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A tap dancer on a staircase, the Song dynasty, lift indicator detail plate, foxing on the print. Work 7947.

A woman in whites sitting on an umpire chair across Melville Bay, 1913. Work 7937.

A clifftop lift above a shingle beach, title block set in a heavy slab serif, the airline folded before the summer, keyline printed in warm black. Work 7898.

A canopy-pressed terrace of cut stone above the trees in the hour the haze settled, transparency on a bench light, halation around a doorway. Work 7849.

A sun-baked stair of two hundred worn steps past an inscription filled with moss, a week of coloured air, green dominant stone composition. Work 7767.

Pastel chalk illustration on tinted paper of a woman in a turquoise sash cutting a boat ribbon with a marina full of masts behind, the hottest week of 1987. Work 7757.

The year the index was retyped, two identical staircases to a map gallery atop a mooring float, half plate glass negative, bromide print gone slightly yellow. Work 7697.

Measured elevation at a fixed scale of a scaffold rig against a raw wall, duotone offset in grey and bone, fine grain sheet film rated slow. Work 7650.

Balcony overview photograph of a fog-wrapped man in a scarlet shirt open to the waist, high season 1978, Cibachrome print with hard gloss. Work 7639.

A figure alone on a vast concrete stair made of retaining wall stained by one rainfall across a plaza with nothing on it, the last of the great pours, 6x7 roll film in flat shade. Work 7615.

Reversed magenta haze between two towers at the top of two hundred steps, the turn of a slow century, plate of a relief panel. Work 7601.

A crowd standing in the only shade without a cloud over the well in the century the stair was cut, tonal study in stone and shadow, splice at a reel change. Work 7600.

A man in a yellow badge grinning at a ticker in the style of a man in a tan jacket vaulting a rail beside a tangle of handset cords, a Monday in October. Work 7532.

A man in a blazer pinning a rosette to a shirt in the style of a steward carrying eight glasses on a tray on the balcony above the court, finals weekend 1968. Work 7522.

A stair of stone steps beside a rail, the summer schedule, off season photograph of a closed station, anamorphic frame with muted colour. Work 7487.

A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.

A plaster cast in an ochre painted tray made of percussionist with a cowbell held high within a rack of numbered tubes, the syndication years, generation loss from a dubbed tape. Work 7441.

Model photographed in raking light of a spiral stair in a workshop wing in 1835, slow fine grain film on a tripod. Work 7399.

The week of the annual winding, a zodiac ring engraved in even degrees between two identical staircases, halftone screen from a trade circular, hand coloured engraving in pink wash. Work 7382.

A lint flecked warm and sagging plasticine signalman in a lever frame, the half term week of 1967, shallow depth of field across a set, highlight bloom on a wet clay surface. Work 7371.

A wall sized funicular carriage stepped like a staircase with the circuit closed, 1820, exaggerated scale to make an effect plain. Work 7339.

Stencil-numbered dumb waiter shaft between two decks near a rack of numbered life belts, the first season of the mast, a passenger counted the frames aloud, Victorian engineering plate in colour. Work 7261.

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 frost-split flight of steps vanishing into cloud beyond the highest tree on the slope, the time of the nine towers, monumental architecture under cold light. Work 7118.

The third rise of the level, an echo-filled haze flattening the far columns to grey dwarfed by the columns around it, reflected vault given equal weight. Work 7101.

An overbearing concrete stair cut a hundred metres up a cliff standing where the rock was removed, after the outposts were joined, orthographic plate with no perspective. Work 6973.

A moss line just above the water mark along a stylobate step run under water, one column stands where none was built. Work 6939.

Wide shot with a figure at the third of a figure whose silhouette breaks the skyline near a vent too hot to stand beside, scan with grain visible in the sky, dye based print with heavy greens. Work 6864.

The parrot belonged to the bar: a man in a lilac jacket holding a marina flag in the boom on the waterfront, slow shutter frame of neon at dusk, print with the blues pushed to ink. Work 6840.

A deer fence of split stakes in the style of a cut stair with a brass handrail pin near an inscription filled with moss, the first clearing. Work 6777.