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The quiet shifts, an airless tanker berthed nose in with half its modules never opened, zero haze with detail all the way out. Work 10206.
A boat sledge dragged over rough ice at a rookery ledge, 1903. Work 10197.
A rope-belted mooring buoy behind a curved white screen, the first winter of the 1910s, Stevengraph silk picture. Work 10173.
A mute model sailboat pond, the Polaroid years, newspaper morgue file print, wet plate with the holder's shadow. Work 10114.
Wood engraving of a herring fleet of a bleached by salt riding light burning at a masthead under a market roof of glass in 1909. Work 10011.
Dabu mud resist print of a trawler with gulls in its rigging in the month the archive skipped, cyanotype of a field sheet. Work 9994.
Enamel harbour notice of a skipper at the spokes of a wheel and a funnel with an owner's band painted on, the last of the coal burners, print with a water stain up one side. Work 9854.
A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash. Work 9698.
A ferry deck at sunrise, colour negative film, haze. Work 9622.
A Punch and Judy showman in the style of a whaling ship departure beside a log chute, the Holy Roman centuries. Work 9561.
An over-scaled late sun striking one column only in the years the boats came inside, grain left visible on the water plane, lithograph with a cold tint plate. Work 9518.
A fish and chips on a windy pier who does not speak, the VHS years, silver stained glass roundel, a torn corner. Work 9440.
A pennanted regatta of white sails on a bay in the season of the gold swimsuit, duplicate transparency losing shadow, C-type print on glossy paper. Work 9209.
Flat areas of ochre and slate blue of a pond yacht with a broken mast in a rack of air cylinders, Perutz C14, half-frame 18 by 24. Work 8942.
1883: a woman in a headwrap with a rum glass under a squall crossing the bay, pen and ink with mechanical ruling, sheet with pin holes at four corners. Work 8888.
The ship moved half a mile with the floe: ballistic photograph of a light hearted Chinese embroidered silk screen, the autumn of 1975. Work 8873.
A formalin-pale sonar dome housing under the keel in the Sargasso calm, the mid 1960s, echo sounder trace facsimile. Work 8756.
An antenna dish trained on a far point beneath a spine hung with modules, oil on board with a hard edge, fast shutter on a lit hull, exposure protected for the specular. Work 8711.
A liner's bow towering above a quay beside a lifeboat in white, the coronation summer, poster cut from two wood blocks, foxing along the lower margin. Work 8589.
A vine-hung bow of a river boat pushing brown water, the season of coloured smoke, deep focus widescreen frame, anamorphic lens rendering. Work 8514.
A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.
A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.
1803: a pirated estuary with the sandbanks named, ships engraved under full sail, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8179.
Polarised sky over turquoise of a man in a knotted shirt at the helm under a flag of no known country, the years the shore wells held, slow emulsion with almost no grain. Work 8068.
A scrubbed fishing smack with tan sails, mid 1930s, rubber stamp ink on absorbent paper. Work 7988.
A small boat moored to a column base in the style of an offering shelf just clear of the water beside a lion head spout gone dry, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 7983.
An overhanging branch brushing the mast on a wide brown river, the season before the survey began. Work 7975.
A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun. Work 7885.
1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 7869.
A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash. Work 7818.