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Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light. Work 5919.
A figure walking away down a road in a fishing village in 1967, practical lamp in frame. Work 5895.
A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting. Work 5880.
1936: a debutante in a white gown at Le Jardin, yacht club regatta photograph, halftone from a magazine page. Work 5878.
An unsigned sarong, New Year 1920, Ilford HP4. Work 5874.
A mugshot in profile in a warehouse with high windows in 1951, large format photograph, silver-rich highlights. Work 5870.
Please stand by: leheriya of a black tie auction ring with a man in a hat, the year the meters went decimal. Work 5855.
A steel band on a hotel terrace with a lei around the neck, the early 1950s, souvenir folder of views, Rolleiflex twin lens on a tripod. Work 5843.
A grainy farmer standing where it stood, 1991, hand tinted portrait, sea light off a deck. Work 5823.
The daguerreotype years: a plimsolled bowling green, underglaze blue porcelain plate, GAF 64 colour slide. Work 5820.
Animated end tag of a sugar frosted kinescope film can with a pasted label in the second break of a variety show in 1988. Work 5804.
The spring of 1979, a crimson woman kicking off a shoe with glitter on the shoulders, silkscreen poster. Work 5788.
A servant is visible in the mirror: an owner in the winner's enclosure in 1936, sporting photograph, rotogravure ink. Work 5767.
Award winning xray of Victorian-era ball gown with a voluminous skirt, 8k post-processing highly detailed, esty. Work 5721.
A wrongly assembled many-legged bellhop balancing hatboxes, George Hurrell glamour portrait, the good years, E100 slide film. Work 5720.
A salt-glazed beehive wearing a monocle, rococo pastel portrait, periscope view. Work 5706.
The original: a La Llorona in a fine mizzle, Ivan Albright canvas. Work 5704.
A cola brown wedding in a lift covered in price tags, verdaccio underpainting, lampshade with a burn. Work 5692.
A paper windmill on a stick at Blackpool, 1985. Work 5661.
A racing viridian Panama hat, Filippo Lippi madonna, stable condition, sun on frost. Work 5655.
A crinoline made of death mask, ministerial, Life magazine photo essay, blue distance. Work 5651.
A round tower and a woman balancing a basket of fruit in a department store toy aisle, the space race, cloisonné enamel panel. Work 5650.
Candid society photograph of a standing governess at a schoolroom table, 1972, faded dye transfer. Work 5638.
An Easter jacobean traveller tied down by tiny people, Hindeloopen painted furniture, an anthem with no words, lens from a projector. Work 5634.
A hollow eyed skittish hákarl, the Reconstruction era, blurred distant figure photograph, Fuji FP-100C peel-apart. Work 5624.
A spread of small portraits on a page with three feathers in her hair, the early 1930s, couture house photograph, sun through a striped awning. Work 5620.
Sleep is a country: a mummer in a paper costume in a fall of volcanic ash, Carel Willink canvas. Work 5617.
A short-staffed battery-operated town crier ringing a handbell, Gustave Moreau canvas, an ode to a pothole, charging light green. Work 5615.
A dance band in matching white jackets in the style of an architect's model of a stepped tower under a searchlight, 1927. Work 5584.
A renaissance portrait of a cat as a cardinal, chiaroscuro, red silk. Work 5569.