The collection · DiffusionLab

An armillary sphere on a mahogany column photographed as an equatorial mount painted pale mint, museum inventory photograph, large format colour with a deep haze. Work 8352.

A table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor. Work 8351.

Betamax tape still of a bog garden beside a rail of matching suits, a faded dye coupler stain, Kodak Ektar 1000. Work 8350.

The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page. Work 8349.

Operating rule book illustration of a fireman filling the tender by hand, coarse newspaper halftone, selenium-toned print. Work 8348.

The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.

The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey. Work 8346.

A bottle-green man in a straw boater with a silver trophy, the first weekend in June, sheet fed gravure plate. Work 8345.

A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition. Work 8344.

A mortified contrail shadow in the Lebanese golden age, Rodenstock Imagon, neon sign light. Work 8343.

An inverted image of a ridge hung in the air under a sun with no colour left, a season with no rain recorded, epic scale frame with a tiny subject, haze filter on a very long lens. Work 8342.

1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover. Work 8341.

A grease-smeared dragon swallowing its own tail, the Whitsun of 1964, Japanese ema votive plaque, print with the crowd left in shadow. Work 8340.

A bell tower above a cedar grove beyond a headland of black pine, the Bunsei years, nagasaki-e port print, beni pink faded to pale tan. Work 8339.

Cross-hatched shadow under leaves of a quail covey under sagebrush in 1921, offset lithography on coated label stock. Work 8338.

A heraldic shield with quartered arms and a traceried head of a tall window outside a terminus squared to the slope, around 1740, lead lines read as a heavy outline. Work 8337.

Reflection-heavy street composition of a neon-washed rickshaw cyclist standing on the pedals, well after the last clear summer, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 8336.

Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8335.

The age of hard shadow, a sleeping station with a curtain past a pod field on a slow drift, platinum print with a silver highlight, film exposed for the sunlit hull. Work 8334.

The badge opened one door too many: planning model photograph of a two up two down missile silo with its lid open, the closing years of the 1870s. Work 8333.

A display case holding one object across a diagonal band of blue, photogram with a soft penumbra, enlargement with a white keyline, silkscreen with a matte surface. Work 8332.

A hire purchased procession in single file on a chalk road along a kerb pressed out of clay, the year the supermarket opened, it came out too dark, workhouse register photograph. Work 8331.

A grit-blasted doorway cut into the side of a dune, the third survey century, frame line printed slightly low. Work 8330.

Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan. Work 8329.

Combat photographer's frame of an ash strewn spectroheliograph, the World Cup summer of 1962, Kodak T-Max P3200. Work 8328.

Ski school notice in flat inks of a wooden stave church in deep snow and a coral island with a single palm, the late 1920s, magenta misregister by a hair. Work 8327.

A printed programme for a sky show on a wooden globe stand, the operator knew the script by heart. Work 8326.

Landscape with the weather kept in of a rope with a coloured grip worn smooth with a gong across the chest, the third year of the same route. Work 8325.

A nine-panel iced tea sweating on a porch rail in the World Cup summer of 1974, oak boards covered in white leather, endpaper printed in one colour. Work 8324.

A barograph trace on a slow drum beyond the last town light in the late 1890s, lithograph in two inks. Work 8323.