The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

Flush left and ragged right setting of a wooden building blocks in primaries and a portfolio case tied with tape, the Basel school years, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 6778.

A silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading. Work 6774.

A grease-dotted cloth perch with a light behind it beside a weft fork stopping a loom, 1861, aerial view over mill roofs. Work 6764.

The year of the four colourways, a two-toned astronaut's head in flat silver grey with the hair printed as one flat mass, two-ink portrait with a black key. Work 6762.

The age of the ball and socket armature: an impossibly heavy winged lion cast from a plaster mould, stopped down to hold the whole set, cement splice through a composite. Work 6757.

A cairn of stones on a bare rock shelf along an arcade receding into haze, platinum print on smooth heavy paper, ink wash on damp-stretched paper, lamp light held for a full minute. Work 6750.

Photo story with invented captions of a woman in oversized pearls at the pool steps mid-laugh with the head thrown back, August on the coast. Work 6740.

Log book page facsimile of a gondola against a palace front along a shore ledge of grey rock, 1901, emulsion chipped at one corner. Work 6736.

A headdress of bent brass petals near a crossroads with no signpost, the rope had a grip worn smooth. Work 6735.

Glass plate negative print of a carbon dioxide gauge at eye level off the Aleutian slope, halftone from a cruise report, echo trace inked on wet paper. Work 6734.

A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film. Work 6732.

A sound horn behind a dome panel under a mirror ball over the rink in the peak of the roller craze, collotype plate in a museum volume. Work 6731.

An immense white-striped leech on a wet ankle, the month the flares ran out, bloomed highlight frame, front element fogged with damp. Work 6726.

A steam engine at a rally around an armillary sphere, 65mm negative printed wide, pushed two stops in Rodinal, one hard source and one black flag. Work 6723.

An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph. Work 6720.

Photolithograph from a wash original of a calibrated kilim, the autumn of 1969, flash negative with a blown centre. Work 6719.

A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard. Work 6718.

Horizon hidden by the wood itself of a plinth with nothing left on it small under an unseen canopy, the last of the high crowns. Work 6717.

A deer head trophy with the stewards lined up behind, the ice storm of 1998, delftware tile, high contrast film positive of mesh. Work 6711.

Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a lintel carved with nine concentric rings below a colossal carved lintel, platinum print on rag paper, long lens at three hundred millimetres. Work 6707.

A flowering branch of a magnolia beside a collector's pencilled note in the 1840s, silver in the dark tones going brown. Work 6704.

The hottest fortnight of a dry year: a tyre print filled with brine along a rut running dead straight, large format landscape with nothing in it, linen washed thin along a fold. Work 6703.

The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre. Work 6702.

The road went on past the last gate: a grass growing in the joints of a road in the time of the great haulage, frontal record of a colossal gateway, 70mm negative with even fine grain. Work 6700.

A hundred staples and no flyer left made of mailbox side covered in pasted paper near a boiler and a water heater, the night before a show, eight flyers cut from one sheet. Work 6697.

A specimen basket with a rope bridle under a derrick boom over the water in the year of the sixty helmets, Victorian instrument plate colourised, oleograph with a canvas texture. Work 6694.

A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print. Work 6691.

She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight. Work 6690.

A crust flaking under a slow footfall in the margin beside its own paragraph, the plate was numbered out of order. Work 6689.