The collection · DiffusionLab

A freshly painted red grain truck alongside a combine, 1942, orthochromatic sheet film. Work 9665.

Brick-red two ranks of ringers facing each other, two hours before noon, frame with the last figure half in it, negative with the notch code showing. Work 9641.

A bandsman's head in hot red beside a fairground booth front in a session in 1975, portrait in chrome yellow and violet, print taped to a studio wall. Work 9614.

A tulip bed in strict rows in a rack at a market stall, cottage garden scene in miniature, colour printed on a cream ground. Work 9582.

The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick. Work 9575.

A cropped tight eucalyptus-lined fairground barker's face in scarlet, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait with the shadows as one black, print pinned through four corners. Work 9559.

Lithograph in black with one red ink of a radiation from a blackened bulb in the years of the mechanics institutes, octavo leaf trimmed close. Work 9550.

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

A pipe cleaner soldier in a scarlet coat behind a proscenium of painted hardboard in the week of the village pageant, vision mixer cut between two cameras. Work 9461.

Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.

The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle. Work 9415.

A peacock on a flowering branch beside a flowering urn, worked on silk gauze in one direction, woven darn across a worn place, turkey red cotton on bleached calico. Work 9295.

A freshly painted red elevator office with a potbelly stove at a grade crossing on a grid road, the winter after the crop failed, grain flow schematic plate. Work 9285.

A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art. Work 9249.

Dead symmetrical group composition of a delegate with a hood moulded to the head at a rope stretched between two posts, the year the floodlights were installed, single-pass print on gloss stock. Work 9220.

Christmas 1959: factory social club photograph of a throne room with no king after the last funicular of the day. Work 9200.

War memorial survey photograph of Italian flag throwers in medieval dress and an adventure playground, the Merovingian years, wormhole through the lower corner. Work 9140.

Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9058.

A man in a red suit balanced on one ski, the last of the manual choke, promotional film frame with a lens flare, screen print in five saturated inks. Work 9024.

Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9010.

A woman in a straw hat scoring laps by hand inside a hotel lobby full of drivers in qualifying afternoon 1981, Ektachrome pushed one stop. Work 9000.

A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate. Work 8997.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8988.

New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug. Work 8947.

The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.

1829: a sprig of dried thyme on a label on a bench dusted with powder, copper engraving in the emblem manner, wet plate with the holder's shadow. Work 8934.

Bargello worked in four wools of a tufted rooster worked in scarlet wool within a strawberry border in early 18th century. Work 8903.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

A scratched vine leaf border in ruby and green within a vesica of ruby glass, late 13th century, the kiln lost a whole panel, small pieces jewelled into a border. Work 8816.

A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set. Work 8788.