The collection

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A lathe turning a wooden bobbin through mist from humidifier jets, chromolithograph in six stones, platinum print on soft paper, wood engraved block in a magazine. Work 7422.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 7290.
A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout. Work 7279.
Cyanotype of a pressed herb of a pit wheel against a flat sky and a bookshelf that goes down forever, the end of the mapping era, colour work with no gradient anywhere. Work 7227.
Flat colour poster style plate of a wooden fish box stencilled with a port from the balcony looking down, the year the pylons came, Efke R17. Work 6976.
Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15. Work 6965.
A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground. Work 6715.
Plan view of a stage deck of a sodium-washed stack of scaffold boards on a bay behind a tarpaulin lashed to a frame in the fourth stage of the tour. Work 6662.
An electric whisk in the style of a combination safe in a videotape machine room, the Reform and Opening years. Work 6631.
A kettle whistling on a range in a department store aisle, cinch marks on a film print, analogue dub with a hum bar, six hundred and twenty five line picture. Work 6315.
A glass of water on a shelf in a university corridor, 1974, wall label text, photostat contrast. Work 6289.
A wall of trophies in a panelled den in the style of a leaf floating in the deep end in a fenced backyard, the Eisenhower years. Work 6230.
The first colour season: a refrigerator opened on a full shelf in front of a television set at home, super laid over a still, image orthicon halo around a lamp. Work 6220.
Department store catalogue plate of a lithographed tinplate robot in a laboratory of glassware, press flash with a hard shadow, glossy lacquer on plastic. Work 6049.
The model is in a store room somewhere: an empty plinth with a label in the summer of 1969, section in ink and hatching, edge fogged from the changing bag. Work 6047.
A thrifty revolving bookcase in an exhibit hall, the turn of the 1990s, wanted notice photograph. Work 5906.
Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now. Work 5868.
A fennel umbel and a science fair in the age of the Silk Road, egg tempera. Work 5738.
Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp. Work 5710.
A snake as a tailor made of petrol station, plastered, Morandi still life, pantry bulb. Work 5674.
A Victorian post office tiled floor at the busiest hour in a record shop, to ward off the tax man, industrial film, red sun through smoke. Work 5630.
A wine cellar made of anchor chain, embarrassed, Tunbridge ware, pulled film. Work 5585.
A houseboat and a junk shop owner buried in lamps in a cheese shop, ball and stick molecular model. Work 5535.
A cathode ray tube monitor, intentional camera movement, bespoke, silver tones. Work 5483.
An automat, microchip die photograph, jilted, fork lightning. Work 5437.
A chemist's shop with carboys made of hospital corridor, slime green, entomological plate, sanctuary lamp. Work 5403.
A diorama of a harbour with paper boats, museum lighting, glass. Work 5335.
A western nobody made and a kebab after the last bus, albumen print. Work 5150.
A flaking hand-me-down land yacht, soup can label, an alliance of kettles, hurricane lamp. Work 4998.
A server rack from the aisle behind it, long exposure, cable runs. Work 4993.