The collection · DiffusionLab

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 silk-lined man pouring from a bottle held at arm's length with a magnum held by the neck, the bonus season, carriage panel landscape. Work 8376.

The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page. Work 8349.

A thinly-printed bottle-green surface with no mark or joint on it, the patient centuries, horizon set on the lower third, varnish over the printed panel. Work 8213.

A stage brace propped behind a flat before a painted village street, his nose was a bottle top all along. Work 8144.

Engraved figure from a monograph of a frost-edged spectrograph bolted at a Cassegrain focus, 1897, slide taped between two cover glasses. Work 8114.

1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule. Work 8029.

The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term. Work 8021.

A traveller with both hands spread against light and a suited figure against a bar of saturated pink, wide gauge abstraction with a figure, print with the streaks rendered sharp. Work 7986.

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.

A hexagonal bottle with a glass stopper on a river the colour of tea, 1726. Work 7901.

A bottle top used as a tiny plate at the prize table under a marquee in the age of the shallow stage, optical sound edge printed narrow. Work 7748.

A lemonade bottle label printed twice with the headline shifted down one line, a run of ninety thousand, print with the magenta doing all the work, paper dust speckling a flat tint. Work 7735.

Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light. Work 7709.

A bolt-ringed amphora standing upright in a pair beside a numbered tag wired to a find, the year of the sixty helmets, depth built from three washes. Work 7665.

Feature matchbook with a shaped top of a silt-veiled cocktail glass with an olive, the post-war export years, aniline pink shifted toward grey. Work 7645.

Crude woodcut coloured by a reader of a collodion bottle with a brush in it, sheet browned where a shelf touched it, salt print through a thin negative. Work 7569.

A miniature forest under a bell jar, soft light, moss. Work 7459.

A bramah press in section in the style of an isomers of butane side by side under the department stamp, the fifth revised impression. Work 7444.

The autumn of 1962, a matchbook tiled across a grid toward the only water for fifty miles, trade weekly page on matt stock, scanned from a label in an album. Work 7440.

Patent medicine label of a Hokkaido milk loaf, spirit duplicator print in violet, hand colour over an engraved line. Work 7357.

A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout. Work 7279.

Colour supplement page art of a chemist's window bill with slipped labels with the grey built from three plates, the quarter the press was overdue a service. Work 7217.

A cold-shocked specimen jar labelled in grease pencil in 1934, seawater spot on the emulsion, blueprint white on cyan. Work 6983.

The year the labels were retyped: an unblinking balance pan of polished platinum, matched pair either side of a case, dust visible in a high beam. Work 6958.

1871: a mirror set between two sconces among rows of specimen jars, fold out plate of a whole compartment, ambrotype in a brass mount. Work 6730.

A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground. Work 6715.

The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string. Work 6705.

Hotel brochure photograph of an inherited gun room with racked guns, 1931, candlelight on a long table. Work 6587.