The collection · DiffusionLab

A shirtless plastic tumbler of iced tea beside a table with a paper cup on it, the early 1970s, half-frame snapshot. Work 6124.

An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge. Work 6101.

The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun. Work 6096.

A motionless note left on a kitchen table on a Baltic shore, 1972, tableau composition. Work 6091.

A rack of tape machines in a basement in a diner booth set, announcer voice over shot, scratched sixteen millimetre release print. Work 6090.

A ledger of names and dates in a loft on West Broadway, the invigilator sat here all day. Work 6085.

The early 1920s, a titled croquet hoop on a lawn at the end of the table, estate record photograph. Work 6083.

A chair placed in the middle of a room in the style of a projectionist in a booth in a provincial town square, the spring of 1968. Work 6076.

A sleekly tailored stack of four colour progressive proofs in a bowling alley lounge, 1957, twenty for the price of nineteen, pastel and gouache ad illustration. Work 6066.

Bechers style typology of a law courts with a heavy cornice on a cleared site, infrared rendering foliage white, silver gelatin print on fibre paper. Work 6062.

A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6. Work 6052.

County fair premium book page of a fair packing up at dawn in a tabard full of change, 1955. Work 6048.

A jukebox in an empty bar facing away, 1975, production still from a long take, long take with no cut. Work 6035.

A barrel vault in concrete and a top lit reading room, black and white architectural study, Kodachrome 25 transparency. Work 6029.

Studio portrait in soft focus of a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake across a stainless counter, the winter of 1933, gold leaf on a printed border. Work 6019.

A safe standing open across a room from an open door, ask for me at the desk. Work 5996.

A telephone ringing in an empty flat and a queue at a counter, film still in black and white, rack focus between two faces. Work 5991.

An angler in waders lighting up in a theatre lobby at intermission, the Madison Avenue years. Work 5984.

A poster printed in one colour, serial photographic survey, the work exists in a filing cabinet, dust spots left unretouched. Work 5980.

A provincial hotel room with the curtains open at a window in the afternoon, 1960, nothing happens for a long time, empty frame after the actors leave. Work 5975.

A balloon and dart stall at the Foire du Trone, the early 1950s. Work 5961.

An eye reflected in glass in a bare white room, insert shot of an object, north light in a bare room. Work 5957.

Enamelled metal panel of a raked travel agency window with a ship model in a hotel lobby lined with marble in the boom years. Work 5956.

Typed sheet on headed paper of a neon sentence on a wall, vertical aerial frame, Polaroid taken as a record. Work 5938.

A glass of whisky on a case file under a corrugated awning, forty years from now, airbrushed poster art, practical lamps in frame. Work 5916.

A stoical sand-covered sanatorium terrace above the sea, the school holidays, amateur cine club film frame, sea spray on the lens. Work 5913.

A whitewashed travel agent's window full of posters in a courtyard with a fountain, the Concorde years, photographed in another country, timetable cover illustration. Work 5911.

A barber leaning in his own doorway at a country club bar, ask the man who smokes them. Work 5907.

A shrieking row of chaser bulbs beside a Big Tex statue over a Texas state fair, 1985, 16mm archive footage frame. Work 5892.

Magazine back page in gravure of a salesman fanning three packs on a counter at a corral rail in early light, large format studio strobe, bank of hot tungsten lights. Work 5865.