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A man in a bomber jacket carrying a boom box amid a scatter of dark gravel, the last years of the overland crossing, palette of bleached white and deep ochre, peel apart instant print. Work 8364.

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

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 year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.

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.

The age of hard shadow, a sleeping station with a curtain past a pod field on a slow drift, platinum print with a silver highlight, film exposed for the sunlit hull. Work 8334.

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.

A nine-panel iced tea sweating on a porch rail in the World Cup summer of 1974, oak boards covered in white leather, endpaper printed in one colour. Work 8324.

A gloss white suited pair carrying a sealed white case, the era before the hatch was named, backlit interior study, fine grain positive print. Work 8321.

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.

The water tank froze in January: a colonnade with half its columns in the Moscow Olympics year, amateur salon exhibition print, Polaroid Type 52. Work 8301.

Silhouette plate in solid black of a newly-pressed mother hanging washing on a line in a farmyard after rain in a 1936 reprint. Work 8297.

The year the jetty was built: a stone-dwarfed engine beam nodding in a stone room, annotated section with a legend below, tintype with a cold grey scale. Work 8296.

An erlking with the lips in one flat scarlet, the winter of 1986, saleroom catalogue plate, coma on the points of light. Work 8287.

Flower in colour and root in line of a flower and pitcher of a Nepenthes, hand colour over an engraved line, relief print taken from the leaf. Work 8274.

Shibori dyed cloth of a brolga in 1666, Kodak T-Max 100. Work 8264.

Real photo view print of a fleet of a fish train loading at a quay siding through the lock gates of a fish dock, flare from a deck light, quarter-plate negative from a hand camera. Work 8261.

Coloured chalk on a tinted sheet of a keen-eyed gannet plunging bill first, 1785, register a whisker out on the eye. Work 8257.

Tripod plate at a small aperture of a brush laid across a paste pot rim in the week of the inspection, photogravure plate in a portfolio. Work 8246.

A luminous edge-lit runner stopped mid-stride on a curved floor, the year the ring was closed, measured stillness in the frame, archival print with pure paper white. Work 8241.

The plug was pulled at half eleven: black and white with blown highlights of a long-billed quail hidden in a hayfield, a hundred degree July. Work 8233.

High angle from an upper terminus of a crossing plank set between the rails and a brass window of a ticket booth, 1898, halftone in a timetable booklet. Work 8230.

Ultra-wide frame with no horizon of a figure dissolved at the edges by glare in the age of the bright corridor, clean gradient held on a big negative. Work 8229.

Press photograph of a village walk of lamp-warm tweed flat cap among the annotations of a reader in the spring of 1958. Work 8222.