The collection · DiffusionLab

Crystalline glazed vase of an agitated Cuba libre, the Kohl years, contact print from a 620 negative. Work 8494.

Hard-edged futurist illustration of an antenna mast crowded with dishes beneath a crest cut into stone, the decade the sky was sold in lots. Work 8491.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

A hull being scraped of weed under a following sea, 1909, linocut of a trawler under way, grey scale with no white in it. Work 8486.

One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire. Work 8483.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

The season the brine never rose, a pyramid of salt with a figure beside it at the edge of a drying pan, dye transfer print in white and indigo, one stop over for a dark garment. Work 8460.

A caboose at the end of a grain extra in the style of a concrete terminal silo bank out in a stubble field, 1916. Work 8458.

Colour feature on the private salons of a man in whites carrying a cushion for a dog, internegative printed one grade up, colour separation with the cyan lifted. Work 8455.

A flat cap by a kitchen range in the spring of 1953, coastguard station record photograph, a soft flatbed scan. Work 8445.

A cream-lined booth of pale panels with a curved roof lined out by hand in cream, the first season, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8443.

Shellacked field lines around a bar magnet in late in the gas lit century, printed on paper that has gone slightly grey, ink on squared paper from a notebook. Work 8436.

A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310. Work 8432.

Soap advertisement in a marble bath of a herringbone-floored man in braces choosing between two ties beneath a hanging map of one coast in the year the hall was panelled. Work 8428.

Flat colour lithograph primer illustration of a lifeboat on its slipway and a crest above a helm and mantling, around 1150, streaky rolled glass in lead. Work 8421.

Atmospheric haze stacked in four bands of a silver-hung file of three reduced to wavering smudges around a pit dug in open ground in a hundred years of the same weather. Work 8412.

Two men in pastel jackets on a marina walkway with the jacket over one shoulder, peak season for white linen, panning frame of a moving hull, glossy C-type print on resin paper. Work 8410.

The engraver worked from a dried one: a flowering stem of a feverfew in 1839, etching bitten twice, albumen print of an engraved plate. Work 8408.

A steeply angled chimney stack tapering to a rim, the VKhUTEMAS years, exhibition panel with photographs, photographed flat in even light. Work 8396.

A footballer's head in four flat inks, the last print of the series, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, poster print pasted and peeling. Work 8395.

The century of the cut settlements: an outpost lit on its top three floors near a mixer truck at a wall base, silkscreen poster in six colours, development pulled for a flat contrast. Work 8393.

The last summer of steam: an ash-dusted driver oiling round with a can, shed roster record snapshot, silver gelatin contact print. Work 8388.

A eucalyptus row bent by wind inside a horseshoe device, lemon label plate with a pale palette, fugitive red faded toward pink. Work 8387.

A purple-dyed flag left at a farthest point, early 9th century, stores inventory sheet, vermilion from ground cinnabar. Work 8386.

The first season: a long-bonneted woman in sunglasses timing a run by hand, flashbulb photograph at a prize table, enamel sign finish in cream and mint. Work 8383.

A lightly inked portal vein and its tributaries, the hour before the klaxon, stencil cut and sprayed on paper. Work 8382.

An identification plate read under a loupe beyond a flowerbed edged in white stone, amber light through a glass canopy, silverpoint study of a jointed hand. Work 8374.

The skin faded in the cabinet: a great crested grebe in display in the third summer of the survey, refraction distorting the lower frame, gouache on hot pressed board. Work 8372.

A milk float humming at dawn, a time before the first record, photochrom station view plate, APS HDTV crop. Work 8371.

The night before a show, an upside down flyer nobody fixed below a hand-inked skull, pasted sheet photographed and copied, paper gone grey through four rains. Work 8368.