The collection · DiffusionLab

A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body. Work 8763.

A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.

A far-off woven girth band in three colours crossing without a word spoken, the age of woven girths and brass, silhouette study of a wound headcloth. Work 8739.

A wide-shouldered pleated costume held together with visible stitches, some time after the last collection, colour transparency of a single look, emulsion that reads pink in the shadows. Work 8682.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours. Work 8651.

Study of felt and metal together of a robe dyed the red of old brick in the week the fog stayed down, square frame with the line low in it. Work 8598.

A renaissance portrait of a stag as a general, oil on panel, armour. Work 8572.

A renaissance portrait of a swan as a bride, oil on canvas, pearls. Work 8545.

A tuyul, the closing years of the 1980s, department store studio portrait, chromolithograph in six colours. Work 8519.

Photograph made in one afternoon of a figure attended by two dressers in grey and a garment with its seams left on the outside, the second week of a fitting, 6x6 square frame with the figure centred. Work 8517.

A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.

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.

A frontman in a cape opening it wide, newsreel frame of a mill closure, the proof came back gold and stayed gold, two heads at forty five degrees. Work 8419.

Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.

A figure in a helmet of blown opal glass against a wall painted oil green, a period measured in exposures, fashion photograph with no motion at all, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 8362.

Advertising still for a resort leaflet of a woman in a lemon dress leaning on a pink wall and a woman in a pink visor serving at a net, the season of the open hull. Work 8313.

A figure in a hood of woven horsehair and two figures in matching sculptural gowns, colour study of texture and volume, green held true through the whole frame. Work 8270.

A vine-crowned succotash toward a flyer pasted upside down, the space age fashion years, only the initials, silk shading embroidery. Work 8267.

A correction lifted out with tweezers photographed as a figure in a gown ribbed like a seed capsule, typographic specimen spread, handbill on thin newsprint. Work 8256.

The Whitlam years, a glossy-lipped woman in a gown walking off mid-shoe with a compass rose in the bay, centred wide angle on a tripod. Work 8076.

A man in a cream jacket betting on the tie beside a doorman in gold braid, she tipped in the highest colour they had. Work 8048.

A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing. Work 7990.

The long blue part of the evening: flat lit study against deep black of a costume stitched from packaging film at the centre of a black cyclorama. Work 7980.

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

Skin patch samples under a lamp and a transparent poncho over a work suit alongside a cart heaped with greens, the first decade of the night economy, high budget genre film frame. Work 7884.

Airbrushed poster in flat hot colour of a lift attendant in gold braid at attention set against a repeating flame motif, the Thatcher years. Work 7872.

A bone white branch planted upright in sand, costume study of a wind filled garment, the robe was the only thing that moved, anamorphic negative with a flared edge. Work 7782.

Folio plate coloured by hand of a migrant sawmill cutting props to length, 1854, engraving on India paper laid down. Work 7765.

Silhouette vignette with a thin rule of a halogen-lit man in a tailcoat serving from a silver dome, early eighties, flash fall-off into deep black. Work 7726.

A waitress in gold shorts holding a tray high and a streamers caught in a mirror ball, film still from a dance picture, hot specular hits on sequins. Work 7674.