The collection · DiffusionLab

A rock hammer beside a basalt pillow behind a bank of instrument lamps in 1947, bottom camera exposure, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 7630.

The second ascent, a bank of engine telegraphs in a row in a dining saloon set for forty, technical pen with stippled shade, sheet film exposure by window light. Work 7617.

Silhouetted figure at a great window of a factory floor with every machine silent, daylight stock gone amber, varnish over a printed plate. Work 7611.

Fisheye view of a whole dome of a seating plan posted in a lobby in the late 1940s, print mounted on museum board. Work 7595.

A teapot of hammered brass in the style of a rug of interlocking rectangles against a glazed studio wall, the Basel school years. Work 7594.

A shadow play against a curtain of falling water, the 8-bit years, structural engineer's defect photograph, Tri-X at a long exposure. Work 7592.

Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7572.

The inspection lasted eleven minutes: a dust suspended over a polished floor in 1806, two colour plate in ochre and oxblood, large format sheet film with deep haze. Work 7537.

1870, a uniformed aerial reel hanging under the hull with every chair turned the same way, chromolithographic interior view. Work 7536.

A gear-quiet gramophone turntable at a console on a maintenance night, 1923, the lamp blew during the eclipse part, night exterior with a lit entrance. Work 7534.

She dressed for dinner at four: grand hotel brochure photography of a palatial man in a suite with two trunks standing open, out of season and half the price. Work 7528.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

Deep focus from desk to skyline of a pneumatic tube terminus in a clerk's wall in the decade of the vertical franchise, heavy halation around lit windows. Work 7521.

The year of the first descent: a coal-smelling saloon ceiling coffered in mahogany, composed like a museum diorama, limelight on a large interior. Work 7520.

A foil-wrapped beetle-green corridor with handrails on both sides, a decade lit by shop windows, blueprint plate in white on blue, studio strobe through a small reflector. Work 7504.

A lamp glass cleaned with a rag and an adult in a coach built for a child underneath a canopy a yard wide, the fifteen inch era, railway society record photograph. Work 7498.

A ballast bag slung between two frames behind a band of curved glass, architectural perspective of an interior, letterpress with a tissue overlay. Work 7489.

A dust-free blower duct under a dome floor under a pointer arrow of light, 1923, filmstrip frame for a lecture. Work 7488.

A fall lit from behind by nothing obvious beside a niche with a number over it, the stove smoke went up and vanished. Work 7478.

Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall. Work 7473.

A unison-struck patchbay with cables hanging loose in five hundred summers from now, exposure set to hold the shutter marks, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 7464.

A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 7428.

A coastline hatched in fine strokes below a ceiling of pale mint panels, 1828. Work 7412.

Model photographed in raking light of a spiral stair in a workshop wing in 1835, slow fine grain film on a tripod. Work 7399.

The Weimar years: a pavilion of concrete and glass on a mirror with a hard edge, geometric abstraction in flat colour, laid paper with visible chain lines. Work 7377.

Flash lit auditorium photograph of a glass case over a geared model as the narration began, the late 1930s. Work 7337.

A dust and vapour hanging in a light shaft under a bar of light on the water, an age of one drip and no other sound. Work 7332.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7328.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 7290.

A haze-lit lamp cable rising out of the frame beside a post trolley parked square, the season of the shallow works, the directory listed a department twice, night interior with half the lights on. Work 7284.