The collection · DiffusionLab

Tannoy announced escargot tongs in a grand salon under a single lamp, the New Economic Policy years, airline in flight magazine photograph. Work 9731.

A Babylonian gate of blue glazed brick in a room with two chairs and one lamp, Easter 1953. Work 9725.

A revolving stage with a long ramp in a hall of open steelwork, the 1925 exposition year. Work 9709.

Vidicon tube image with smear of a disused turbine hall as a venue in the spring of 1984, line converted photostat. Work 9689.

A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece. Work 9680.

The atlas was bound out of order: a figure at the hub of a rotating floor in the era of the sealed interiors, severe architectural rendering, plate with the tissue guard still bound in. Work 9652.

A shaft of sun standing in a gallery inside a corridor with a bright end, dream sequence stone still, long lens stacking the towers. Work 9643.

Hand coloured natural history plate of air intake grilles in a concrete flank in the years of the sealed windows, body colour over a pencil line. Work 9642.

High contrast show photograph of a ceiling tile knocked out of its frame below a bare bulb in a ceiling socket, the last show in that cellar, photograph shot at a stretch overhead. Work 9612.

A star-speckled cooling fan behind a projector base, 1941, curvature of a dome pulled straight. Work 9604.

A thread-strung blackmailing German pickle ornament, the Expo 67 summer, mail order coupon page illustration, diffraction at f22. Work 9603.

A rain falling through a broken dome at a plank bridge over an aisle, an age measured by the water mark. Work 9592.

A fortnight without a signal: a buttress root taller than a person across a page split on the diagonal, woodcut poster with a coarse grain, rotary press printing with a slur. Work 9553.

A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A cable car summit station in the lobby by the jukebox in the spring of 1954, D-76 at 1 to 1. Work 9532.

1928, an oil-smelling cooling fan behind a projector base under a dome of perforated panels, archival copy of a show still. Work 9530.

An austere lectern bolted to a concrete floor in the years of the works, tritone with a brass highlight, rust tone in the midtones. Work 9520.

An orchestra pit before the audience arrives, long exposure, warm light. Work 9498.

A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 9495.

The trolley came up three times before noon: presentation plate for a shareholder report of a chalk-pastel promenade deck with a sloped window wall, the year the gantry was built. Work 9445.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

A records office with wall-high files in a lit vestibule for gowning in the era of the issued childhood, blind shadow across a steel table, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 9436.

Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.

A telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground. Work 9427.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

Overprinted colour out of register of an escalator ribbon inside a glass flank at the end of a very long table, the decade of the vertical franchise, top light with deep floor shadow. Work 9419.

A half asleep pahoehoe at the centre of an empty map room, the Cuban Revolution years, humanist street photography frame. Work 9416.

A wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.

A wash stand with a matched jug and bowl and a mounted ibex head over a fireplace, two colour litho in pink and mint, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9336.