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1899: a night-lit forest of masts in a fishing dock, harbour board survey photograph, mixed lamp light and dawn. Work 8524.
A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun. Work 8425.
The sun reached the desk for four minutes: estate sale photo album page of two bar electric karst towers rising from rice fields, the silent film era. Work 8375.
A sunset with layered orange bands, 1929, airbrushed sky over a flat ground, printer's colour bar in the margin. Work 8365.
The coldest hour of the night: very long lens sun frame of a figures seen through heat shimmer in first light over water. Work 8317.
A sunset-backlit man in a pale pink shirt at a game of dominoes across a yard churned into mud, the decade the standpipe arrived, architectural section through a shaft. Work 8182.
The year the strip was cut, a grass-beaten mirrored visor with the sun in it cutting into a sodium disc, symmetrical sunrise framing. Work 8159.
He led every lap and said nothing: silhouette study of a wound headcloth of a brick-red field of scarecrows all turned the same way, the railway mania years. Work 8135.
A figure standing with both arms raised beside a pole with a lamp on it in the quiet end of a long night, archival positive with a hot sky. Work 8125.
The season the wells were counted: rendered in one shaft of hard light of a sample pan of hard red wheat among the stubble at sundown. Work 8103.
A boulder field shivering in the distance and a model town hall with a matchstick portico, in camera sunset made with a gel, flare cutting across the whole frame. Work 8074.
The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc. Work 8047.
An auditorium of two thousand seats as the low sun clears the setback, the founding decade of the upper city, layered depth through smog, clean optics with minimal flare. Work 7795.
An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition. Work 7714.
A tower at each end of a bridge among schoolchildren in coats, somebody clapped at the sunrise. Work 7657.
Low vantage along a level beach of a fungus shelf glowing on wet stone and a ripple ring crossing a still bay, 1856, technical pen with stippled rock. Work 7582.
A baggage lashed under a woven net opposite the sun on a bare crest, somebody had painted the trees. Work 7455.
The first ten minutes of daylight, a raffle ticket book printed off the crop against a sky in flat bands, rescreened from an already printed page, ghost image below the sun. Work 7454.
A shadow running over pale sand across a huge orange sky in the morning after the rain stopped, horizontal blue flare streak. Work 7404.
A green band low in a dawn sky beyond a black palm line in the middle of the 1970s, no fill light at all. Work 7230.
The lounge held eight people and echoed: backlit haze photography of a wire-braced sextant sighted through an open panel, one year after the road closed. Work 7012.
A sun-backed rotor blades blurred into a grey disc through a curtain of spray, the short season of clear mornings, the shadow arrived first, 70mm silhouette frame. Work 6944.
Poster with a very low horizon of a pyramid flattened against a gold sky through a tunnel mouth in rock, a tear repaired from behind, paper showing through the blue. Work 6805.
A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage. Work 6771.
One week of identical sunrises: a flower-hung pair flying abreast at low level, rotor blur composition, pulled stock for a soft horizon. Work 6765.
The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string. Work 6705.
Joel Meyerowitz style photograph of a still empty motel pool at dusk, the long summer of 1977, glare off the water. Work 6501.
Toy box lid illustration of a tailfin on a building parapet in the late 1940s, sodium light over a parking lot. Work 6355.
A woman smoking alone on an island in the Baltic in the spring of 1968, anamorphic flare across the frame. Work 6312.
A river steamer with a sun deck and a price panel at the back of a brochure, lithographed travel poster, oversaturated brochure colour. Work 6169.