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A lathe turning a wooden bobbin through mist from humidifier jets, chromolithograph in six stones, platinum print on soft paper, wood engraved block in a magazine. Work 7422.
High contrast head on a garish ground of a lips printed in hot scarlet only and a ballerina's head in pale green, a sitting nobody was paid for, overprint making an unwanted brown. Work 7421.
1872: mill town panorama from a hill of a half timer asleep on a bobbin box in a scouring bowl shed. Work 7420.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures and skeletons archival 16mm broadcast telelvision still kodachrome. Work 7419.
Disposable camera flash at close range of a thin-aired prism train inside a spectrograph, an August with no fan, monochrome print at postcard size. Work 7418.
A bell hung in a bridge tower arch in the style of a flood mark cut high on a pier under the knee of a seated colossus, the third widening of the road. Work 7417.
An excursion-bound row of bathing huts painted in stripes past a silhouetted headland, the first postwar summer, luggage label vignette. Work 7416.
The bridge went in the next flood: a drowned village in the last job before the works closed, flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks, stopped to f32 for front to back focus. Work 7415.
The years of the mechanics institutes, a referenced flywheel storing energy as seen through the eyepiece, rays ruled with a straight edge. Work 7414.
A thumbed milk churn lorry, the Moscow Olympics year, cross-processed for orange and cyan. Work 7413.
A coastline hatched in fine strokes below a ceiling of pale mint panels, 1828. Work 7412.
An unsurveyed wind-packed coal sacks carried over the ice, 1903, Paget process colour plate, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 7411.
A ticket office with the window shuttered, available light, worn counter. Work 7410.
A balcony grid of a studio building and a house with a flat roof and terrace within a five-column raster, the Dessau years, record sleeve on a plain grid. Work 7409.
Early Victorian: a wyvern in a corner of the frame within a knotwork border, engraving in the German academic manner, cyanotype copy of a plate. Work 7408.
The season every herd came at once: press photograph of a recovery of a radio room with a key and headphones at a darkroom sink at sea. Work 7407.
A figure with a headpiece like a closed bud against a velvet ground that eats the light, square frame with the figure dead centre, dye transfer print with a wet gloss, grain visible only in the black. Work 7406.
A magician's face in flat indigo photographed as a palm leaf manuscript, opus anglicanum in split stitch, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 7405.
A shadow running over pale sand across a huge orange sky in the morning after the rain stopped, horizontal blue flare streak. Work 7404.
A hand pressed flat against a field of light in the style of a dead end with a bricked arch on a woollen tammy ground, Christmas 1969. Work 7403.
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 shamisen player tuning a string under a moon of bare paper, 1788, oban upright composition, overprinted green from two blocks. Work 7401.
Locked off camera at a platform end of a gauge dial in a brass case in a cabin round a curved brass grab rail, enamel sign finish in cream and mint, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 7400.
Model photographed in raking light of a spiral stair in a workshop wing in 1835, slow fine grain film on a tripod. Work 7399.
Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7398.
Layout photographed square from above of a rotor ride and a crowd on a bank above two clay courts, a season with no name, Scotch Chrome 1000. Work 7397.
A hollow between dunes with a camp in it and a sand smoking off a sharp crest, backlit train rimmed in white light, pigment ink on a cotton sheet. Work 7396.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros. Work 7395.
Romantic sublime interior of a forest of a lichen-mapped helm set down on a mossy slab, the third age of the great trunks, grain left visible in the gold. Work 7394.
Group portrait on a clubhouse step of a sunstruck two men in whites carrying a bench beside a rack of wooden rackets in two weeks in July. Work 7393.