The collection · DiffusionLab

The filter tip years: an expensive looking martini with two olives on a pick, progressive proof sheet, hand spotted dust on a print. Work 6552.

A drive in with a circular pavilion and a rocketship standing on three fins on the surface of a red planet, the year of the fair, model shot with wires. Work 6551.

Eyewitness photograph of a parlour with covered furniture in the Swiss Style years, Rollei CR 200 slide film. Work 6550.

The first week of October, a listed civic hall with a raised forum with a service tower alongside, Diane Arbus style photograph. Work 6549.

The black and white television years: a sponsor approved hotel balcony with shutters thrown open, resort advertisement in a Sunday supplement, colour gravure on coated stock. Work 6548.

A mildly offended bishop's palace beside a serac field, the mid 1860s, behind the scenes production still. Work 6547.

A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page. Work 6546.

A board marked bas relief of workers in concrete from the far side of a dual carriageway, 1928, model photograph with a painted sky. Work 6545.

A shadow of a diving board under a fibreglass patio cover, travel agency photograph, Newton rings from a glass mount. Work 6544.

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.

Papers ready at the barrier: reportage photograph of a soot-stained gang in matching mirrored visors, the era of the retrofitted machine. Work 6542.

A geiger counter over bare ground in Del Norte County, headlights raking a field, Tri-X pushed two stops, low sun behind the subject. Work 6541.

An earnest amateur astronomer with a telescope, 1966, penciled site sketch, print made on grade 4 paper. Work 6540.

A footprints on a wet sidewalk made of sedan with running boards in a lobby with a potted palm, the mid 1940s, barn doors cutting the spill. Work 6539.

Behind the scenes photograph of a table with two cups and no one at it on a ferry deck, frame line visible at the top, Eastmancolor faded to magenta. Work 6538.

An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers. Work 6537.

Pulp interior illustration in line of a tailfin on a building parapet in 1935, offset lithography on toy tin. Work 6536.

A robot with piston arms, 1941, Populuxe brochure illustration, Technicolor three strip. Work 6535.

A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle. Work 6534.

A high contrast toy maker in the Art Deco years, mechanical vignetting, Polaroid SX-70. Work 6533.

The building was never finished: a Cinema Vox facade in Casablanca in the year the liner was launched, enamel sign painting, airbrushed on illustration board. Work 6532.

A marquee on a lawn made of full length portrait in a gilt frame on a driveway with the wagon parked, the late 1920s, snow from a weak aerial signal. Work 6531.

The post war years, a lecture theatre with raked seating on a Brasilia esplanade, fill flash in a dark lobby, north light through a clerestory. Work 6530.

The turn of the 1980s: neon sign design of a bass horn under a balcony at the end of the bar. Work 6529.

Engineering diagram of a plot of scrub land bought as a work in a print shop, flat light on a moor, Tri-X in a gallery. Work 6528.

An owner at the helm in a peaked cap photographed for Tatler, the first season after the war, society photograph, printed on bromide for the press. Work 6527.

Scale model publicity photograph of a gold vein running through quartz, Kentmere 100, split grade print. Work 6526.

A future built over an older one: video still from a security feed of a radio set with a lit dial in an alley two metres wide. Work 6525.

The architect never saw it finished: amateur cine club film frame of an anodised hotel block at Golden Sands, 1932. Work 6524.

A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate. Work 6523.