The collection · DiffusionLab

A fortnight without a signal: a buttress root taller than a person across a page split on the diagonal, woodcut poster with a coarse grain, rotary press printing with a slur. Work 9553.

Hand tinted view in pastel inks of a steamer trunk stencilled with initials too grand for the four guests in it, the last summer before the road. Work 9549.

A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A doorway cut into the side of a dune, the second era of the rigs, frame built on one long diagonal, 8x10 negative on a heavy tripod. Work 9536.

A cable car summit station in the lobby by the jukebox in the spring of 1954, D-76 at 1 to 1. Work 9532.

1928, an oil-smelling cooling fan behind a projector base under a dome of perforated panels, archival copy of a show still. Work 9530.

An austere lectern bolted to a concrete floor in the years of the works, tritone with a brass highlight, rust tone in the midtones. Work 9520.

Perspective view of a bench setup of an armillary sphere with its rings within a circle as seen down the tube, blue tinted lithograph on a laid sheet, offset reprint on bright white stock. Work 9514.

A pipe cleaner soldier in a scarlet coat behind a proscenium of painted hardboard in the week of the village pageant, vision mixer cut between two cameras. Work 9461.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

A records office with wall-high files in a lit vestibule for gowning in the era of the issued childhood, blind shadow across a steel table, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor. Work 9436.

Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.

A telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground. Work 9427.

Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.

A half asleep pahoehoe at the centre of an empty map room, the Cuban Revolution years, humanist street photography frame. Work 9416.

Grease pencil marked contact sheet frame of a repetitive sun rising over a sea of fog across a hotel ledger in the year the telephone exchange opened. Work 9413.

A wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.

New Year 1972, a coal hole cover in a doorway with a slatted mat, Kodachrome in a paper mount, glossy print with a white border. Work 9389.

General arrangement elevation of a speaker stack strapped to a tower and a stage struck back to bare tube, the year the frame was bought used, offset litho in black and silver. Work 9361.

Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9339.

A wash stand with a matched jug and bowl and a mounted ibex head over a fireplace, two colour litho in pink and mint, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9336.

Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9335.

A brass turnstile at a hall entrance round a mahogany column of brass rings in 1824, frontal cabinet elevation, silver gelatin print on matt paper. Work 9331.

A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze. Work 9329.

Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975. Work 9324.

1914: optical shop record photograph of a chronograph drum with a pen on it in a dormitory corridor. Work 9311.

Deadpan interior portrait of a brass-plated figure standing inside a ring of white tubes beside a corral rail in the third rotation season. Work 9296.

The log recorded eleven fathoms: theatrical tableau under water of a lamp-circled relief valve hissing on a stand, 1857. Work 9268.

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.