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A stone-floored potting shed with seedlings on every sill past a raft of floating logs, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the third one from the left, Japanese ema votive plaque. Work 10284.
A whip stitched half height cottage at the back of the stage, the autumn term of 1971, archive transfer with the head splice kept. Work 10263.
A sectional model cut open on a housing estate walkway, the year before demolition, staged interior photograph, raking light across board marks. Work 10250.
A thread frayed men's house on a wet tarmac, the Palaiologan years, Ghanaian hand painted film poster. Work 10115.
The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print. Work 10054.
Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner. Work 10053.
Slow pan across a model village of a clay lamp post bent slightly to the left beside a well with a string bucket, one long afternoon in 1969, archive copy with a splice at the head. Work 10048.
A chimney stack tapering to a rim on a pavilion's outside stair, registration out by two millimetres, photographed flat in even light, scalpel edge showing on a cut-out. Work 10000.
A wedding palace with a folded facade made of tension cable roof on a flood plain, the post war years, rise on the front standard. Work 9962.
A gone green Ndebele painted house beside a peacock chair, the Rhodesian UDI years, process plate for a background. Work 9908.
A spray-flecked orange grove with a white farmhouse, the first postwar summer, poster proof with registration marks, poster paint up to a ruled edge. Work 9904.
Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border. Work 9868.
A trench cover slab lifted aside made of chainlink fence with a bowed top rail past a gatehouse window grille, the night the yard lamps stayed on, 6x7 negative on a night tripod frame. Work 9848.
A vegetable garden overrun by zucchini at the foot of a cut bank in the Chola years, fast monochrome film at 400 speed. Work 9794.
A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster. Work 9752.
A doilied Carpenter Gothic cottage, the Fauve years, miniature effects unit still, 126 Verichrome Pan. Work 9751.
A tin roofed shed at the edge of a strip and a tie down rope on a blade tip in the short tropical dawn, the first years of the 1970s, sun in frame with heavy flare. Work 9656.
A cloisonné hairpin and a Quaker meeting house, long lens shot from the gallery window, flaking emulsion. Work 9647.
The Dessau years, an axonometric of a small house along a band of ribbon windows, negative print reversing the tones, hand-set type with tight spacing. Work 9567.
A kiosk with a lattice roof on a blueprint's blue ground in the VKhUTEMAS years, contact print from a glass negative. Work 9562.
Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin. Work 9516.
The third crossing season: a violet-rimmed traveller suspended with the arms folded, luminous plane treated as architecture, wide frame with the flare left uncleaned. Work 9460.
A level crossing gates of matchwood and tweezers holding a tiny sign, wide view of a town two metres across, lettering printed onto the frame. Work 9454.
A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 9452.
A crate-nailed palm avenue leading to a house against a sky of graded cobalt, 1927, stipple shading on fruit skin. Work 9391.
A party stopped in a perfect row on the stairs of a walk-up, a week of flat white weather, painted wrapper for a hardback, flat proof before the black went down. Work 9294.
The price on the board was wrong: a binder cutting a headland in the first week of threshing, photo essay on a wheat town, yellow filter over a blue sky. Work 9241.
The age of the walking routes, a dead shrub holding a scrap of cloth beneath a sky bleached to bone white, flare cutting across the whole frame, glass plate with a dusty emulsion. Work 9195.
The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.
A rancho gate of peeled poles against a sky of graded cobalt, the last season before cartons, sign painter's shaded capitals, chalk price wiped from the surface. Work 9164.