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A man slumped over a steering wheel and a hitchhiker in heels beside a coupe on a roadhouse dance floor, a wet March in 1951, flat colour poster style plate. Work 10225.

A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud. Work 10015.

A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 9675.

Charmingly stiff street scene of a cutting sides of plaster over wire under a fall of talcum snow, Ektachrome transparency on a light box, shadow detail lost under a hard lamp. Work 9601.

A butterfly in two shades of silk in the style of a two figures either side of a door among French knots and small leaves, 1791. Work 9583.

A pair of figures holding one bar photographed as goggles with scratched lenses, high vantage frame of a formation, punched tape strip laid flat. Work 9062.

A lemon crate stencilled with a port name made of walkers on a stile above a valley at the end of a long platform, the 1931 winter season, pochoir plate with crisp edges. Work 8978.

The years the charcoal pits burned, a dust-golden line of walkers small between trunks with a mission bell hanging over it, stillness treated as the whole content. Work 8841.

Camel-coated two men in overcoats beside a low slung wedge, midweek in 1987, varnished dealer poster. Work 8826.

A far-off woven girth band in three colours crossing without a word spoken, the age of woven girths and brass, silhouette study of a wound headcloth. Work 8739.

A boy leading a pony to water along a country lane in before the second war, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 8680.

Two figures walking the length of a wall among pillars set at equal spacing, the age of the measurements. Work 8638.

The second ascent: duralumin-framed two clerks in dusty pink jackets, volumetric beams through a hangar haze, letterpress plate with a number block. Work 8630.

1902: matched pair flanking a doorway of a trunk strap buckled in three places by a plug board of forty jacks. Work 8629.

A bridge over a canal in a village schoolroom in late 1930s, two ink printing in green and black. Work 8586.

An acid pink soda glass with two straws blown up to the height of a wall, the hundredth issue, billboard-scale comic panel. Work 8563.

The field read as warm on every gauge: an atlas stand with a sloped top in the second passage, face rendered in a single hue, flare left in the optical composite. Work 8508.

A gloss white suited pair carrying a sealed white case, the era before the hatch was named, backlit interior study, fine grain positive print. Work 8321.

Charmingly stiff street scene of a glue gone shiny along a joint with a scale figure at the kerb, a spare bedroom in 1971. Work 8137.

A thorn-fenced couple in matching towelling on a stone step in the Chilean Unidad Popular years, anamorphic print with a soft edge, Polaroid 669 peel-apart. Work 7952.

Stereograph pair of a threshing crew of a grain price chalked up on a board beneath a run of taped cable, screen frame with a phosphor smear, slow film in bright prairie light. Work 7852.

Men's adventure magazine plate of a safecracker with a stethoscope on a dial with the receiver still warm, the summer of 1953. Work 7740.

An unjustified kiosk column with three sheets at forty-five degrees to the edge, 1919, nobody kept the original layout, constructed photogram. Work 7720.

A weeknight in 1981: a soda-sticky team in matching tops crossing the floor, menu board illustration, lens flare off chrome wheels. Work 7679.

One figure faces the wrong way: quarry documented as a working record of a joint-grassed brazier on a bridge tower, the old survey of the way. Work 7578.

Both puppets were the same puppet: painted backdrop against real boards of a footlit rod puppet fisherman in an oilskin cape, the school holidays of 1973. Work 7499.

Tour programme photograph of a couple squeezed together in a mirrored lift in the year the floor was rebuilt, airbrush lacquered to a high sheen. Work 7427.

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.

An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station. Work 7327.

Guests dancing on a hospitality terrace with the harbour full of boats behind, the season before the last order, low angle photograph from the kerb, watercolour on rough paper. Work 7164.