The collection · DiffusionLab

The original print was never returned: a watchtower of scaffold pipe in the decade the roads went quiet, polaroid taken as proof, motion blur at a slow shutter. Work 6629.

A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball. Work 6627.

An empty motel pool at dusk, colour negative print, nobody remembers the name, Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110. Work 6624.

A food mixer under a stucco archway, a pound for the whole box. Work 6622.

A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph. Work 6621.

Watercolour of a country house of a society photographer with a Rolleiflex on a hotel terrace above the sea, the early 1930s, deckle edged print. Work 6619.

Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object. Work 6617.

A tapering hospital ward block with balconies beside a multi storey car park facade, the late 1960s, infrared architectural photograph. Work 6614.

The first winter after the war, a slick-haired binoculars at a dark window lit only by a hotel sign, large format photograph. Work 6611.

A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate. Work 6610.

A repeated courtyard with a single tree beside a long dining table in a cold room, 1971, widescreen anamorphic frame. Work 6609.

Sponsor billboard at the top of a show of a girl reaching for the cereal box under a parabolic antenna, the early 1940s, two inch quadruplex tape artefacts. Work 6608.

A caged balcony stacked with crates and a light well with dripping pipes on a wet street at street level, the second century of the smog, studio model photograph. Work 6606.

The late 1920s, a race meeting enclosure at Cowes, mounted on grey board, platinum print warmth. Work 6604.

A temple gate at the top of steps, diazo print, the competition was won and shelved, sun flare across the lens. Work 6599.

A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source. Work 6594.

A reflected ceiling plan in a tropical courtyard, it was listed the week before demolition. Work 6592.

An upswept model city of the World of Tomorrow in a crater of grey dust, the year Sputnik went up, the sign was sold to a collector, advertising illustration from a magazine. Work 6589.

A backlit chrome-trimmed animated billboard on a tower wall, the late twenty-first century, perspective rendering in gouache, low-key lighting at a high ratio. Work 6586.

Perspective corrected photograph of a cooling tower's hyperboloid throat and a construction hoarding with a rendering, 1928, 35mm black and white negative. Work 6582.

A tinplate lunch box with a rocket beside a glowing reactor port, the late 1930s, neon sign photography, sodium light over a parking lot. Work 6580.

A rotunda at Nottingham Goose Fair, the year the lido closed. Work 6576.

A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period. Work 6574.

1951, an unlisted parking deck with a slotted parapet with shuttering lines across the face, travel sketch in a notebook. Work 6573.

The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953. Work 6572.

A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display. Work 6571.

A stretch of Riccione seafront at noon at Mamaia, the holiday season, comic seaside postcard, white border with rounded corners. Work 6570.

A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount. Work 6569.

A brass railed skyscraper crown lit from below, the year the liner was launched, lacquer on a gessoed panel. Work 6568.

The year before demolition, a board marked concrete wall along an access deck, dust and scratches from the archive, rise on the front standard. Work 6565.