The collection · DiffusionLab

A weed-grown silt-hazed pump handles worked in opposite time, the summer of the stone survey, scale of a figure against cut stone, aquatint with a dark ground. Work 7108.

Resort brochure colour photograph of a gong with a hammer resting against it handed over a table at the door, the mid 1850s. Work 7095.

A grease-slick nerve fibre sheath magnified in 1875, platinum print with a matte surface, wet plate negative printed by contact. Work 7094.

A rocket-powered code clerk at a teleprinter, a giant sized special, splash page panel art, a register mark left inside the trim. Work 7090.

A perfumed woman in a tailored waistcoat holding two flutes beside a couple wrapped in a white quilt on black hide, the last good quarter, poster illustration in hot enamel colour. Work 7087.

A level-eyed English punt chauffeur in the Aztec years, flat ink pulled through a coarse mesh, albumen print pasted to a stiff leaf. Work 7085.

The height of the poster years: a grease-marked loudspeaker horn against a circle, close crop on a machine part, rubber stamp ink smudged. Work 7077.

An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze. Work 7074.

A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.

Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency. Work 7067.

A suited figure beside a tank taller than a hall, the second generation of gantries, wood engraving in a weekly paper, heavy-black chromogenic print. Work 7065.

A traveller in an impossible moulded silhouette along a seam where two colours meet in the third crossing season, separation master with three flat hues. Work 7057.

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

Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920. Work 7048.

The Weimar cinema years, shipyard slipways along a river under a portrait in a heavy frame, Impossible Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7042.

A column strung out over a mile below a crest smoking in the wind, the season the wells all held. Work 7027.

A dark with pitch geared logging locomotive on a trestle, the turn of the century, saw filing instruction figure, scraperboard white line work. Work 7024.

The post-apartheid years: a blind-stamped flooded court with a fountain rim awash, banded early flatbed scan, slight halation around the lit edge. Work 7023.

A shouting tape over a broken window pane in two weeks before the hall closed, photograph creased across a corner, print made in a bathroom darkroom. Work 7019.

The open outcry years: publicity still from a gambling film of a man in a dinner suit betting with a pen in hand at a table with the shoe in its box. Work 7016.

Architectural photograph with a shift lens of a woman in a gold belt on a black lacquer table in winter 1983, grain enlarged from a small frame. Work 7015.

Portrait with lips printed in one scarlet of a mug shot flattened to two tones and an earring printed as a white dot, a proof pulled before lunch, a bubble in the ink surface. Work 7013.

Fontanelles of the newborn head and a corpus callosum from within, steel plate work with ruled backgrounds, thick paper with a deckle edge left uncut. Work 6994.

An unshaded line-abreast salt pyramid taller than a rider, the years measured in blocks lifted, value study with almost no mid tone, scratch crossing a blank area. Work 6979.

Folding screen composition of a silk reeler at a spinning wheel and a warrior wrestling a giant carp, 1865, keyblock outline in sumi ink. Work 6977.

Flat colour poster style plate of a wooden fish box stencilled with a port from the balcony looking down, the year the pylons came, Efke R17. Work 6976.

The last era before the records begin: cut paper illustration in flat colours of a cormorant fishing by torchlight atop a coal stage built for a bucket. Work 6966.

A tailor working a treadle machine below a vertical stack of signage, cucoloris shadow over the crowd, halation around every tube sign, 70mm night exterior. Work 6960.

Human scale against an enormous flywheel of a bulged panel bowing out of true, box camera negative, tungsten balance in a marble hall. Work 6953.

A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963. Work 6951.