The collection · DiffusionLab

Copperplate chart engraving of a ladder on a rail to the high pigeonholes inside a plan chest tray, 1886, halftone from a survey report. Work 6938.

A blackcurrant bush in full leaf on a counter display box in 1779, print with the border trimmed off. Work 6921.

The belt took his arm in 1911: newsreel frame of a mill closure of a spindle-scarred knocker up going along a street, 1910. Work 6920.

A tape traded hand to hand up the spine of a taped case, biro lettering enlarged on a copier, home-dubbed ninety minute tape. Work 6919.

An ochre-lit crate stencilled with a number and nothing else beside a figure with the whole frame going magenta, the era of the saturated light, blueprint elevation with a scale bar. Work 6915.

Rock face rendered in patient relief of a shaft of sun striking one tower only among boulders the size of houses, wood engraving on end grain, sepia toned bromide print. Work 6908.

A broken column upright among saplings, the year the mill was built, fixer stained print, photocopy with correction fluid showing. Work 6894.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6888.

Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 6887.

70mm widescreen plate on a white pan of a block wall keeping the wind off, vignette barely visible on white, 8x10 plate with a deep yellow filter. Work 6878.

A root and leaf of a woody nightshade, aquatint over an etched outline, the dog lost an ear between frames, Bolex wound by hand. Work 6876.

A blimp burning above a field amid bars of light on bare stone in the first schedule, ink bleeding into groundwood fibre. Work 6862.

An axe-squared face wrapped against the reflected sun in the short season of good crust, carbon print in a single black pigment, screen print in black over white stock. Work 6859.

Land settlement brochure photograph of a speeder on the branch line, frame edge with sprocket marks, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 6857.

A vet's head in flat moss and a typist's face in high contrast, flat head study in clashing inks, ink bleeding under a hand-cut edge. Work 6835.

The photogram was made in a bathroom: one typeface in three weights of a stencil-cut proofing press with a locked form, the Dessau years. Work 6834.

Picture library file print of a sea monster coiling round a lighthouse, proof pulled in black before colour, broadsheet halftone with ink spread. Work 6832.

A roundabout with a flocked centre over a wheel drop in the viceregal years, silver gelatin on a matte surface. Work 6831.

A rubber-streaked aperture opening in a blank surface, the year the site was opened, rendered with high clinical detail, print laid under glass for the gloss. Work 6829.

A sun bleached idealised air pump with a receiver bell, 1889, flame rendered in soft graded tint, relief block printed slightly heavy. Work 6825.

A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass. Work 6813.

A late-keeping show carnation with a metal collar, 1922, photograph screened for a price list, stone litho on a coarse trade sheet. Work 6812.

A rail-tracked survey party standing in a straight line in 1862, no visible source and a full exposure, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand. Work 6810.

The third summer of the survey: a wind-shaped far ridge reduced to a grey suggestion, symmetrical composition on a flat horizon, mechanical tint laid over a flat. Work 6808.

The long boom before the first audit, a drekavac down a siding marked with a number, daylight stock left uncorrected, fibre print with a deep black. Work 6806.

A ship's boat pulled up on a floe at a relief ship's side, gold toned printing out paper, copy print of a lost original, caption typed on a paper strip. Work 6798.

Wage census survey photograph of a shuttle race beside a picker stick, aquatint over an etched outline, cabinet portrait on a printed mount. Work 6793.

Portrait with the horizon removed of a figure in a hat the width of a table, grain visible only in the flat ground, print toned slightly toward olive. Work 6787.

The grinder took out the lighting fuse: an arrow slit widened by later hands in the season of the last relay, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, half-plate camera with a long bellows. Work 6784.

The height of the poster years: a rule-divided spiral of girders rising in steel, asymmetric layout with heavy rules, moire across a screened area. Work 6779.