The collection · DiffusionLab

A researcher at an index cabinet in a swamp at first light, tripod steady and dull, polaroid chemical streak, fog rolling off water. Work 6081.

Interiors photograph of an American tennis party in whites on the Mall at Shimla in the last season before the war. Work 6064.

A woman describing what she saw made of bait station of apples and corn in a cornfield after harvest, 1969, printed small in the county paper. Work 6060.

The model is in a store room somewhere: an empty plinth with a label in the summer of 1969, section in ink and hatching, edge fogged from the changing bag. Work 6047.

A gone blue guerrilla fighter, the Silk Road centuries, Kodalith Ortho 6556. Work 6046.

A horse in a field at dawn, the last year of the 1970s, club logo in chrome lettering, high contrast black and white. Work 6045.

A Scottish ghillie, the turn of the 1950s, oil on canvas board for a cover, tempera on panel. Work 6042.

A match struck in cupped hands on a bridge over the river in the last years of the war, woodcut print, deep focus at f16. Work 6039.

1950: carnival banner line painting of a helter skelter lit from below in the glow of a ride front. Work 6037.

A piadina, photograph of a photograph, she watched from behind the nets, Ilford SFX 200. Work 6034.

A doorman under a canopy under a strobe, the lift was mirrored. Work 6027.

A robot carrying a woman across a crater in a stable yard, the atomic age. Work 6026.

Hotel promotional folder of a tiki mug shaped as a moai in the long summer of 1977, heavy ink coverage on a blue sky. Work 6023.

A local water tower above the trees in 1966, headlights raking a field, developed at a drugstore lab. Work 6021.

A rocket pilot at a periscope and a glass dome over a model town in a planetarium dome, the year Sputnik went up, exhibition guide illustration. Work 6003.

A blazer with club colours, the Argentine Proceso, Georges Barbier style plate, varnish over printed tin. Work 5998.

The jazz age, a woman in a bias cut gown on a landing in a bus station forecourt, deep focus on a view camera, hard tropical sun and black shade. Work 5997.

A streamlined zigzag parapet against a flat sky in the summer of 1937, macro close up of a tin joint, four colour halftone on pulp paper. Work 5994.

Model release on file: a cowboy leaning on a corral rail in the doctor endorsement years, lifestyle advertising photograph, dye transfer print. Work 5992.

A telephone ringing in an empty flat and a queue at a counter, film still in black and white, rack focus between two faces. Work 5991.

An anthropologist examining a cast and a motel sign with a creature on it in a trailer park, 1995, sonar chart trace. Work 5983.

A hyphenated mother inspecting a hemline in 1948, corner spots on an album page, deckle edged print. Work 5966.

A photographic analyst at a light box in the style of a bronze plaque by a lay-by beyond a wire fence, 1954. Work 5962.

A balloon and dart stall at the Foire du Trone, the early 1950s. Work 5961.

Commuters on a platform in the rain, kodachrome, umbrellas, 1974. Work 5947.

A couple sheltering under a coat in a red bathing cap, the space race, patent illustration in line, salt haze. Work 5935.

Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light. Work 5919.

A butcher window hung with ducks in the shadow of a ziggurat in the winter of the second quarantine, colour film still with heavy grain, underexposed by one stop. Work 5914.

A barber leaning in his own doorway at a country club bar, ask the man who smokes them. Work 5907.

Large format survey photograph of a northern bald ibis on wet sand at low tide, Adox Silvermax 100, scratched negative printed as found. Work 5898.