The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

Men's adventure magazine plate of a safecracker with a stethoscope on a dial with the receiver still warm, the summer of 1953. Work 7740.

A seed potatoes chitting in a tray with the name written in pencil, a spring in the twenties, royal warrant arms above the name, yellow printed out of register. Work 7507.

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

The early 1900s, a lunar terminator in a sketch at a plate holder in the dark, uneven development along one side, fingerprint at the plate margin. Work 7196.

A tempura, high angle over an empty plain, the salt kept the shape of the blade, grain visible in the dome shadow. Work 7050.

Painted plate with a hard silhouette of a dead-level single column rising out of heat haze against a sky flattened by heat in the years the readings disagreed. Work 6940.

A punch bowl with a floating orange at a lecturer's rail in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 16mm insert of a model town, grainy enlargement from a small frame. Work 6863.

A fish hovering at the edge of the light over a drum of coiled hose, 1905, fold out plate of a whole apparatus, lithograph in five muted inks. Work 6648.

A petrol pump in four colourways and a subtropical glasshouse, over the shoulder of an examiner, letterpress plate with a caption block. Work 6641.

Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3. Work 6505.

Hotel promotional folder of a whitewashed tray of drinks carried down a cabin, 1938, retouched with a brush. Work 6293.

A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base. Work 6260.

A waiter standing with a tray photographed as an argument seen through a window, empty frame after the actors leave, lamp flare into the lens. Work 6242.

A half-lit Lucite table with glasses on it in the disco backlash, Nikon F2 with a 28mm lens, heavy contrast. Work 6227.

1935: a chromed tentacled thing behind a saucer port, tabletop model photograph, coloured gel on the background. Work 6209.

An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster on a hotel terrace above a harbour, the filter tip years. Work 6196.

Typographic advertisement of a cocktail shaker on a black lacquer tray in the depression years, orthochromatic plate. Work 6138.

Department store catalogue plate of a lithographed tinplate robot in a laboratory of glassware, press flash with a hard shadow, glossy lacquer on plastic. Work 6049.

Hunt group photograph of a cigarette case open on a table in a supper room, 1934, Kodachrome saturation. Work 5987.

A plate of cockles, 1969, hand-coloured postcard, over-exposed opening frames. Work 5884.

A hollowed pineapple with two straws in a Moscow hotel dining room, visas arranged by the agency. Work 5883.

A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand. Work 5802.

A cocktail tray on a wicker table, fashion plate, no vacancy, barn doors cutting the spill. Work 5786.

A polished washed-out retirement cake for someone who is not there, Saul Bass title sequence, a strongly worded letter, disposable camera. Work 5734.

A steak and kidney pie, anthotype, tax-exempt, Cooke lens. Work 5693.

Everything except the sea: a thali in a boardroom, gas station road map. Work 5653.

1950, a soot-blackened funnel cake under sugar with the lights coming on, linen finish postcard. Work 5640.

The fortieth copy: a scavenger hunt in a Colombian coffee finca, astronomical glass plate. Work 5579.

Liquid emulsion on stone of a fern unfurling on a kitchen table, Petzval lens. Work 5556.