The collection

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A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 9841.
A mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock. Work 9834.
A heliometer objective split in two, sunspot projection sketch, she bought it in the brochure colour, ink plot on graph paper. Work 9831.
A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc. Work 9828.
The line never stopped for anyone: a twin figures either side of a press in the third week of a shutdown, flat graphic figure in black, print spotted out with process white. Work 9821.
Face-on figure standing on the bottom of a chamber gauge read by an attendant at the knee of a carved figure, gum print over a platinum base, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 9819.
Licensing inspection photograph of a town square, Ektachrome E100G, Fujicolor Superia 200. Work 9818.
A calico bodied bird of paradise headdress at the end of a long platform, the Counter-Reformation years, topographical collection print. Work 9809.
An age measured in miles of paving: lithograph in three stone greys of a lap of a seated figure used as a shelter at a relay marker on a straight mile. Work 9796.
Poster paint illustration in flat colour of a group filling a convertible in the studio, Tri-X on a seamless backdrop, acrylic over an airbrushed ground. Work 9795.
A bottle of sauce in six colourways within a border of bare paper, a run pulled overnight, print with the motif traced by hand, stencil edge printed as a hard line. Work 9792.
A figure standing with both arms raised beyond a bend of pale river, the shadow arrived first. Work 9780.
1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 9775.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 9774.
A woman in a halter dress lifting a chrome kettle and a man in a bold striped shirt at a calculator, tabloid nightlife photograph, magazine halftone at 150 lines. Work 9760.
A blown-out taxi driver's face in flat amber inside a magazine cover crop, an hour before dawn, straight-on architectural record. Work 9750.
A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view. Work 9738.
Portrait on newsprint at speed of a press photograph reduced to a stencil, print photographed under a hard lamp, two colours out of register by a hair. Work 9737.
The closing stretch of the crossing: a flat-coloured figure crossing a plane of glowing violet, saturated single-hue lighting scheme, matched optical pass over a gradient. Work 9733.
A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943. Work 9724.
Hard shafts through a slatted blind of a subject leaving between two attendants, anamorphic with a cool streak flare, line illustration inked on film. Work 9723.
The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light. Work 9716.
Rendered in one flat blaze of light of a face veil beaded along its lower edge outside a shelter with no roof, slow emulsion holding a deep black, photochemical grade with a warm base. Work 9712.
A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9699.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9697.
An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun. Work 9686.
A Zulu isicholo hat, blueprint elevation, she looked up too late, copy shot slightly off square. Work 9679.
A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 9675.
Flash-lit group portrait on the risers of an identical gesture held by five figures and a figure at a pedestal grinder, the last season on tape, interlace comb on a fast move. Work 9666.