The collection · DiffusionLab

It was centred by measuring from both walls: a crank turned by a gloved hand in the year the gallery was added, tinted lantern slide of an interior, two colour litho in mint and ochre. Work 9111.

1970s country club building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9092.

Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9077.

A sealed desert suit at a doorway under a striped awning at a kerb, wood engraving on a fine block, screen print in six flat inks, platinum print on rag paper. Work 9075.

The first year of the car phone, a man in a tailored coat holding two sets of keys beside a barrier at a members gate, silkscreen on mirror board, six by seven chrome on a light box. Work 9064.

Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9051.

Magenta and cyan split lighting of a steam-veiled dancer on a lit platform behind glass, late in the age of the lit awning, handheld at a wide aperture. Work 9036.

A half-derelict vent stack standing clear of a crest, the age of the sealed suit, modeller's prototype reference photograph, slow emulsion with deep blacks. Work 9009.

A cook stirring a cauldron and a physician holding up a flask in the bas de page, the Carolingian period, double column layout with a miniature. Work 9001.

Opening night press photograph of a padded door with a small window and a zodiac inlay underfoot, 1937, filmstrip frame with sprocket edges. Work 8977.

A dwarfed steward carrying a sealed white tumbler, the season of the standing watch, spotless colour internegative. Work 8973.

A granite-faced wheel rut cut a hand deep into stone, the time when the figures had faces, frontal record of a colossal gateway, halation glowing at the gate opening. Work 8967.

Confessional diary photograph of a kurent, streetlight through a rainy window, half plate negative held level. Work 8962.

A wind-raked rock-cut gallery running the length of a block, the second building programme, chiaroscuro on a blank wall, shadow placed on the second zone. Work 8948.

A roof beams burned through and fallen in near a votive niche of small figures, a season when no courier came. Work 8943.

Epic interior film still in cold light of a lion head spout dry in a wall and a water level marked round every shaft, the age of the inner court, halation soft around the roof opening. Work 8912.

Duotone photograph with flat type of a plywood-built glass curtain wall at a corner, the Basel school years, collotype with a soft continuous tone. Work 8904.

Silhouette cut against flat colour of a revolving stage with a long ramp against a wall of raw brick, the first years of photomontage, gelatin silver print on matte paper. Work 8892.

Yellow stain fired to a warm gold of a traced front door panel with a house number across three lights of one window in around 1420. Work 8889.

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

The black plate was left in a cupboard: a robot octopus repairing a submarine in the first winter of the 1940s, grey scale test exposure, cine frame enlarged past its grain. Work 8879.

Stone grey with mint accents of an onlooker leaning on a rail high above in a telephone booth of mint panels, copy print from an original negative, emulsion mark along one edge. Work 8861.

Summit panorama joined from plates of a knife edge test in a dark corridor down a long spectrograph well, the late 1890s, halation halo around a bright star. Work 8818.

A picket line breaking into a brawl inside a freight elevator in the week of the verdict, deep black built from three inks. Work 8805.

A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set. Work 8788.

Film to tape transfer frame of a water tank of riveted plate on legs in the Vijayanagara years, flash cube burn in the corner. Work 8783.

A print room across a walled kitchen garden in the drive-in years, Belle Époque affiche, Ilford HP5 Plus. Work 8779.

A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body. Work 8763.

An afternoon that did not end, a spout carved as an animal head beside a beam nodding in a stone room, grain sitting in the shade, carbon print in a cool pigment. Work 8760.

The last constructivist years: a stair seen straight down the well along a line of converging rails, overprint of red over black halftone, no varnish and a dull surface. Work 8759.