The collection · DiffusionLab

Block schematic of the whole apparatus of a chain tensioner on a rear fork among five towers on a ridge, the years of the survey, zinc line block on gazette paper. Work 6972.

A rocket nosecone in a scrapyard and a pelota court, botanical type specimen photograph, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod. Work 6971.

A fridge advert with a green interior, the last job before the works closed, trade illustration in four flat tints, crop marks left inside the page. Work 6970.

Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes. Work 6969.

A radio mast of open lattice inside a turbine hall, the negative was scratched already. Work 6968.

Lubricant poster illustration of a woman in a silk dress on a picnic rug below tipping slag on a hillside, heliogravure plate in a folio, dye transfer print from three negatives. Work 6967.

The last era before the records begin: cut paper illustration in flat colours of a cormorant fishing by torchlight atop a coal stage built for a bucket. Work 6966.

Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15. Work 6965.

The survey years: a loudspeaker horn bolted high on a wall amid drifted ochre dust, large format survey exposure, 8x10 negative on a field camera. Work 6964.

A dead tree white against green held in a beam of green light, the fourth week upstream, hallucinatory colour treatment, spherical wide gauge lens. Work 6963.

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.

An electron gun by a stove in a cold hut in the decade the river stopped falling, zodiac roundel in gold and azure, tube camera bloom on a bright lamp. Work 6961.

A tailor working a treadle machine below a vertical stack of signage, cucoloris shadow over the crowd, halation around every tube sign, 70mm night exterior. Work 6960.

The season the funicular opened, a dumb waiter hatch in a panelled wall toward a mountain wall in a window, large format colour with a deep haze, violet ink number in a margin. Work 6959.

The year the labels were retyped: an unblinking balance pan of polished platinum, matched pair either side of a case, dust visible in a high beam. Work 6958.

An abyssal plankton net dripping over a bucket, the mid 1930s, depth figure written in the corner. Work 6957.

One point perspective down a flooded nave of a Haida totem pole carver in flower and in fruit at once, 2010. Work 6956.

Four-ink railway poster of a mushroom house running into ochre haze, the age of the loaded animal. Work 6955.

A barrel cactus in flower on a veranda above a valley, uncut sheet with register marks, chalk price wiped from the surface, proof pulled before the black went down. Work 6954.

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 paid-off knife-scarred juror sweating in a hot courtroom, the summer of 1953, wash and gouache over graphite, offsetting from the facing page. Work 6952.

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

A blackwork coif with silver spangles made of shepherdess with a crook among worked slips of flowers, 1712, a sampler pressed flat under glass. Work 6950.

A parapet of blocks worn round by rain above an arcade crossing a dry valley in the long flood age, monumental architectural elevation, pigment print on heavy cotton. Work 6949.

Storm light across a bare granite face of an abandonment plan rolled in a tube in an age when the gate still held, twenty second exposure on a stone tripod. Work 6948.

A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art. Work 6947.

Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15. Work 6946.

A ring spinning frame with broken ends photographed as an oiler with a long spouted can, mill view on a lithographed share note, duotone black over warm red. Work 6945.

A sun-backed rotor blades blurred into a grey disc through a curtain of spray, the short season of clear mornings, the shadow arrived first, 70mm silhouette frame. Work 6944.

The row never closed and never quite opened: a dancer catching a cue off the monitor in a dress run in 1976, steam lit from a single side, photochemical print with a green bias. Work 6943.