The collection · DiffusionLab

A head of a drumhead cabbage on a slate outside a greengrocer, letterpress with a stock engraving, paper showing through the flat colour. Work 7184.

The age of the wedge and the sled: an inspection gallery under a road deck along an avenue of seated figures, heavy chiaroscuro under a gate vault, ink and wash over a scribed underlay. Work 7171.

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.

A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block. Work 7152.

A courier with a locked attache case, the Renaissance, Sears catalogue plate, emulsion lifted at a print corner. Work 7134.

A wire armature showing through a knee made of clay coalman with a sack of grit on a rolled plasticine hill, the first colour series of 1969, gate weave rocking the whole frame. Work 7128.

A weed-grown silt-hazed pump handles worked in opposite time, the summer of the stone survey, scale of a figure against cut stone, aquatint with a dark ground. Work 7108.

An airless bolted-together suit stand with a helmet on the shelf, the last of the crewed stations, concept illustration in cold greys, lith print with a crushed shadow. Work 7086.

A level-eyed English punt chauffeur in the Aztec years, flat ink pulled through a coarse mesh, albumen print pasted to a stiff leaf. Work 7085.

A suited figure beside a tank taller than a hall, the second generation of gantries, wood engraving in a weekly paper, heavy-black chromogenic print. Work 7065.

The Safavid years: a canvas-suited cut root of a monkshood, xerographic grain at full contrast, blind emboss with no ink at all. Work 7052.

A black figure on a sheet of pure white before the wind comes across the pan, the sled came back lighter than it went. Work 7045.

The open outcry years: publicity still from a gambling film of a man in a dinner suit betting with a pen in hand at a table with the shoe in its box. Work 7016.

Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7009.

An age measured in miles of paving, a kerb-worn road vanishing into a pale wall of mist larger than anything else in the valley, dust-lit interior of a stone passage. Work 7004.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 6990.

Deep in the century of the pyramid: pre-visualisation frame of a low sun mirrored down a canyon of towers under bunting of cut felt triangles. Work 6962.

Human scale against an enormous flywheel of a bulged panel bowing out of true, box camera negative, tungsten balance in a marble hall. Work 6953.

A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963. Work 6951.

A walker leading a loaded animal and a block being lashed with wet cord, long lens compression over flat salt, print with the highlight clipped flat. Work 6937.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6936.

Dust-choked chalk-priced grasshoppers on a fence wire, harvest of 1928, documentary photograph for a relief agency, colour print with a yellow cast. Work 6930.

The belt took his arm in 1911: newsreel frame of a mill closure of a spindle-scarred knocker up going along a street, 1910. Work 6920.

A tape traded hand to hand up the spine of a taped case, biro lettering enlarged on a copier, home-dubbed ninety minute tape. Work 6919.

Two attendants carrying a rolled white mat and a figure descending a ladder of lit rungs behind a hatch of smoked glass, the second century of the passage, deep focus anamorphic frame. Work 6917.

A movie poster for a spy film set in one hotel, 1963, geometric. Work 6914.

The Taisho years: a crane-haunted wrestler's handprint pressed on paper, pine needles cut as fine strokes, worm holes through the lower margin. Work 6874.

A crush of splintered props along a street of thumbed clay houses, the teatime slot of 1970. Work 6871.

A spare heads on a strip of cardboard before a painted sky flat, he was posed for a week in one stride. Work 6869.

An axe-squared face wrapped against the reflected sun in the short season of good crust, carbon print in a single black pigment, screen print in black over white stock. Work 6859.