The collection · DiffusionLab

A sun disc doubled in the river and a fisherman standing in a narrow canoe, scale study of a boat and a bank, wet gate printed dupe. Work 8641.

A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film. Work 8631.

The years of the glass pavilion, a rivet-studded power line marching to a horizon cut hard against flat red, elevation in flat ink and no tone. Work 8611.

A ration of water measured into a cup inside a camp pitched on dry crust, screen print in black over white stock, photochemical print with a cold base, graphite and wash on smooth paper. Work 8596.

The spine of a library book that was never written, macro, dust, warm lamp. Work 8590.

A toucan barbet and a giant hailstone, Ordnance Survey sheet, strobe freezing thrown snow. Work 8560.

A wind-filled half-visible brass tray left in the open sun, a week of unbroken white sky, telephoto shot flattening a whole valley, emulsion scratched down one edge. Work 8553.

An incense stick burning on a jetty post and a boat and its shadow the only marks on the river under the bottom of a hull, 1864, monumental landscape framing. Work 8546.

Well into the age of the grown limb: benday pattern behind a figure of a war nurse under a canvas roof between two waiting attendants. Work 8540.

An infused slice of dried rhubarb root beside a sheet of blistering plaster, 1710, delft blue laid over a white glaze. Work 8539.

A rocky islet crowned with pines in the style of a hare running across the waves among flowering plum branches, 1831. Work 8529.

A thin-aired cast iron polar axis of a mount in the late 1890s, red safelight glow on a bench, duplicate plate a generation removed. Work 8527.

The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.

A tuyul, the closing years of the 1980s, department store studio portrait, chromolithograph in six colours. Work 8519.

Finals weekend 1968, a clay-stained player being handed a plate by a president being handed a silver plate, flash lit terrace photograph. Work 8504.

Crystalline glazed vase of an agitated Cuba libre, the Kohl years, contact print from a 620 negative. Work 8494.

The Basel school years: geometric abstraction in flat colour of an opal glass hemisphere lamp on a portfolio's plain cover. Work 8487.

Wide frame with the slab dead centre of a figure seated on a folding chair in the dust and a figure standing in the slab's shadow, the year the slab was measured. Work 8479.

The spring the globes arrived, a globe varnish gone faintly amber amid ranging rods in a stack, Kodachrome with dusty pink plaster, copperplate engraving on damp pressed paper. Work 8476.

A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze. Work 8465.

Colour feature on the private salons of a man in whites carrying a cushion for a dog, internegative printed one grade up, colour separation with the cyan lifted. Work 8455.

A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report. Work 8454.

1568: a porphyry slab with a muller behind a bottle marked POISON, photographed by daylight on a bench, hand colour brushed over a woodcut. Work 8438.

A bottle of tonic in the style of a circus of shadows against a starred blue sky, the Futurist years. Work 8433.

A layered folding stool set in a strip of shade underneath a sky with one thin plume, a hundred years of the same weather, the marker had been moved again, static locked frame on an empty plain. Work 8426.

A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 8399.

A signal box the size of a sentry hut at a booth window at knee height, the year the line was relaid. Work 8392.

The last summer of steam: an ash-dusted driver oiling round with a can, shed roster record snapshot, silver gelatin contact print. Work 8388.

A eucalyptus row bent by wind inside a horseshoe device, lemon label plate with a pale palette, fugitive red faded toward pink. Work 8387.

A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration. Work 8356.