The collection · DiffusionLab

A sphere resting on cracked ground in the style of a wall crossing a ridge without turning in the lee of an upright slab, the second era of the watchers. Work 7976.

Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7972.

A gorge of black water below a bridge and a figure alone on a mile of pale shore, symmetry accurate to a single frame, gelatin silver on matte paper. Work 7971.

Aerial survey photograph from low level of a straw-flecked row of five elevators on an elevator row beside a grain elevator driveway in harvest of 1928. Work 7963.

A resolute wind slab cut into blocks at seventy degrees north, 1903, museum exhibition enlargement. Work 7955.

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

A doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks. Work 7943.

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

The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner. Work 7938.

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 perfume bottle repeated in six inks against a hoarding of pasted copies, a commissioned portfolio, halftone stencil screenprint, photostat blow-up of the grid. Work 7932.

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.

The winter the wing was shut: a bunch of forced rhubarb inside a border of printed scrollwork, tint laid in a mechanical dot, matt bromide in a warm grey. Work 7915.

A lookout posted at a tunnel mouth, the years of the six-level city, deep shadow with a lit doorway, ink line with grey wash. Work 7911.

A heaped with ice venturi tube with pressure tappings, 1874, collotype of a spectrum photograph, press agency print with a caption pasted on. Work 7891.

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

A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun. Work 7885.

1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 7869.

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

A patented derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel beside a printing telegraph type wheel, the first year of the office serial, dash dot line for the centre axis. Work 7858.

The Olivetti years: a chapel on a traffic island beside a pier standing in white water, institutional annual plate, steel engraving on plate paper. Work 7857.

Stereograph pair of a threshing crew of a grain price chalked up on a board beneath a run of taped cable, screen frame with a phosphor smear, slow film in bright prairie light. Work 7852.

Field study finished indoors of a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm under a north-facing skylight, Adox CHS Ortho 25, the wall lit and the face dark. Work 7850.

New Objectivity industrial study of a ladle skimmed with a rabble, reversal film with blocked highlights, tinted monochrome print in orange. Work 7844.

Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of a rope-tended silt cloud raised by one boot, 1896, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp. Work 7841.

A dog eared spleen with the trabeculae shown, the Edwardian reissue, two colour printing in black and red, India proof on a thin sheet mounted down. Work 7840.

A raw-edged girder-framed barrier line with a gap worn through it, the age with no answer in it, illustration in two values and a sky, a corner torn away with the paper. Work 7835.

Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a man in a checked shirt with three phones ringing under a haze of cigarette smoke, four decades under the upper city, frame with a raster line pattern. Work 7833.

A void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate. Work 7832.