The collection

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Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a man in a checked shirt with three phones ringing under a haze of cigarette smoke, four decades under the upper city, frame with a raster line pattern. Work 7833.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7802.
A driver in a short sleeve shirt at speed inside a canvas paddock tent in high summer of 1963, long lens at 400mm on a hairpin. Work 7764.
1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style. Work 7686.
A spark-bright struck match with a yellow flame in a fiftieth anniversary year, embossed brand word in the paper, flat colour with no screen at all. Work 7684.
A hand-hauled sastrugi cut into hard shapes, 1903, pencil caption in a neat hand. Work 7677.
Stitch detail held in close up of a felt fox with a pom-pom tail within reach of a black gloved hand, timebase wobble left uncorrected, colour thinning in the darker felts. Work 7669.
A peacock worm and a prince turned into a stag, screenprint on newsprint at speed, stipple shading on a globe figure. Work 7653.
A needle threaded with two strands made of crazy patchwork with worked seams on a sheet where the ink has bled, an Edwardian workbasket, silk floss on a linen ground. Work 7649.
A rowan against a cheap flocked wallpaper in the Impressionist years, gouache race poster illustration, photograph pasted onto a flyer. Work 7608.
1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7553.
The slogan was in the wrong language: vignette fading into the paper of a foil-stamped match head bursting into flame, the post-war export years. Work 7546.
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.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7525.
An ivory-armed zodiac-inlaid projection dome of perforated panels, 1923, operator at the console portrait, line engraving of a geared model. Work 7519.
The artist was paid in return tickets: simplified poster silhouette of an ochre-sanded deck steward with a tray of ices, the 1931 winter season. Work 7477.
A glinting woman serving with a ball tucked in a pocket beside a bell on the clubhouse wall, the August tournament, he broke the racket and won anyway, wire service photograph of a final. Work 7468.
The 1938 edition, a hobnailed mouse in a corn stook holding hands in a long line, woodcut with a bold black key line. Work 7465.
Grid of the same stencil in new inks of a fisherman mending a net, pochoir with hand cut stencils, drip run down from the top edge. Work 7402.
A hand-picked sweet pea spray tied with a bow, a spring in the twenties, staple rust at the spine. Work 7392.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7388.
An inspector with a clipboard held level made of guard walking beside a moving train under a dragline boom, an unrecorded season, 65mm frame with a huge sky. Work 7359.
The cover was finished in one afternoon: a list of thank-yous running down a margin in the twelfth issue, high contrast line conversion, photocopy on pink copier paper. Work 7343.
An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station. Work 7327.
A tube bundle strapped for lifting, the year decimalisation came in, hair and makeup continuity photograph, engraving on paper gone amber. Work 7304.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7274.
Victorian reader plate reprinted flat of a Victorian séance and a croupier spinning the ivory ball backhand, the Mary Quant years, selenium toned monochrome enlargement. Work 7262.
A man in mirrored shades lighting a long cigarette photographed as a cider label with the yellow off the edge, silkscreen poster in four flat inks, broken type where the plate scratched. Work 7236.
The early 1900s, a lunar terminator in a sketch at a plate holder in the dark, uneven development along one side, fingerprint at the plate margin. Work 7196.
Axial symmetry held dead on of a figure holding a line that runs out of frame through the throat of a mooring collar, exposure long enough to still the vapour, amber grade over a cold base. Work 7178.