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The era of balsa and enamel, a tea leaf soiled scalpel with a fresh blade with glue gone shiny along one joint, documentary look at a hobby table. Work 7981.
A sphere resting on cracked ground in the style of a wall crossing a ridge without turning in the lee of an upright slab, the second era of the watchers. Work 7976.
Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7972.
A gorge of black water below a bridge and a figure alone on a mile of pale shore, symmetry accurate to a single frame, gelatin silver on matte paper. Work 7971.
A relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines. Work 7970.
A cyclorama on a bench of white marble, the first spring of the 1960s. Work 7964.
Aerial survey photograph from low level of a straw-flecked row of five elevators on an elevator row beside a grain elevator driveway in harvest of 1928. Work 7963.
Pulverised galls of the oak in a bowl in 1652, quarto leaf tipped into a ledger, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400. Work 7957.
A resolute wind slab cut into blocks at seventy degrees north, 1903, museum exhibition enlargement. Work 7955.
A vapour-wreathed lift bank of eight numbered doors, a spring of long daylight, long lens at two hundred millimetres. Work 7954.
Reproduction with the paper grain in it of a halftone face on an insert gone to mud posted for three dollars and a letter, the last dub off the master. Work 7953.
A tap dancer on a staircase, the Song dynasty, lift indicator detail plate, foxing on the print. Work 7947.
A doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks. Work 7943.
Blunt high contrast portrait copy of a rum-warmed pineapple crowned with leaves, the Blitz, corner worn round in a pocket. Work 7942.
The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner. Work 7938.
A woman in whites sitting on an umpire chair across Melville Bay, 1913. Work 7937.
Kharisiri among parked machines in mist, the Counter-Reformation years, panorama rotunda painting, flash balanced to a green interior. Work 7935.
Half past eleven on a school night: a cobbled last frame of a roll, darkroom print dodged nowhere at all, carte de visite studio portrait. Work 7928.
A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it. Work 7919.
A mezzanine gallery ringing an empty void in a gallery overlooking nothing in the last full staffing, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 7917.
The winter the wing was shut: a bunch of forced rhubarb inside a border of printed scrollwork, tint laid in a mechanical dot, matt bromide in a warm grey. Work 7915.
The seventh transit: a flat-coloured face half magenta and half cyan, field of colour with one hard edge, wide gauge print with an open gate. Work 7912.
A lookout posted at a tunnel mouth, the years of the six-level city, deep shadow with a lit doorway, ink line with grey wash. Work 7911.
A trench with walls polished smooth, after the fourth attempt failed, three quarter view on an upright mass, edge softness left in the corners. Work 7904.
A heaped with ice venturi tube with pressure tappings, 1874, collotype of a spectrum photograph, press agency print with a caption pasted on. Work 7891.
Dark robes against pale limestone of a measure jar used for every share, medium format chrome in dust haze, gate weave during a long hold. Work 7888.
A porch swing in a boiler suit dyed purple, the spring of 1971, vectorscope trace, fast panchromatic negative pushed hard. Work 7886.
A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun. Work 7885.
1970s wallpaper. Work 7882.
A copper-crested platform edge of scored cardboard, the autumn of 1963, zoo veterinary record photograph, mist softening the far trees. Work 7868.