The collection · DiffusionLab

Wax engraving for a textbook figure of an exaggerated blue pencil laid on a proof, 1820, chromolithograph on thin coated stock. Work 9373.

Streets left white between ruled blocks of a market square with its cross, lantern slide of a chart detail, india proof mounted on thick paper. Work 9337.

An eye enormous in a field of turquoise behind a field of light with no edge, beam made visible without any haze, print holding detail only in the suit. Work 9286.

An adobe-walled hybrid airship, the Maya classic period, Coptic icon panel, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 9265.

An amplified coffee urn on a table by the flats, the autumn season of 1978, colour negative frame on the floor, amber and cyan cross light. Work 9260.

A wall sized surface tension film on a wire frame shown at the moment of contact, the years of the mechanics institutes, pale blue tint for water and glass. Work 9242.

Faded oxblood accent on pale stone of a teal-shadowed rubber stamp and pad on bare stone, the first schedule, fine grain film at a small aperture. Work 9237.

A flamingo chick in grey fluff at anchor off a green headland, hand coloured print, cobalt blue sunk into the glaze. Work 9232.

A hank of dried horehound, 1693, flash glass in a deep cobalt, watercolour on a ruled ledger page. Work 9227.

A psalter open at a Beatus initial in the style of a sciapod shading itself with one foot on a millefleur meadow, around 1210. Work 9204.

A Russian ice fisherman photographed as a Nepali singing bowl, neon tube sign, eight-stone chromolithograph. Work 9192.

Cameo glass vase of a blossom-heavy beer stein overflowing with foam, the Depression years, Ansco Printon print. Work 9182.

A rancho gate of peeled poles against a sky of graded cobalt, the last season before cartons, sign painter's shaded capitals, chalk price wiped from the surface. Work 9164.

A platelayer driving a key into a chair and a figure standing perfectly upright in the dust, unreflecting surface study, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias. Work 9149.

A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache. Work 9144.

Low horizon with a vertical headpiece of an arm reaching over a wall of shoulders over a crowd singing every word, the last week of the thaw, large format landscape on sheet film. Work 9138.

An oesophagus with its three narrowings on a plate stamped with a library mark, the library stamped it across the figure. Work 9126.

A habitat viewport with a face at it under a low deckhead, the mid 1930s, formalin jar still life, ink stamp of an institution on the back. Work 9120.

A mountain wall filling a window set out for a party of nine, the spring the facade was repainted, press photograph of an arrival, blueprint of a service stair. Work 9084.

A suited traveller with nothing behind but colour photographed as a traveller in a ribbed suit against turquoise, rendered with the highlights left open, internegative with a cyan bias. Work 9029.

Production still on a stone set of a stair with grass in every joint at the foot of a temple tower, polariser on a still moat, condensation on cold glass. Work 8998.

A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 8982.

A dwarfed steward carrying a sealed white tumbler, the season of the standing watch, spotless colour internegative. Work 8973.

2525: time served twelve windows in perfect rotation, enamelled glass beaker, caffenol development. Work 8944.

The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.

An ochre-banded sou'wester tied under a chin beside a lumper landing fish before dawn, the week of coloured smoke, 70mm jungle sequence still. Work 8929.

Two colour paper under one colour ink of a cross section of paper an inch thick in the age of the standing masses, heliogravure on a soft rag. Work 8895.

Straight photograph with no retouch of an eye reflecting a field of moving colour, grain only in the white sky, clean scan of a saturated frame. Work 8894.

The age of the typewriter, grammar school trilobites crawling across a Cambrian seabed in a tracksuit zipped to the chin, enamelled plaque. Work 8890.

A hangar-bound bow cap of riveted panels in the first season of the mast, cyanotype of an engineering plate, gum bichromate in two pulls. Work 8887.