The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

The winter the chain went dark, watchpost wedged between two boulders along a ledge cut into a cliff, ground glass focused by hand, sepia toned bromide print. Work 9540.

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 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.

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.

Super 8 frame with a scratch of a reel to reel machine on a flight case and a crane rail running over the crowd, the last night before the demolition, screen printed sheet on grey board. Work 9511.

1930, mud-caked whale fall bones on the bottom recovered on the second attempt, instrument catalogue plate. Work 9507.

Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.

Outside broadcast camera frame of a bottle sparkler held high in a booth and a whole floor singing one line together, the spring of 1980, push-processed grain in the shadows. Work 9490.

A bucking saw across a windfall among stumps and snags, timber cruise field photograph, sepia print on rough stock. Work 9470.

Nobody agreed on what it was for: a half sphere sunk into a dry lake in the last of the deep soundings, three quarter view on an upright mass, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 9463.

The Basel school years: diagram as the whole composition of a record sleeve of concentric rings on a table of pale linoleum. Work 9456.

A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam. Work 9455.

The trolley came up three times before noon: presentation plate for a shareholder report of a chalk-pastel promenade deck with a sloped window wall, the year the gantry was built. Work 9445.

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 headstone with an unreadable epitaph, wet plate collodion, moss. Work 9441.

A beacon tower on a bare granite shoulder at the mouth of a high pass in the age before the relief was cut, polariser cutting the white sky. Work 9438.

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.

Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.

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.

Worm's eye view up a sheer face of a sunken plaza and an alien fungus city, the late 1900s, optical dupe with hazed corners. Work 9420.

Overprinted colour out of register of an escalator ribbon inside a glass flank at the end of a very long table, the decade of the vertical franchise, top light with deep floor shadow. Work 9419.

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.

A star field plate on a light box on a ridge above a dry lake, 1904. Work 9379.

Courtyard sunk two floors into rock among unfinished floor plates, split-toned print with cool shadows, 5x7 negative with a rising front, lith print with a hard shoulder. Work 9378.