The collection · DiffusionLab

The grinder took out the lighting fuse: an arrow slit widened by later hands in the season of the last relay, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, half-plate camera with a long bellows. Work 6784.

A meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 6747.

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.

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 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.

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.

Pulp interior illustration in line of a tailfin on a building parapet in 1935, offset lithography on toy tin. Work 6536.

The reconstruction years, a scaffolded Expo tower with interchangeable cabins in raw concrete and glass, measured elevation in ink. Work 6512.

The atomic age: gouache illustration on board of a model city of the World of Tomorrow on a pulp magazine cover. Work 6510.

Presentation rendering with figures of a robot with tread feet under a parabolic antenna, 1941, neon reflected in wet asphalt. Work 6504.

An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element. Work 6467.

A nickel plated cast aluminium spandrel panel beside a raked funnel, the jazz age, the architect died before the topping out, cigarette silk illustration. Work 6448.

Enamelled metal panel of a Chrysler Building spire in stainless steel in a curved corner window, three colour process printing, lacquer on a gessoed panel. Work 6382.

A terminal with a rooftop viewing terrace, lithographed travel poster, rates hold for the winter season, haze over a bay in the afternoon. Work 6375.

A battery operated robot with a lit dome in the style of a giant machine looming over a figure above a plaza on a monorail, the year Sputnik went up. Work 6368.

Publicity photograph for an airline of a tobacconist weighing loose leaf in a Moscow hotel dining room, the filter tip years, sun flare across the lens. Work 6359.

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.

A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light. Work 6321.

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.

A Unisphere in stainless steel on a launch gantry, the year of the fair, instructional filmstrip frame, macro close up of a tin joint. Work 6314.

A troll market on a rooftop of antennas in the Taisho democracy years, a microfilm reader screen. Work 6264.

Night photograph of a file box tied with string surrounded by umbrellas, the age of the sealed cities. Work 6261.

A robot toy still in its box over a model highway city, advertising illustration from a magazine, Kodachrome transparency. Work 6202.

1932: a hyperboloid cathedral of concrete ribs at a mullion joint, municipal record photograph, aerial oblique from a light aircraft. Work 6137.

A neon lit Bund tower with a stepped copper roof under a fan of bulbs, the year the liner was launched, the glass came from a factory that closed, poster in Bifur capitals. Work 6132.

1966: a viaduct arch over a valley on a Sao Paulo rooftop, material sample board, Velvia saturated transparency. Work 6112.

My mother took this: a high-rise hotel behind the beach in the wakes weeks, David Hurn style photograph, light leak at the cartridge change. Work 6087.

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.