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A frost giant blowing on a window atop a plinth battered by wind, chromogenic print with a warm cast, fast film pushed two stops, colour left as the meter read it. Work 9262.
Heroic labour poster illustration of a docketed hard hat with a tally number among reference numerals from 1 to 40 in 1872. Work 9229.
A helmeted head seen from below and a newspaper page spread on a rail, magazine cover with an overprinted circle, over-inked to a solid black. Work 9207.
The winter after the crop failed: country weekly photograph of an elevator shadow long across a grid road at the end of an elevator spur. Work 9202.
Printed on India paper and mounted of heavily inked layers of the retina magnified on a folding plate bound at the spine in 1814. Work 9188.
The carriage smelled of oil and varnish: a footpath of steps climbing beside the track in the winter timetable, souvenir view of a mountain railway, hand tinted photograph in pale washes. Work 9179.
A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace. Work 9172.
The year the floodlights were installed: a figure halfway down an excavation wall above a cordon nobody crosses, hard raking light across raked dust, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 9168.
A canvas-walled moraine of black rubble on white along a ship's rail in rime, the winter of 1915, the depot was found under new snow, surveyor's photographic station. Work 9146.
A man in a white suit skiing with a briefcase and a man in a silver ski suit toasting the valley, wire service colour photograph, Type C print on glossy paper. Work 9113.
A crooked-pasted eclipse over a crowd with paper glasses in the 1920s, Efke R17, poster paper cracked along a fold. Work 9061.
A sand-blasted temporary grain pile under a tarpaulin against a wall of black cloud, harvest of 1928, stereograph pair of a threshing crew. Work 9060.
A man in a red suit balanced on one ski, the last of the manual choke, promotional film frame with a lens flare, screen print in five saturated inks. Work 9024.
Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth. Work 8999.
A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.
New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug. Work 8947.
A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide. Work 8946.
A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 8936.
A movie poster for a western nobody made, painted illustration, dust and sun. Work 8930.
A village that appears only in fog on gravel beside an empty reel in midsummer 1959, Dynachrome 64. Work 8927.
A snow-blind tent floor of reindeer skin left standing for the next party, 1912, stores inventory sheet. Work 8899.
Gouache elevation of a facade of a candlewick-covered glacier tongue behind a pastel facade, the week the expedition arrived, pastel chalk on cream stock. Work 8898.
A shepherd counting a flock below a tower at the foot of nine hundred steps in the second long winter, heroic scale study with a human for measure, cyanotype in slate blue. Work 8883.
A mountain road in autumn, kodachrome, saturated, low sun. Work 8871.
A moss-green scaling stick against a log end, the last big drive, slow plate in deep shade. Work 8870.
Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.
A summer with the pan hard all through, a windrow of salt raked into a line on ground with no shadow on it, 65mm negative exposed for a white ground, print with the highlight clipped flat. Work 8849.
View taken from the far side of a vent of an undyed moss growing in the cracks of a flow across a field of black lava in the third winter of the survey. Work 8842.
A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.
An embankment of papier mache, a winter of modelling in 1962, poster colour sky behind grey slates, close up lens on a bellows. Work 8796.