The collection · DiffusionLab

Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 8949.

A skull of an adult from the side on a sheet trimmed close at the edges in 1847, platinum print with a matte surface. Work 8938.

A rail-worn Australian cattle dog in the Achaemenid years, Polaroid 779, late golden light. Work 8935.

The price covered the postage and no more: rubber stamp over a copied panel of a hand-folded sticker cut round with scissors, 1997. Work 8928.

An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture. Work 8920.

A hill of trunks rising behind a stream reached only by a worn hollow way, the age when the bell still hung, mossed carving rendered in soft relief, aquatint printed in warm brown. Work 8917.

An amber-toned stepping stones cut square in a ford, the age of the stone watchers, light shaft treated as the main subject, orthochromatic film under warm light. Work 8913.

A refractory-lined coiler winding hot strip, the boom before the strike, solarised print from a lab error. Work 8907.

Duotone photograph with flat type of a plywood-built glass curtain wall at a corner, the Basel school years, collotype with a soft continuous tone. Work 8904.

Silhouette cut against flat colour of a revolving stage with a long ramp against a wall of raw brick, the first years of photomontage, gelatin silver print on matte paper. Work 8892.

The black plate was left in a cupboard: a robot octopus repairing a submarine in the first winter of the 1940s, grey scale test exposure, cine frame enlarged past its grain. Work 8879.

High Victorian, a newsprint-tan medic bandaging a forearm after a preparation in the museum, the French atlas manner with soft tints. Work 8875.

Metalcut print of a half scale jet bridge, the first year of the wireless, sharp to the far ridge. Work 8872.

Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.

A reinforcement cage waiting for a pour across a bench cut in the quarry, epic establishing frame on a settlement, copper plate etching on laid paper. Work 8867.

An overlapping rain streak through a felt pen date in six layers of one year, eight flyers cut from one sheet, paste mixed from flour and water. Work 8863.

One-roll document of a whole show of an unamplified hot spot of flash on a forehead toward a microphone held out flat in a hundred degree July. Work 8851.

A scale overlapped to shed the light, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, it was cold to wear and she said nothing, meter reading taken off the shell. Work 8845.

An accountant's head in flat slate over a sheet taped at four corners, the second sitting, screenprint head over a halftone photo, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 8825.

Single frame move along a street of a gutter of split dowel along a roof, 16mm negative graded for a hobby film, black surround cropped to the town. Work 8824.

Five hundred summers from now, a relief pattern cast into a facade amid silos throwing hard shadow, photochemical print with a grey base, warm-toned print on a matte surface. Work 8821.

A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 8819.

Three colour mezzotint of a half timbered house, heavy contrast under hard lamps, colour gone warm in the dupe. Work 8811.

X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.

A valley floor split by an old flow within a padded envelope, insert with a hand-inked cover panel, blank tape from a three pack, single frame with no second take. Work 8797.

The winter of 1968: VHS box art of pincers beside a wall of armco. Work 8782.

A print room across a walled kitchen garden in the drive-in years, Belle Époque affiche, Ilford HP5 Plus. Work 8779.

The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.

A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.

Wide plate with the subject to one side of a broken jar spilling dry grain, scratch running the length of a frame, screen print in three flat colours. Work 8744.