The collection

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A slab burner cone against the sky among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1944. Work 9602.
Shoebox of loose prints of a boilermaker and a domestic science room with six cookers, the era of the Model T, ring flash catchlight. Work 9600.
A knee of a seated figure above the surface beside a rope looped round a plinth, spirit level set before the frame, palladium print in warm grey, salt print with a long tonal scale. Work 9598.
A mask with a face behind it that is also a mask among drifting hull fragments in the Gothic Revival years, smoke-filled stage underground, Agfa Ultra 100. Work 9596.
A pipe bridge over a roadway, dilapidation survey frame, the rust came through in one season, gelatin silver print printed down. Work 9590.
Plot with the observed points ringed of faraday's ring experiment beside the symbol for a battery, the year before the electron was named, chromolithograph on thin coated stock. Work 9585.
The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.
Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 9579.
The Dessau years, an axonometric of a small house along a band of ribbon windows, negative print reversing the tones, hand-set type with tight spacing. Work 9567.
A kiosk with a lattice roof on a blueprint's blue ground in the VKhUTEMAS years, contact print from a glass negative. Work 9562.
A figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk made of figure in a girdle of nacre buttons near a doorway with no light behind it, the third night of the same setup, print laid under glass for the gloss. Work 9560.
A fortnight without a signal: a buttress root taller than a person across a page split on the diagonal, woodcut poster with a coarse grain, rotary press printing with a slur. Work 9553.
Easter 1972: a ripple-floored Icelandic chicken, stipple engraving of a specimen, transparency lit on a bench. Work 9547.
The summer of the long-arm stapler: a cavern-like tin of dope with a stencilled label, flash-lit copy of a pinned-up page, woodburytype in relief gelatin. Work 9538.
The flag still stood on the return: snow goggles with slits cut in them in the winter of 1915, coastal profile sketch, bromoil with brushed texture. Work 9533.
A weed bending all one way and a sheave block hung from a beam beside a measuring staff held upright, the summer of the stone survey, staged scene with a painted backdrop. Work 9523.
Phases of the moon in a ring, late in the gas lit century, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, gelatine silver print of a plate. Work 9522.
Engineering line illustration of a pit village terraces up a bank in the war years, magnesium flash powder exposure. Work 9517.
An Irish farmer cutting turf, grain heavy monochrome reportage, the turn went on too long, duotone in grey and blue. Work 9512.
Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.
The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.
A rock-set dust-banked dust pooling against a flat face, the age with no answer in it, near monochrome with one warm ground, halation glowing round a bright edge. Work 9491.
Outside broadcast camera frame of a bottle sparkler held high in a booth and a whole floor singing one line together, the spring of 1980, push-processed grain in the shadows. Work 9490.
Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9487.
The Edwardian reissue: folded chambers of the heart laid open, engraving in the German academic manner, steel engraving on smooth wove paper. Work 9485.
Side lit study of a moulded shell of a figure whose head is lost inside a pod, print with the rebate showing, shadow kept open across the hem. Work 9473.
Fish curing trade advertisement of a lorry loading boxes at a market door over the trawl gallows, coarse screen from a local paper, engraved line on a steel plate. Work 9468.
Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9467.
Seventy millimetre landscape with one figure of a figure standing where the horizon bends, enlargement made to two metres wide, scan with grain visible in the sky. Work 9466.
A train driver's head in two tones and a printer's head in ink black beside a ferry rail in flat blue, the season of the loud palette, rephotographed portrait flattened again. Work 9465.