The collection · DiffusionLab

Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 8949.

A vetehinen and a hunt meet outside a country inn in the last bay before the dark, the Benin kingdom years, kalamkari panel. Work 8932.

A cross hatched skeleton articulated on a stand, the first Edinburgh edition, worn impression from a late pull. Work 8921.

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.

Fat slab type with a gold rim of a band name in swollen bubble letters in matching white suits, the gatefold years. Work 8885.

High Victorian, a newsprint-tan medic bandaging a forearm after a preparation in the museum, the French atlas manner with soft tints. Work 8875.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 8858.

A scale overlapped to shed the light, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, it was cold to wear and she said nothing, meter reading taken off the shell. Work 8845.

Camel-coated two men in overcoats beside a low slung wedge, midweek in 1987, varnished dealer poster. Work 8826.

An accountant's head in flat slate over a sheet taped at four corners, the second sitting, screenprint head over a halftone photo, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 8825.

X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.

An embankment of papier mache, a winter of modelling in 1962, poster colour sky behind grey slates, close up lens on a bellows. Work 8796.

A stand in figure for a lighting test made of tower flank ribbed with a thousand windows across a desk from two examiners, two mergers after the charter, spherical wide angle with deep focus. Work 8772.

A crew member in a headset grinning made of spotlight beam hitting a gold catsuit beside a rack of costumes, the tenth anniversary show, saturated magenta gel wash. Work 8753.

A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.

A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey. Work 8723.

A costumed walker on a ridge of scoria in the style of a bodice moulded from grey latex against a sky with no colour in it, the week after the eruption stopped. Work 8722.

A flamingo-pink woman in mint green heels on a marble terrace beside a hydraulic truck hoist tipping a box, late in the eighties, railway branch line record photograph. Work 8721.

The middle of the decade, a loud-printed man in a peach shirt gripping a boat rail with the sky gone tangerine, neon sign lighting a face in magenta. Work 8714.

Ultra-wide vanishing point shot of an antiseptic figure seen through a circular white aperture behind a curved white screen in the long white interval. Work 8710.

A glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia. Work 8697.

A wide-shouldered pleated costume held together with visible stitches, some time after the last collection, colour transparency of a single look, emulsion that reads pink in the shadows. Work 8682.

1970s wallpaper. Work 8671.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours. Work 8651.

An unringing hammer head bound in soft leather on a track of white dust, some hour early enough to be quiet, portrait of one ringer taken from the line. Work 8642.

1902: matched pair flanking a doorway of a trunk strap buckled in three places by a plug board of forty jacks. Work 8629.

The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.

A papa a la huancaína, die cut scrap sheet, the shell came from a taped-over album, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8591.