The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

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.

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.

Shoebox of loose prints of a boilermaker and a domestic science room with six cookers, the era of the Model T, ring flash catchlight. Work 9600.

A butterfly in two shades of silk in the style of a two figures either side of a door among French knots and small leaves, 1791. Work 9583.

Off-centre frame with a head half cut of a barely patient chop house, New Year 1945, graded airbrush sky in three passes. Work 9542.

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 over-scaled late sun striking one column only in the years the boats came inside, grain left visible on the water plane, lithograph with a cold tint plate. Work 9518.

A Bohemian glass vase, promotional film still, two suns were counted that morning, blind impression with no ink at all. Work 9472.

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.

Ornamental border struck from brass rule of a cold frame propped open with a brick in 1907, tint block printing short at one edge. Work 9432.

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.

Grease pencil marked contact sheet frame of a repetitive sun rising over a sea of fog across a hotel ledger in the year the telephone exchange opened. Work 9413.

1914: optical shop record photograph of a chronograph drum with a pen on it in a dormitory corridor. Work 9311.

Poster print pulled in one afternoon of a stone temple tower above the canopy in one year after the road closed, faded top sheet from a sunny window. Work 9264.

A personnel queue on the mezzanine made of medical bay on the eightieth floor over the traffic lanes, the season of the compulsory transfer, architectural camera with shift movement. Work 9231.

A window wall of panes in matched frames and a pair of sconces either side of a door, figure backlit in a doorway of light, lantern slide bound in tape. Work 9205.

The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 9157.

Deep perspective down a bay of a wage office window at the gate in the summer of the big heat, reversal film with blocked highlights. Work 9142.

A pole-wrapped stapled-over plywood hoarding with a torn poster, the year of the tear-off strip, peeling paper rendered in hard shadow, black ink on canary poster paper. Work 9132.

Around 1470: a leaded panel of fruit in a leaded surround, Swiss armorial panel in enamels, flashed glass eaten back with acid. Work 9128.

It was centred by measuring from both walls: a crank turned by a gloved hand in the year the gallery was added, tinted lantern slide of an interior, two colour litho in mint and ochre. Work 9111.

Textile pattern of gears and rules of a lattice-built window grid of a factory wall under a sawtooth roof in the 1925 exposition year. Work 9071.

A trefoil leaf of a wood sorrel against a pane of window glass in the 1840s, dissection worked at twice the scale, gouache on blue-grey paper. Work 9070.

Engineering sectional elevation of a silk reeling basin with a filament and a piece of grey cloth on a perch, 1910, 120 roll film square frame. Work 9050.

Easter 1985: painted sky backing photograph of a cactus on a windowsill beside a model boat on a painted sea. Work 9018.

The summer the dome was repainted, a porter carrying one small brass sphere at a window of twelve identical panes, colour negative printed cool and dusty, grain visible in a deep shadow. Work 9015.

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

A laundry chute mouth in a service wall seen from the tower foot, well into the age of the private city, graphic dark mass against bright sky, large format transparency of a model. Work 8985.