The collection · DiffusionLab

Portrait with the horizon removed of a figure in a hat the width of a table, grain visible only in the flat ground, print toned slightly toward olive. Work 6787.

A hat box stacked on a leather case photographed as a service bell push beside a bed, staff portrait on a grand staircase, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 6759.

An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame. Work 6754.

Photo story with invented captions of a woman in oversized pearls at the pool steps mid-laugh with the head thrown back, August on the coast. Work 6740.

A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966. Work 6738.

A headdress of bent brass petals near a crossroads with no signpost, the rope had a grip worn smooth. Work 6735.

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

An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph. Work 6720.

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.

Four-colour newsprint comic panel of a forkful of spaghetti in red dots with a pink hotel sign overhead, the year the marina filled up. Work 6708.

A felt king with a sequin crown through a pedestrian slot in a wall in the years of the twelve-hour shift, tiny figure against an enormous wall, colour shifted towards green. Work 6699.

The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp. Work 6692.

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.

The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon. Work 6681.

Colour test with green filtration of a light coming down in solid beams and a headdress of feathers and wire, the far end of the dry season, graduated magenta over the top of frame. Work 6676.

Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied. Work 6675.

A ragwort lined out by hand in one colour, the shag pile years, frame with the flash not quite recycled, grade with the shadows pushed to cyan. Work 6653.

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

Visas arranged by the agency: timetable cover illustration of a straw hatted lacquered tray of tea things, 1960. Work 6605.

New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s. Work 6578.

A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400. Work 6566.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 6557.

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

1965, a peasant procession of villagers in the same coat every day, Nouvelle Vague frame. Work 6516.

Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3. Work 6505.

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

A porter carrying two cases up steps aboard a liner at sea in the first season after the war, web offset brochure printing. Work 6487.

A woman in a wrap dress, Warhol style silkscreen portrait, the bar stopped serving at four, harsh direct flash. Work 6475.

The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing. Work 6464.