The collection · DiffusionLab

The spring of 1952: a cedar-shadowed Iznik tile, teal shadow under a viaduct arch, minilab balance gone warm. Work 7842.

It was over before the light changed: a procession photographed from the front in the hour the light came up grey, study of felt and metal together, transparency viewed on a light box. Work 7817.

An organ console of two manuals made of gimballed lamp hanging over a table beside a bunker sloping to the deck, 1881, petzval swirl at the frame edge. Work 7812.

Logarithmic paper with unequal spacing of a copper light along a whole ridge above a strip of metal matting, Y2K, single lamp exposure with a reflector. Work 7799.

An espalier pear on a warm wall under a hat brim in strong sun, 1914, ornamental border struck from brass rule, gloss varnish over a flat panel. Work 7788.

Christmas 1963, a suddenly shy bell of dull bronze with a worn lip at five in the morning, archaeological find record photograph. Work 7787.

A hoof-printed marker of stones on a crest, the age of the loaded animal, figure rim lit by a distant lamp, grain lifting in the shadow side. Work 7771.

A keel corridor running to a vanishing point, the first ten minutes of daylight, cyan shadow colour treatment, incandescent light on warm wood. Work 7770.

1906: a lamp-yellowed barrels ranged along a quay, harbour plan in ink and wash, negative with rust marks from a tin. Work 7768.

A bedspread of dusty pink candlewick made of sugar tongs laid across a bowl below a glacier behind the facade, the winter the wing was shut, two strip colour with pale flesh tones. Work 7766.

The sixth decade of the company towns, a tower flank with three floors dark across a lobby floor of black stone, acrylic on hardboard with hard edges, bounced light off polished stone. Work 7756.

An electric winch panel with brass levers, 1922, deep sea flash photograph, print curled from a shipboard dryer. Work 7727.

Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light. Work 7709.

Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper. Work 7699.

Rim lit silhouette against black of a generator-fed strobe head clamped to a beam, the last night before the demolition, U-matic tape frame with dropout. Work 7661.

Product photography of a limb of a locker wall with numbered doors and a filing wall with one tray open, two model generations after the recall, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 7659.

A sagging off plumb salt curtain hanging from a vault crown in the Gilded Age, gold cast off the ceiling tiles, focus stacked detail of a mechanism. Work 7632.

A rock hammer beside a basalt pillow behind a bank of instrument lamps in 1947, bottom camera exposure, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 7630.

A binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving. Work 7562.

A gear-quiet gramophone turntable at a console on a maintenance night, 1923, the lamp blew during the eclipse part, night exterior with a lit entrance. Work 7534.

Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume. Work 7527.

A soot-inked paper lantern shop at dusk in 1814, carver's seal beside the title, album page with a paper hinge. Work 7526.

A tank hall with twelve columns lit, instructional manual illustration, the model was not on the standard list, deep black against a white wall. Work 7470.

A unison-struck patchbay with cables hanging loose in five hundred summers from now, exposure set to hold the shutter marks, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 7464.

A bead-hung bubble canopy filled with orange light beside a stack of fuel drums, the morning after the rain stopped, slow shutter rotor frame. Work 7461.

A giant onion beside a coin for scale photographed as a strawberry runner pegged into soil, airbrushed bloom over a flat panel, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 7436.

Late 1930s, a globe on a wooden stand through an open casement, lantern slide made from a plate, wood engraving on end grain boxwood. Work 7378.

The tint plate slipped in printing: a conical pendulum tracing a circle in the term after the new syllabus, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, photogravure on smooth etching stock. Work 7363.

Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper. Work 7348.

Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 7333.