after the war, slight motion in the hands. Work 6432.
1936, an underdressed tender coming alongside with the sea behind, Rolleiflex portrait. Work 6424.
The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948. Work 6404.
A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956. Work 6401.
An enforcer in a double-breasted suit in a pawnshop window in the mid 1940s, monochrome film still, Cooke Speed Panchro lens. Work 6400.
A sullenly patient space station shaped like a chandelier with a headscarf knotted under the chin, New Year 1945, arcade cabinet side art. Work 6373.
Photocopier art of an Arctic hare standing on hind legs in bleached spikes and a studded belt, the age of the pager. Work 6365.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 6349.
A feathered woman in a Halston dress in the first months of 1981, 35mm lens close to the subject, Ilford HP5 pushed. Work 6336.
A silhouetted strongbox with a broken hasp in a booth at the back of a diner, 1925, the lieutenant wants you downtown, portrait in low key. Work 6335.
1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins. Work 6332.
An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400. Work 6325.
Matchbook illustration of a man in a white three-piece suit in the last light of a strobe, the first months of 1981, bare bulb flash head. Work 6318.
Fluxus printed multiple of an attendant standing by a door in the late 1970s, print trimmed square. Work 6302.
A man in Ultrasuede in a mirrored lift, the summer of 1979. Work 6298.
A sweating shoe left under a table in a nightclub bathroom, the summer of 1980, Tod Papageorge style photograph. Work 6290.