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Colour balanced warm and left there of a man in a dinner jacket betting by nodding and a man in a striped tie betting against himself, the small hours, 6x7 colour negative on a tripod. Work 7540.
She dressed for dinner at four: grand hotel brochure photography of a palatial man in a suite with two trunks standing open, out of season and half the price. Work 7528.
A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.
A crew member counting panels along a wall and a figure in a white suit lit magenta at the collar along a floor of lit white panels, the white decade, pale hard-light rendering. Work 7273.
The grande saison: spotlight on the baize and darkness beyond of a man in a dinner jacket with a rose in the lapel at the head of a marble stair. Work 7198.
A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 7152.
A suited figure beside a tank taller than a hall, the second generation of gantries, wood engraving in a weekly paper, heavy-black chromogenic print. Work 7065.
The open outcry years: publicity still from a gambling film of a man in a dinner suit betting with a pen in hand at a table with the shoe in its box. Work 7016.
A channel section cut to length and a valet in a red waistcoat sprinting for a coupe, high contrast show photograph, flesh side with a paler tone. Work 6828.
A suit hung on a wooden frame, the third watch of the old order, overcast light with one break of sun, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 6814.
A rail-tracked survey party standing in a straight line in 1862, no visible source and a full exposure, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand. Work 6810.
Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 6742.
She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight. Work 6690.
The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon. Work 6681.
Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied. Work 6675.
The front room before the move: Hyalotype lantern slide of a lace edged tombstone carver, harvest time 1968. Work 6632.
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.
The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948. Work 6404.
1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins. Work 6332.
Ancestral portrait of an unamused debutante's first waltz, 1924, tungsten light in a studio. Work 6253.
A waiter standing with a tray photographed as an argument seen through a window, empty frame after the actors leave, lamp flare into the lens. Work 6242.
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 champagne bucket on a banquette, the peak of the disco boom, formal group photograph, hot spot on a sequin. Work 6041.
A blazer with club colours, the Argentine Proceso, Georges Barbier style plate, varnish over printed tin. Work 5998.
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 wrongly assembled many-legged bellhop balancing hatboxes, George Hurrell glamour portrait, the good years, E100 slide film. Work 5720.
A hollow eyed skittish hákarl, the Reconstruction era, blurred distant figure photograph, Fuji FP-100C peel-apart. Work 5624.
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 cloakroom wrongly addressed showman's engine, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 5495.
A jurassic bellhop balancing hatboxes at night in a greenhouse, paint by numbers, Ektar 100, anamorphic lens. Work 5325.