The collection · DiffusionLab

A certificate of authenticity in a frame and a filing cabinet as an exhibit, institutional critique wall text, tripod at a fixed height each time. Work 6561.

The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print. Work 6553.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene. Work 6518.

Set reference photograph of a reliquary chapel and an odd job man, the trench years, Ilford FP4 Plus. Work 6503.

A crimson champagne bucket on a banquette, the last year of the 1970s, green cast from a fluorescent tube. Work 6492.

Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing. Work 6485.

One inch Type C tape transfer of a sponsor approved vision mixer desk in a gallery, 1977, image orthicon halo around a lamp. Work 6478.

A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera. Work 6474.

The year the archive forgot: a Russian wedding bread and salt in a best room kept for visitors, Ghiordes knot rug, Kodak Portra 800. Work 6468.

An atrium with glass lifts, 1928, perspective corrected photograph, split grade printing. Work 6461.

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.

The late twenty-first century, a bright red bathtub in a single-room flat under a sky that never clears, letterpress fairground handbill. Work 6450.

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

A loudspeaker mounted high on a wall in a Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, stencilled wall text, flat even gallery lighting. Work 6446.

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

A Mercury locomotive shroud and a smoking room with Egyptian murals, film still in black and white, large format with a shift lens. Work 6435.

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.

Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear. Work 6412.

A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead. Work 6408.

A presentation rendering pinned to a board and a terracotta panel with a stylised palm, pencil and wash study, tempera on panel. Work 6402.

A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows. Work 6397.

An autumn thirty years from now: a chrome-trimmed records office of paper stacks, gouache concept rendering, venetian blind gobo across a wall. Work 6396.

A dolls house with one room lit, available light, wide angle. Work 6394.