The collection · DiffusionLab

Bruce Davidson style photograph of an underlit amusement pier at night, the first week of October, blurred ride in a slow exposure. Work 6311.

Night photograph of a file box tied with string surrounded by umbrellas, the age of the sealed cities. Work 6261.

The year Sputnik went up, a planetarium dome at showtime inside a domed city, lit from below like a stage, overexposed sky behind a fin. Work 6252.

A placemat against a seafront railing, submersible floodlight photograph, light struck frame. Work 6233.

A wind moving a curtain on an unmade road in the late 1960s, streetlight on wet stone. Work 6191.

Poster in Bifur capitals of a Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor beside a ship model in a vitrine, night exposure with wet pavement, three colour process printing. Work 6189.

Postwar reconstruction photograph of a circus building with a ribbed dome, bracketed exposure for the interior, dusk exposure with the lights on. Work 6179.

A depth charge, the Rome Olympics year, Paubha painting, existing light. Work 6176.

A marquee with three tiers of bulbs, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, the cinema is a furniture shop now, low key studio lighting. Work 6172.

A neon-lit ballroom entrance on the pier, the summer of 1980, television variety show still, bare bulb flash head. Work 6139.

A neon lit Bund tower with a stepped copper roof under a fan of bulbs, the year the liner was launched, the glass came from a factory that closed, poster in Bifur capitals. Work 6132.

A dripping gutter running with neon colour in the years of the long rain, practical neon as the only source, telephoto compression down a street. Work 6131.

A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 6020.

Airbrushed rendering on board of a ventilation shaft in the pavement in 1951, neutral density for a long exposure. Work 5993.

A painted rounding board with the panels off, 1952, Daniel Meadows style photograph, long exposure at night. Work 5969.

Scrollwork panel painting of a pier deck full of rides under a black sky, bulb flare in the frame, rain on the lens. Work 5951.

Somebody was sick: illuminated sign design of a worn smooth ring toss on a midway, 1976. Work 5933.

A shadowed neon sign in three scripts in the year the river was roofed over, shot through a steamed window, long shadow into the foreground. Work 5920.

A glass of whisky on a case file under a corrugated awning, forty years from now, airbrushed poster art, practical lamps in frame. Work 5916.

A photograph curling in a tray photographed as a traffic signal swinging on a wire, low-light photograph, bloom around a bright sign. Work 5893.

A moth around a pool light in the style of a man running under a street lamp on a terrazzo pool deck, the first winter after the war. Work 5849.

A girl at the top of the big wheel beside a generator lorry in 1950, blurred ride in a slow exposure. Work 5847.

A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner. Work 5846.

A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame. Work 5838.

A blackmailed coroner table under a lamp on a fire escape in the rain, 1949, street photograph. Work 5801.

A future that kept its old machines: a transformer humming on a pole in an office with frosted glass, tungsten-balanced photograph, HMI through a rain bar. Work 5757.

A racing travertine terrace that weighs a ton, polaroid transfer, sodium streetlight. Work 5743.

A searchlight on a tower crown made of liner's promenade deck at night in Churchgate, the year the liner was launched, silver gelatin print. Work 5716.

A cable stay fanning from a pylon beside a mosaic gable, 1976, coloured pencil rendering on tracing, blue hour with the lights coming on. Work 5684.

A moroccan lunar crater made of sugar glass, rococo fete galante, wildfire smoke light. Work 5676.