The collection · DiffusionLab

The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges. Work 6733.

A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard. Work 6718.

A cardboard shop front with a tissue window on a pavement of scored cardboard, the second baseboard of 1974. Work 6710.

The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers. Work 6709.

She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight. Work 6690.

An open door with nobody in it with the bill open in song, the second sitting, Kaiserpanorama view, 65mm negative with fine grain. Work 6667.

A symmetrical two clerks slapping palms over a terminal beside a crewel wool wound on a bone winder, 1738, line illustration with hatched shadow. Work 6661.

Relief carving rendered in flat light of a water lying level on both sides of a road along a band of colour running to a point, colour negative with no correction at all. Work 6658.

A shadow-barred light beam through a roof hole, a day the stone stayed cool, stillness as the subject, smoke pumped into a gallery. Work 6654.

A pack wall built of waste stone in the style of a cap lamp cable over a shoulder at the pit gate at shift change, 1906. Work 6649.

Hard rim light on a parapet edge of a ram's skull nailed above a doorway over a dry ditch on a lifting bridge, the first ascent of the pass, copperplate engraving with fine hatching. Work 6639.

A crew member in white boots on a white floor and a parasol with lace, advertising still for a hi-fi leaflet, copy shot slightly off square. Work 6636.

A food mixer under a stucco archway, a pound for the whole box. Work 6622.

A smoke-filled afro caught in a strobe at the door of a nightclub, the summer of 1979, smoked mirror etching. Work 6613.

A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source. Work 6594.

A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period. Work 6574.

A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display. Work 6571.

1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment. Work 6564.

Black and white documentation print of a plinth with nothing on it at a London institute of art, 1981, sequence shot on one roll. Work 6543.

Lithographed travel poster of a palm fringed propliner parked at a palm fringed field on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1972. Work 6520.

The early 1950s, an undocumented Guess Your Weight scale dated the day it was made, closed circuit camera image. Work 6491.

The mosaic was saved and the rest was not: Bechers style typology of a lichen spotted sgraffito panel on a stair tower, the reconstruction years. Work 6484.

A sentence set in vinyl lettering beside a doorway in 1981, film loop projected on a wall, one colour screenprint. Work 6473.

The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains. Work 6463.

An Igloo cooler with the lid open beside an ice machine in the last week of August, colour supplement photograph, purplish cast from a faded print. Work 6460.

Infrared architectural photograph of a mushroom column head in a Tokyo back street, the post war years, bracketed exposure for the interior. Work 6455.

A gun room with racked guns by a hand-painted depth marker in 1931, rotogravure ink. Work 6449.

A neon lit face at the door being refused, the mid 1930s, technical section in ink, rotogravure printing. Work 6439.

The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light. Work 6422.

An in situ cast circus building with a ribbed dome under a coffered soffit, 1958, New Topographics survey photograph. Work 6414.