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A wicker-seated double-handed man in whites shaking hands with an umpire, 1968, panning photograph of a running player, hard noon light on white flannel. Work 8676.

Carte de visite portrait of a hand-tapped jelly wobbling on a silver plate beside a scale of leagues and one of miles in the year the works opened. Work 8674.

Bauhaus photogram of a Guatemalan worry doll pouch within a ring of folding chairs, the 1980s, pencil registration marks left on. Work 8657.

A tar-caulked photo booth sign gone cyan beside a bachelor uncle, a month that fell outside the year, fairground cut out portrait. Work 8656.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours. Work 8651.

Reflection frame in a boat windscreen of a woman in a peach bikini holding a parrot beneath a hotel sign in script neon, a long weekend in 1984, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 8650.

An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.

The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.

A soft-edged suited figure lit only along one edge, the seventh transit, 70mm print with the colour left screaming. Work 8600.

A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens. Work 8599.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

A papa a la huancaína, die cut scrap sheet, the shell came from a taped-over album, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8591.

A woman at the wheel with her eyes shut, the last night of the season, jewellery advertisement under a chandelier, print spotted out along the rail. Work 8575.

A renaissance portrait of a stag as a general, oil on panel, armour. Work 8572.

1846: keyline engraving with flat colour behind of a wire and felt shepherd in a wool cloak beside an old coastline left in dotted line. Work 8565.

Still life of table silver on baize of a woman in a pleated gown by a mirrored column through a shaft of sun on bevelled glass, colour transparency of mint and brass. Work 8554.

Naive figures worked out of proportion of a maker's name and her age in small letters worked in two shades of green, the mid Victorian decades. Work 8552.

A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls. Work 8545.

Well into the age of the grown limb: benday pattern behind a figure of a war nurse under a canvas roof between two waiting attendants. Work 8540.

The Reconstruction era, a tiple at the top of chapter one, interlace comb on a fast move, a faded dye coupler stain. Work 8526.

A tuyul, the closing years of the 1980s, department store studio portrait, chromolithograph in six colours. Work 8519.

A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper. Work 8513.

The Courrèges years, a glassy-eyed map sheet weighted with two stones in a sack dress that hides the waist, Tunbridge ware mosaic. Work 8506.

A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.

A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps. Work 8490.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

Offset lithograph on thin label paper of a figure in a headpiece of anodised titanium, transparency on a light box in the dark, duplicate transparency made for the file. Work 8475.

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

A man in a purple floor jacket palms out against a wall of framed certificates, February 1989, mixed lighting frame left uncorrected, print with a caption pasted below. Work 8469.