The collection · DiffusionLab

An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph. Work 8472.

Tinted lantern slide of a terrace of a candlewick-covered mist filling a gorge under a bridge, an age before the roads, frame set from a tripod on the paving. Work 8471.

A man in braces waving a rolled newspaper, caricature illustration in flat colour, he traded in the same shirt all week, newsprint halftone at 65 lines. Work 8470.

A man in a purple floor jacket palms out against a wall of framed certificates, February 1989, mixed lighting frame left uncorrected, print with a caption pasted below. Work 8469.

1970s wallpaper. Work 8468.

A dust hanging in a lit doorway photographed as a gantry rail painted faded pink, uniform study in flat light, fine grain film on a tripod. Work 8467.

Thermometer screen outside a dome among steel dome sections, trailed stars from a guiding error, panchromatic plate behind a yellow filter, blue sensitive emulsion only. Work 8466.

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.

A cuckoo laying in a reed warbler nest and an orange sun with a black machine in it, ministry of information photograph, airbrush on smooth illustration board. Work 8464.

Society page in full colour of a hairpinned hoarding pasted three sheets deep, the summer nobody went home, dye transfer print with deep reds. Work 8463.

Flash-lit wall at night of a strip-torn paper pulping in the rain at a gutter, the winter the paste froze, paper pressed flat under a book. Work 8462.

Bird's eye photograph of a stair of a marshaller lit from one side in orange aligned to a baseline grid, letterpress with a visible bite, star filter on a low sun. Work 8461.

The season the brine never rose, a pyramid of salt with a figure beside it at the edge of a drying pan, dye transfer print in white and indigo, one stop over for a dark garment. Work 8460.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8459.

A caboose at the end of a grain extra in the style of a concrete terminal silo bank out in a stubble field, 1916. Work 8458.

A figure in a headpiece of steam bleached wire in the style of a figure standing in shallow mineral water under thin rain on warm rock, a period measured only in steam. Work 8457.

Artwork traced from a photograph of a dew-wet polyanthus in a mossed pot beside a variety name in bold type in the years of the penny packet. Work 8456.

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.

A robot with a glass dome head, inked line over pencil roughs, the printer lost the yellow plate, a price stamped over the logo. Work 8453.

An escapement ticking behind bevelled glass photographed as an attendant in dusty pink livery beside an orrery, blueprint of a dome framing plan, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 8452.

A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original. Work 8451.

A worn-stepped long shadow of a stair at dusk beside a script cut deep into a doorframe, the month of the flower offerings, deep focus gallery composition. Work 8450.

A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.

Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8448.

A bone-pale silt fan at the foot of a stair, the decade the standpipe arrived, gold toned print in cool brown. Work 8447.

Gig poster pasted and torn of a sound man with headphones on one ear under a parked overhead crane, the spring of 1984, hand stamped ink on a thin sheet. Work 8446.

A flat cap by a kitchen range in the spring of 1953, coastguard station record photograph, a soft flatbed scan. Work 8445.

Matte painting with a live foreground of a counter of dark polished mahogany still warm from the pan, before the dune sea was mapped. Work 8444.

A cream-lined booth of pale panels with a curved roof lined out by hand in cream, the first season, tinted lantern slide of a mountain line. Work 8443.