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A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel. Work 10202.
Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975. Work 9324.
A frost giant blowing on a window atop a plinth battered by wind, chromogenic print with a warm cast, fast film pushed two stops, colour left as the meter read it. Work 9262.
Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought. Work 8886.
Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8813.
Film to tape transfer frame of a water tank of riveted plate on legs in the Vijayanagara years, flash cube burn in the corner. Work 8783.
A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil. Work 8736.
The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.
A rushed toy catalogue robot printed twice in the quarter the press was overdue a service, broken type where the plate scratched, green where the flesh should be. Work 8561.
Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte. Work 7944.
1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7667.
Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crate of packing straw and stone in the long waiting season, sepia wash over a pencil outline. Work 7351.
A dust-ringed massaman curry in a storm sewer mouth, the August bank holiday of 1976, large format colour at a slow shutter. Work 7089.
Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency. Work 7067.
A hundred staples and no flyer left made of mailbox side covered in pasted paper near a boiler and a water heater, the night before a show, eight flyers cut from one sheet. Work 6697.
A tinplate lunch box with a rocket beside a glowing reactor port, the late 1930s, neon sign photography, sodium light over a parking lot. Work 6580.
An Igloo cooler with the lid open beside an ice machine in the last week of August, colour supplement photograph, purplish cast from a faded print. Work 6460.
The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light. Work 6422.
A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956. Work 6401.
The last summer of the refineries, a chopped alley with a single fire escape waiting at the end of the bar, high-contrast copy print. Work 6381.
A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam. Work 6249.
A paperboy dropping the sponsor's flyer before the late film, station identification frame, colour bleeding outside the lines. Work 6181.
The year the reef was still clear: cruise line brochure page of a fruit stall stacked with mangoes in a Dubrovnik old town lane. Work 6156.
The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun. Work 6096.
A dispirited all inclusive schweinshaxe, the 1890s, drain survey camera still, mould on the emulsion. Work 5877.
Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now. Work 5868.
A judicial yeti by a post box, Hawaiian quilt, raindrops lit up, cosmic background glow. Work 5665.
Kodachrome slide of a hoopla stall, Type C colour print, Kodak Ektachrome E-4. Work 5575.
A landfill site in the style of a Voyager golden record, camera shake. Work 5493.
A quarantine tent, pharmaceutical advertisement, pipe cleaner, bus shelter advert glow. Work 5473.