The collection · DiffusionLab

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

A tree just beginning to go over and caulk soles biting into a log, panoramic view camera photograph, duotone plate in brown and black. Work 9191.

A sun image thrown onto a table, a cut-price reprint, tint-built illustration on cheap stock, water mark up one corner. Work 9190.

A two structures set in exact line past a line of broken pillars, large format chrome in bright sun, 65mm negative with a clean gate, oil on linen with a thin ground. Work 9189.

Printed on India paper and mounted of heavily inked layers of the retina magnified on a folding plate bound at the spine in 1814. Work 9188.

The year the canal opened: a thorn hedge around a sleeping castle over standing water with an oil film, Neues Sehen oblique study, dye-coupled colour negative. Work 9187.

A proof marked up with a caret in the wash of a passing headlamp, the sign had spelled another name once. Work 9186.

Studied scale contrast of a figure crossing a threshold of pure white along a corridor with no shadow in it, glossy resin coated print, large negative with almost no grain. Work 9185.

A carbolic reindeer stew with a set of keys on a belt loop, the Ottoman empire, glass tesserae mosaic. Work 9184.

Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9183.

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

The age of the great crossings, a core tube laid out on a canvas sheet near a wreck stripped to the frame, large plate with a dusty emulsion, sheet film exposed at f22. Work 9181.

The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print. Work 9180.

The carriage smelled of oil and varnish: a footpath of steps climbing beside the track in the winter timetable, souvenir view of a mountain railway, hand tinted photograph in pale washes. Work 9179.

A man in a striped shirt on two handsets at once, stereo pair survey photograph, the record was left in the sun, contre jour. Work 9178.

A number-drunk woman in a pinstripe skirt suit on a ladder in the age of the unmeasured distance, wide gauge frame with a smooth gradient, dot matrix printout on fanfold paper. Work 9177.

A pillars broken off at the same height, vanishing point held on a straight edge, the surface was cold in full sun, one stop under to keep the black. Work 9176.

The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure. Work 9175.

The second printing: tabloid strip panel in two inks of a dial face with a single needle against a solid process blue field. Work 9174.

Copper light on dark glass of a scale figure beside a tower elevation with skis planted upright behind, the years the companies held the sky. Work 9173.

A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace. Work 9172.

1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9171.

1970s country club building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9170.

A block with a chisel mark still in it above a sea of treetops, the season the forest came back. Work 9169.

The year the floodlights were installed: a figure halfway down an excavation wall above a cordon nobody crosses, hard raking light across raked dust, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 9168.

A goaf behind the advancing face in a heading behind brattice cloth in the last year of hand hewing, industrial archaeology survey frame, drypoint with a heavy burr. Work 9167.

Record illustration of a ruined interior of an open sky reflected in an inner court over a ratchet strap pulled tight, print made cool in the deep shadow, 16mm negative with a scratch. Work 9166.

Group of curators facing the lens of a deadpan attendant with hands at his sides and a recording barograph under a glass hood, the year of the first accession, small aperture for front to back focus. Work 9165.

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.

Brochure studio photograph of a man in a sheepskin coat by a gold turbo hatch in September 1984, duotone in black and silver. Work 9163.