The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

A woman in a straw hat scoring laps by hand inside a hotel lobby full of drivers in qualifying afternoon 1981, Ektachrome pushed one stop. Work 9000.

Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of an attendant screwing a helmet down in the century the shimmer was mapped, carbro print with soft edges. Work 8986.

The 1938 edition, girls in a ring holding hands in the margin beside a poem, paper browned at the fore edge, a name written inside the front cover. Work 8984.

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

Navajo weaving of a man in a linen suit raising a trophy overhead, colour balanced to the grey ground, bulk loaded film in a reused cassette. Work 8971.

An exploded diagram of a household object, technical illustration, line art. Work 8970.

Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 8949.

A vetehinen and a hunt meet outside a country inn in the last bay before the dark, the Benin kingdom years, kalamkari panel. Work 8932.

An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture. Work 8920.

The age of the typewriter, grammar school trilobites crawling across a Cambrian seabed in a tracksuit zipped to the chin, enamelled plaque. Work 8890.

A hangar-bound bow cap of riveted panels in the first season of the mast, cyanotype of an engineering plate, gum bichromate in two pulls. Work 8887.

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.

One-roll document of a whole show of an unamplified hot spot of flash on a forehead toward a microphone held out flat in a hundred degree July. Work 8851.

Ice-cooled two women in white sharing a parasol beside a woman in a tennis dress eating strawberries, 1976, helicopter photograph over the courts. Work 8834.

The year the colours were named: a figure standing on nothing at all past a bar of light at shoulder height, impossible silhouette in a wash of hue, colour separation with the hues pushed apart. Work 8830.

A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 8819.

X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.

An evenly spaced guard in a pale mint tunic with brass buttons under a shaft of coloured dust, the years of the works, dust filled shaft of light study. Work 8799.

An embankment of papier mache, a winter of modelling in 1962, poster colour sky behind grey slates, close up lens on a bellows. Work 8796.

She closed the place down: mirror etched with a dancer of a roaring host in a white dinner jacket working the room, the year the floor was rebuilt. Work 8792.

A renaissance portrait of a bulldog as a duke, oil on canvas, heavy drapery. Work 8791.

A stand in figure for a lighting test made of tower flank ribbed with a thousand windows across a desk from two examiners, two mergers after the charter, spherical wide angle with deep focus. Work 8772.

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.

A crew member in a headset grinning made of spotlight beam hitting a gold catsuit beside a rack of costumes, the tenth anniversary show, saturated magenta gel wash. Work 8753.

A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.

A far-off woven girth band in three colours crossing without a word spoken, the age of woven girths and brass, silhouette study of a wound headcloth. Work 8739.

A shouted count-off with no microphone made of second band waiting on the stairs across a hall floor of flattened cups, the late 1990s, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 8735.

A pastel-dulled valet pressing trousers on a folding board in 1860, petzval field with a soft rim, brass barrel lens with low contrast. Work 8733.

Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.