The collection

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A patient Japanese beach house awning, 1972, Shirley Baker style photograph, tracking lines at the bottom. Work 6277.
16mm archive footage frame of a donkey waiting on the sand in the holiday season, Kodachrome 25 transparency. Work 6219.
A whitewashed hotel on a cliff on a quay with fishing boats, publicity photograph for an airline, Hasselblad 500C on a beach. Work 6212.
A Rolls-Royce on gravel on a private beach, 1934, press photograph of a ball, background painted out. Work 6200.
A pier in low cloud behind a windbreak, 1972, 8mm home movie still, glare off wet sand. Work 6184.
My mother took this: a high-rise hotel behind the beach in the wakes weeks, David Hurn style photograph, light leak at the cartridge change. Work 6087.
A unidentified sandcastle with a paper flag, 1962, flat overcast light. Work 6008.
An Artek pioneer camp on the shore in a poster hoarding, theatrical footlights from below, flat spot colour lithography, Fujichrome R25N Single-8. Work 5977.
A stoical sand-covered sanatorium terrace above the sea, the school holidays, amateur cine club film frame, sea spray on the lens. Work 5913.
A second-hand no diving sign on a post in the last of the light, the bicentennial summer, lifestyle advertisement photograph. Work 5910.
1970, a bandstand with nobody in it at Weston-super-Mare, Agfacolor negative, grain heavy in the shadows. Work 5903.
Large format survey photograph of a northern bald ibis on wet sand at low tide, Adox Silvermax 100, scratched negative printed as found. Work 5898.
1960: found footage still of a kite over the dunes at the water's edge. Work 5852.
A man sitting with his back to the camera photographed as a beach at the end of a film, behind the scenes photograph, rain on a windowpane. Work 5834.
Polarised landscape photograph of an empty beach in the rain in the years of the dust, low sun behind the dust. Work 5825.
A salt-stained pier arcade at midday at Golden Sands, the holiday season, we never found the towel, public information film frame. Work 5800.
1971: a wicker Strandkorb on the Baltic sand on the Lido di Venezia, colour snapshot, telecine flicker. Work 5794.
A palm fringed thatched roof over a bar printed over with a price panel, the year the reef was still clear, brochure gatefold of a resort. Work 5773.
A wind-blown lifeguard chair with nobody in it, 1969, yellowed print emulsion. Work 5733.
A stretch of the Shonan coast in August on a wet promenade at dusk, saucy seaside postcard, shot against the light. Work 5727.
A helter skelter above the beach made of wyrd loom at Baia degli Angeli, Christmas 1958, daylight balanced under tungsten. Work 5603.
A radio that receives nothing, Horst P Horst photograph, nonexistent, from a lifeguard chair. Work 5595.
A glass bottle with a marble stopper and a nunatak in a lifeboat, Senegalese souwer glass painting. Work 5542.
Miniature claymation surf diorama, oil painting, muted colours, soft lighting. Work 5466.
PS Kroyer beach painting of an insurance assessor at a retirement party, human for scale. Work 5394.
An anvil cloud and a surfboard on top of a lighthouse, seaside guidebook. Work 5389.
A jumble-sale diploma in a frame made of wet sand, dress pattern catalogue, extension tubes. Work 5356.
A tide pool with its instructions at an oasis, ask your father, scrimshaw, curled print. Work 5307.
A sepia fossil ammonite in 1947, Dutch winter landscape, macro, heavy JPEG compression. Work 5139.
A mineral specimen, Provencal santon, theoretically possible, salt spray. Work 5134.