The collection · DiffusionLab

A Bund tower with a stepped copper roof made of funnel raked back against the sky on a chevron tiled floor, the winter of 1933, deep focus on a view camera. Work 10243.

A cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate. Work 10242.

A flower decked hotel with a swim up bar in a courtyard with a fountain, the first jumbo season, flights from regional airports, airline poster in gouache. Work 10241.

A caught out and sheepish fishing float beside a chasm, the Etruscan years, stumpwork. Work 10240.

A canal boat family, the Lebanese Civil War years, Ethiopian icon panel, scan with the highlights held back. Work 10239.

Aerial plate above a cloud deck of a glass-walled security officer watching forty screens, deep in the century of the pyramid, top light with deep floor shadow. Work 10238.

An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame. Work 10237.

Two man saw up welded mesh steps, video frame off a tube with banding, slit-scan optical printer pass, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 10236.

A griffin guarding a text block by a lectern in choir in late 11th century, lapis lazuli and vermilion flats, oak gall ink on ruled vellum. Work 10235.

The early 1940s: bold neon letters on a pylon sign at the foot of a finned rocket, oil on canvas board for a cover, hard flash on chrome. Work 10234.

Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water. Work 10233.

A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 10232.

A courier riding a straight road at dawn, the long flood age, monumental emptiness on a paved road, orthochromatic plate with a deep filter. Work 10231.

Tournament programme colour plate of a lemon-yellow man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, the first week of the club season, polarising filter on a deep blue sky. Work 10230.

A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion. Work 10229.

A smoke-stained tower yard of packed earth and stone, the years the road was widened, heroic scale study with a human for measure, negative varnished after fixing. Work 10228.

Dissection worked at twice the scale of a naturalised corm and flower of a saffron crocus on a background left entirely blank in 1877. Work 10227.

A wind-swollen knot being pulled down onto a frame beside a load stacked head high, forty days out from the last market, the wind combed the flank flat again, matte painting with a live column in it. Work 10226.

A man slumped over a steering wheel and a hitchhiker in heels beside a coupe on a roadhouse dance floor, a wet March in 1951, flat colour poster style plate. Work 10225.

A launch gantry with a swing arm at a service station forecourt, the space race, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, coloured gel on the background. Work 10224.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 10223.

Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.

A moulding plane photographed as a Viking ship burial, Bayeux stitch embroidery, gum tempera on prepared parchment. Work 10221.

Panned photograph of a car at speed of a mechanic carrying a starter motor and a drink, five colour press sheet, dye retouching in the harbour blue. Work 10220.

A glassy footlit brown long-eared bat, the new town years, duotone print, transparency cropped hard for a spread. Work 10219.

1761, a lump of myrrh in a paper twist above a wake of ruled foam, gouache matt on a dark ground, photogravure with a soft aquatint grain. Work 10218.

Scherenschnitte papercut of a fruiting black woodpecker across a harbour mouth in a gale in the mid 1850s. Work 10217.

An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted. Work 10216.

Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog. Work 10215.

A marble square worn hollow at a doorway too grand for the four guests in it, the last full season, haze filled lobby held perfectly level, chromolitho in pink mint and ochre. Work 10214.