The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.

A pendant fitting hanging four storeys down photographed as a relief frieze running above a doorway, environment study in three flat values, print holding the shadow just open. Work 8308.

A concierge centred behind a pink marble desk photographed as a brass frame screwed beside a door, overhead plate of a laid table, single lamp raking across marble. Work 8307.

Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season. Work 8266.

Tableau of crew in matched pairs of a grand salon behind a single oval viewport outside a lit oval viewport, the second season under the ice, oil on panel with glazed shadows. Work 8216.

A cable of a suspended light fitting with the ballast already released, a year with no report, mirror symmetry across a marble hall, duotone in grey and mint. Work 8207.

A hall of cabinets vanishing into haze, the week of the inspection, hand tinted plate in mint and pink, colour negative printed slightly cool. Work 8146.

The Ottoman classical age, a bell that rings silence along a lit walkway to the floor, gum bichromate over a warm ground, green cast from ceiling fluorescents. Work 8090.

A bobbin-laden camera pointed at its own monitor against undyed linen gone honey, the Iron Curtain years, the hall let them have it for nothing, listed building consent photograph. Work 7998.

Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling. Work 7925.

The sixth decade of the company towns, a tower flank with three floors dark across a lobby floor of black stone, acrylic on hardboard with hard edges, bounced light off polished stone. Work 7756.

The year the index was retyped, two identical staircases to a map gallery atop a mooring float, half plate glass negative, bromide print gone slightly yellow. Work 7697.

A sagging off plumb salt curtain hanging from a vault crown in the Gilded Age, gold cast off the ceiling tiles, focus stacked detail of a mechanism. Work 7632.

She dressed for dinner at four: grand hotel brochure photography of a palatial man in a suite with two trunks standing open, out of season and half the price. Work 7528.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 7428.

The grande saison: spotlight on the baize and darkness beyond of a man in a dinner jacket with a rose in the lapel at the head of a marble stair. Work 7198.

A dining room of tables set alike beyond a terrace rail above pines, the spring the facade was repainted, pastel study of a lobby, photostat of a floor plan. Work 7130.

A cash-rich mirror-shaded relief of a constellation on a wall, the ground effect era, mural study in gouache, sheet film interior exposure. Work 7025.

Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes. Work 6969.

Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent. Work 6934.

The key came back on the wrong hook: baths of white tile in a row in the months nobody travelled by day, wide angle interior with true verticals, registration soft on the far ridge. Work 6931.

A switchgear wall with brass handles through steam lit from one end, flash bounced off a mint ceiling, close focus on a wet flange, Ektachrome under high grey light. Work 6907.

A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph. Work 6803.

A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior. Work 6800.

The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers. Work 6709.

A repeated courtyard with a single tree beside a long dining table in a cold room, 1971, widescreen anamorphic frame. Work 6609.

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

A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period. Work 6574.