The collection · DiffusionLab

Nobody came up the road for a week: sky atlas sheet of a cloudless truck hauling a mirror up a grade, 1922. Work 6682.

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.

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

A cockpit of toggle switches, 1941, educational film still, bare bulb key light. Work 6616.

A scaffolded megastructure core with capsules removed shaded by deep overhangs, the post war years, Ezra Stoller style photograph. Work 6556.

A chlorine-bleached station wagon with the tailgate down beside a can of Tab sweating on concrete, 1968, amateur colour photograph. Work 6517.

Small town newspaper photograph of a hump in the water offshore on a two lane highway at night, 1995, print made on grade 4 paper. Work 6488.

A stripped-down pursuit sedan with an exposed blower in the flare of a burning stack, the years after the water ran out, last water for two hundred miles, high-contrast colour photograph. Work 6470.

An orange and brown long black, the summer of 1913, 828 Bantam format. Work 6458.

A family car packed for a holiday, kodachrome, driveway, 1968. Work 6447.

A roll of caps in a windmill, the spring of 1954, Ordnance Survey field record photograph, an umbrella to the left. Work 6421.

A checkpoint of stacked wrecks under a bone-white sky, the last stretch of the old century. Work 6377.

Toy box lid illustration of a tailfin on a building parapet in the late 1940s, sodium light over a parking lot. Work 6355.

A convoy strung out across a pan in the shade of a tanker trailer in the age of the welded machine, telephoto compression of a convoy. Work 6348.

1941: a camera pointed at an empty room over a model highway city, model shot with wires, taped to the wall with masking tape. Work 6339.

An oil-streaked speedometer cracked in its housing, the end of the age of engines, veiling flare across the frame. Work 6323.

A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind. Work 6317.

Open all night: tonal value study of a nervy squad car at the kerb, 1956. Work 6303.

1953, a photostatted service station with a folded plate roof repeated eleven times, department store catalogue plate. Work 6281.

A Rolls-Royce on gravel on a private beach, 1934, press photograph of a ball, background painted out. Work 6200.

Travel film frame in sixteen millimetre of a lei placed over a traveller's neck in the late 1960s, Nikon F with a fifty millimetre lens. Work 6185.

A ribbed vault of precast units on a car park roof in the year before demolition, scanned from a faded transparency. Work 6171.

A deck accessed dodgem with the pole sparking at the Newcastle Hoppings, the year before demolition, documentary photograph. Work 6154.

A lithographed monorail gliding over a plaza in the early 1940s, Agfacolor stock, black background with a rim light. Work 6107.

A steam grate breathing into the street under scaffolding left up for years in some November a long way from now, strong edge light in rain. Work 6070.

The lieutenant wants you downtown: architectural section of a comfortably off alexandrite, the Mexican Miracle. Work 6040.

A net curtained dry lake bed with sailing stones with a road atlas on the bonnet, the year the fridge arrived, oblique aerial photograph. Work 6038.

A thin shell concrete roof and a subway station with a vaulted hall under a bridge deck, the reconstruction years, measured elevation in ink. Work 6024.

Optical composite frame of a hotel desk with a bell and a pigeon roosting in a vent, the last decade before the exodus, telephoto compression down a street. Work 5999.

A departure lounge with one seat taken, wide angle, cold light. Work 5970.