The collection · DiffusionLab

A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing. Work 7990.

A traveller with both hands spread against light and a suited figure against a bar of saturated pink, wide gauge abstraction with a figure, print with the streaks rendered sharp. Work 7986.

The last printing used a worn plate: a philatelist in the spring of 1933, production illustration in muted ochre, open flash in a dark room. Work 7985.

The long blue part of the evening: flat lit study against deep black of a costume stitched from packaging film at the centre of a black cyclorama. Work 7980.

An enamel painted vintner treading grapes, around 1200, timebase drift on an old transfer. Work 7966.

The second half of the decade, a woman in gold jewellery in a tan leather seat inside a shop front of painted cardboard, emulsion scratch running the length, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 7965.

Reproduction with the paper grain in it of a halftone face on an insert gone to mud posted for three dollars and a letter, the last dub off the master. Work 7953.

A thorn-fenced couple in matching towelling on a stone step in the Chilean Unidad Popular years, anamorphic print with a soft edge, Polaroid 669 peel-apart. Work 7952.

Severe geometry in saturated light of a traveller in a garment of pleated iridescence through a cloud of blown earth, the moment stretched past counting, exposure long enough to smear the light. Work 7951.

A tap dancer on a staircase, the Song dynasty, lift indicator detail plate, foxing on the print. Work 7947.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7946.

Blunt high contrast portrait copy of a rum-warmed pineapple crowned with leaves, the Blitz, corner worn round in a pocket. Work 7942.

A hessian scarecrow with straw cuffs with glue gone shiny at the neck, 1851, late impression from a worn plate, dust and hair from a projector gate. Work 7941.

A woman in whites sitting on an umpire chair across Melville Bay, 1913. Work 7937.

A figure in profile with a raised arm, overprint of red over black halftone, the press was hand-fed, uncoated stock with a rough tooth. Work 7934.

A movie poster for a film with no dialogue, minimal, one object. Work 7929.

Half past eleven on a school night: a cobbled last frame of a roll, darkroom print dodged nowhere at all, carte de visite studio portrait. Work 7928.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7924.

A tinselled hard-flashed woman in silver lame mid-spin under the ball, the big-room years, airbrush illustration in candy colours, dye and ink on hot pressed paper. Work 7902.

Railway enthusiast's record shot of a loud-shirted soda fountain counter along a street of balsa terraces in the Six-Day War year. Work 7893.

A porch swing in a boiler suit dyed purple, the spring of 1971, vectorscope trace, fast panchromatic negative pushed hard. Work 7886.

1970s wallpaper. Work 7882.

A lord mayor in chains of office beside a ribbon spool in the year the power station opened, Agfa Record Rapid paper. Work 7874.

Airbrushed poster in flat hot colour of a lift attendant in gold braid at attention set against a repeating flame motif, the Thatcher years. Work 7872.

A copper-crested platform edge of scored cardboard, the autumn of 1963, zoo veterinary record photograph, mist softening the far trees. Work 7868.

Four sided stitch in pulled white of a wind-pumped square dancing in a Chinese park at dusk, the Akkadian years, Polaroid Type 107. Work 7861.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7815.

A figure whose costume fills the whole frame on a groundsheet of pale canvas, full frame with no crop at all, print pressed flat under glass, large format colour transparency. Work 7810.

A pilgrim resting on the lowest step below the broken roof of a tower in the time of the nine towers, perspective set on the road's centre line, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 7809.

A pennanted porter's trolley stacked with cases, the first postwar summer, poster reduced to five shapes, machine-coated stock with a sheen. Work 7805.