The collection · DiffusionLab

The spring of 1968: a congregation with their heads bowed on a deserted promenade, Agfacolor frame, fog softening the background. Work 5946.

A barber leaning in his own doorway at a country club bar, ask the man who smokes them. Work 5907.

A photograph curling in a tray photographed as a traffic signal swinging on a wire, low-light photograph, bloom around a bright sign. Work 5893.

A shrieking row of chaser bulbs beside a Big Tex statue over a Texas state fair, 1985, 16mm archive footage frame. Work 5892.

Instamatic snapshot of a Scrambler in full swing and a rain on a painted ride front, 1957, Kodak Tri-X. Work 5879.

Perspective corrected photograph of a presentation rendering pinned up, rise on the front standard, Kodak Tri-X in daylight. Work 5872.

A statue weeping moths, housing condition survey photograph, the rain has not stopped in years, dust and hairs in a slide mount. Work 5871.

Magazine back page in gravure of a salesman fanning three packs on a counter at a corral rail in early light, large format studio strobe, bank of hot tungsten lights. Work 5865.

A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows. Work 5851.

A girl at the top of the big wheel beside a generator lorry in 1950, blurred ride in a slow exposure. Work 5847.

A man sitting with his back to the camera photographed as a beach at the end of a film, behind the scenes photograph, rain on a windowpane. Work 5834.

Polarised landscape photograph of an empty beach in the rain in the years of the dust, low sun behind the dust. Work 5825.

A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand. Work 5802.

A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 5795.

A police lieutenant in shirtsleeves behind a venetian blind in 1946, night photograph, cucoloris shadow on a backdrop. Work 5791.

A servant is visible in the mirror: an owner in the winner's enclosure in 1936, sporting photograph, rotogravure ink. Work 5767.

A retrofitted noodle stall under a flickering tube, the decade after the blackout, environment concept painting, shot with Panavision C-series glass. Work 5764.

A crowd watching something out of frame, black and white, 35mm, grain. Work 5723.

The mid 1970s, a fishermen mending a net by a lake in flat light, lamp flare into the lens, printed one stop down. Work 5715.

An alpine ball boy crouching in freezing rain, Benin bronze plaque, seaside illuminations, Holga. Work 5680.

Anti-smoking poster of a statue with a missing nose on a mountain summit, computer lab monitors. Work 5642.

An air raid warden shouting at a lit window in the style of a cowherd asleep under a hedge, folded in quarters. Work 5632.

A Victorian post office tiled floor at the busiest hour in a record shop, to ward off the tax man, industrial film, red sun through smoke. Work 5630.

A hollow eyed skittish hákarl, the Reconstruction era, blurred distant figure photograph, Fuji FP-100C peel-apart. Work 5624.

Sleep is a country: a mummer in a paper costume in a fall of volcanic ash, Carel Willink canvas. Work 5617.

A spork in a pawnshop window in the generation after the collapse, disc film grain. Work 5611.

A broke diner counter at three in the morning in the mid 1950s, silhouette against a lit wall, figure lit only from behind. Work 5602.

An old tusked garden gnome, Jamini Roy painting, before the house was sold, real estate HDR. Work 5587.

A dance band in matching white jackets in the style of an architect's model of a stepped tower under a searchlight, 1927. Work 5584.

Lewis chessmen of a choir rehearsal in Tudor England, frozen droplets. Work 5582.