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Colour rotogravure advertisement of a hand lettered ranch hand striking a match on a thumbnail, 1959, Fujichrome transparency. Work 6286.
Everybody lies about the money: a railway signal in the rain in 1944, cinematic frame with deep focus, shot on Eastman Super-XX. Work 6270.
Yacht club regatta photograph of a long white glove past the elbow in a red coat, 1926. Work 6266.
1979, a sugar frosted colour bars with a tone in the corner while the announcer keeps talking, safe title area framing. Work 6259.
Ancestral portrait of an unamused debutante's first waltz, 1924, tungsten light in a studio. Work 6253.
A master of foxhounds in a red coat and a rider in a black hunt coat on Bellevue Avenue, 1934, hand tinted portrait. Work 6250.
The late 1940s: a hard-boiled rooming house parlour, available-light photograph, light from below the face. Work 6247.
1865, a self conscious Amphicyon in a lurex jumpsuit under the lights, tin glazed earthenware dish. Work 6239.
A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare. Work 6237.
A night shift museum of curiosities, the Ptolemaic years, Adox NC 17 colour negative. Work 6225.
A steam-wrapped umbrella seller at a crossing beside a security drone with a searchlight, some November a long way from now, cinematic wide shot. Work 6217.
Club logo in chrome lettering of a Lagos nightclub stage at a smoked glass table, the summer of 1979, harsh direct flash. Work 6205.
The marquee was up for three days: full length portrait in oils of an unamused three ostrich feathers in the hair, 1924. Work 6194.
A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead. Work 6188.
Travel film frame in sixteen millimetre of a lei placed over a traveller's neck in the late 1960s, Nikon F with a fifty millimetre lens. Work 6185.
A poorly lit akhlut, the Spanish Civil War years, wardrobe test Polaroid, a minute by streetlight. Work 6182.
Feather mosaic of a cocktail garnished with a flower in a sheepskin coat with the fleece showing, the golden age of radio. Work 6177.
A picket line in winter, black and white, braziers, breath. Work 6175.
An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie. Work 6163.
A vodni mož at a Belgian kermesse, the first winter of the 1920s. Work 6161.
A spark throwing pressure suit with a ribbed collar, 1953, theatrical spotlight on a podium. Work 6145.
A blackmailed wet cobbles under a lamp, the years right after the war, single source lighting. Work 6135.
The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer. Work 6106.
An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge. Work 6101.
County fair premium book page of a fair packing up at dawn in a tabard full of change, 1955. Work 6048.
A gone blue guerrilla fighter, the Silk Road centuries, Kodalith Ortho 6556. Work 6046.
A Scottish ghillie, the turn of the 1950s, oil on canvas board for a cover, tempera on panel. Work 6042.
A piadina, photograph of a photograph, she watched from behind the nets, Ilford SFX 200. Work 6034.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours. Work 6025.
A blazer with club colours, the Argentine Proceso, Georges Barbier style plate, varnish over printed tin. Work 5998.