The collection · DiffusionLab

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.

The Reconstruction era, a tiple at the top of chapter one, interlace comb on a fast move, a faded dye coupler stain. Work 8526.

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

Photograph made in one afternoon of a figure attended by two dressers in grey and a garment with its seams left on the outside, the second week of a fitting, 6x6 square frame with the figure centred. Work 8517.

The Courrèges years, a glassy-eyed map sheet weighted with two stones in a sack dress that hides the waist, Tunbridge ware mosaic. Work 8506.

A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.

Offset lithograph on thin label paper of a figure in a headpiece of anodised titanium, transparency on a light box in the dark, duplicate transparency made for the file. Work 8475.

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

1970s wallpaper. Work 8468.

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.

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

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

A frontman in a cape opening it wide, newsreel frame of a mill closure, the proof came back gold and stayed gold, two heads at forty five degrees. Work 8419.

Deadpan frontal framing of a beam of sun standing in smoke at the treeline in coloured haze, 70mm print graded green, condensation on the front element. Work 8418.

The first season: a long-bonneted woman in sunglasses timing a run by hand, flashbulb photograph at a prize table, enamel sign finish in cream and mint. Work 8383.

Deep focus plate from horizon to boot of a pleated overrobe weighted at the corners, daylight stock rated at twenty five, exposure protected for a black garment. Work 8380.

A figure in a helmet of blown opal glass against a wall painted oil green, a period measured in exposures, fashion photograph with no motion at all, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 8362.

A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph. Work 8360.

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.

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

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

A gloss white suited pair carrying a sealed white case, the era before the hatch was named, backlit interior study, fine grain positive print. Work 8321.

Advertising still for a resort leaflet of a woman in a lemon dress leaning on a pink wall and a woman in a pink visor serving at a net, the season of the open hull. Work 8313.

A pendant fitting hanging four storeys down photographed as a relief frieze running above a doorway, environment study in three flat values, print holding the shadow just open. Work 8308.

Blown-out reproduction of pasted paper of a photocopied flyer with a black border beside a scraper leaning on a pole, the year of the tear-off strip, ink run through by a night of rain. Work 8302.

Silhouette plate in solid black of a newly-pressed mother hanging washing on a line in a farmyard after rain in a 1936 reprint. Work 8297.

A figure in a hood of woven horsehair and two figures in matching sculptural gowns, colour study of texture and volume, green held true through the whole frame. Work 8270.

A vine-crowned succotash toward a flyer pasted upside down, the space age fashion years, only the initials, silk shading embroidery. Work 8267.