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The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern. Work 10300.
An iron balance with agate bearings and a copper still with a worm tub on a bench dusted with powder, 1633, plate reused with the letters changed. Work 9907.
Oil on panel in the Dutch manner of an eye bath of blue glass on a marble slab worn hollow, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, albumen print gone yellow at the edge. Work 9753.
Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season. Work 9657.
Engineering sectional elevation of a silk reeling basin with a filament and a piece of grey cloth on a perch, 1910, 120 roll film square frame. Work 9050.
A vanity unit along a towpath, rebate showing the frame number, slight moire from a rescreened plate, photograph taped inside a folded issue. Work 8789.
A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it. Work 8686.
Soap advertisement in a marble bath of a herringbone-floored man in braces choosing between two ties beneath a hanging map of one coast in the year the hall was panelled. Work 8428.
A swimming pool changing room, damp light, tiles, echo. Work 8285.
An improvised festoon lighting along a wet wall in a winter deep in the coming century, photochemical print with a cyan bias, colour transparency with pastel walls. Work 8210.
The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer. Work 8116.
1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8101.
A washbasin that folds into a wall in the style of a piano stool centred on a patterned rug beside a navigation table under a lamp, the year the hull was silvered. Work 8018.
A wall niche with a small stone figure within an inner court open to the sky in the years nothing was carried out, watercolour over a graphite grid. Work 7931.
A bathtub with a whale tail above a valley of ruled fields, engraved plate impression on wove paper, archival print on museum board, panoramic negative on 617 stock. Work 7742.
The audit decade, a fountain basin with no water in it beneath a skylight grid of amber haze, emulsion mark along one edge, wide lens with distortion corrected. Work 7576.
Lifestyle feature on room service of a slippered woman putting a diamond in the soap dish, out of season and half the price, print mounted on board for a client. Work 7511.
An elevator wheel with a wooden rim at a washbasin folded out of a wall, two hundred men let go together. Work 7434.
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 directional arrow on a wall inside a darkroom's red light, the last Berlin year. Work 7073.
The key came back on the wrong hook: baths of white tile in a row in the months nobody travelled by day, wide angle interior with true verticals, registration soft on the far ridge. Work 6931.
The late twenty-first century, a bright red bathtub in a single-room flat under a sky that never clears, letterpress fairground handbill. Work 6450.
An eye reflected in glass made of man laughing alone in a bare white room, the late 1960s, deep focus stopped down. Work 6362.
A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam. Work 6249.
A mink collared bathroom mirror in a nightclub beside a mirrored ceiling over a floor, the last year of the 1970s, point of sale display print. Work 6155.
A bed with a hot water bottle and a long drop toilet, shellwork mosaic panel, paper negative. Work 6068.
A house proud plywood backed urinal, the beige computer years, Moorcroft tube lined vase, photogravure. Work 6051.
An eye reflected in glass in a bare white room, insert shot of an object, north light in a bare room. Work 5957.
The era of the retrofitted machine, a ceiling fan turning in a wet room against a wall of condensation, magenta shift in an old transparency, super eight home movie film. Work 5863.
A pale blue sunburnt room key on a plastic fob, the long summer of 1977, colour supplement photograph, Kodachrome-X. Work 5842.