The collection · DiffusionLab

A boatman looking up into the vault, an age of quiet under a broken dome, deep atmospheric perspective bay by bay, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 8081.

A greased peeled bucker cutting a log into lengths, 1915, lumber trade journal plate, negative fogged along one edge. Work 8075.

Polarised sky over turquoise of a man in a knotted shirt at the helm under a flag of no known country, the years the shore wells held, slow emulsion with almost no grain. Work 8068.

Neon sign design sketch of a man in a mirrored waistcoat clapping overhead, motion blur under a hard flash, HP5 developed hot. Work 8062.

A rider leading two animals on foot and a lead walker setting a straight line, single flat colour over black line, bracketed for the haze and the stone. Work 8050.

A man in a cream jacket betting on the tie beside a doorman in gold braid, she tipped in the highest colour they had. Work 8048.

Photogrammed trimmed flush marionette carved as cylinders, the last Berlin year, lower case setting throughout, glass plate negative contact printed. Work 8032.

The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term. Work 8021.

A fume-hazed man in slippers on a balcony at breakfast in the opening years of the 1970s, grainless large format colour, trimmed off centre on the sheet. Work 8017.

A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943. Work 8016.

A man in shirtsleeves with a pen behind each ear in a corridor of grey terminals in midweek in 1985, rotary press page with ghosting. Work 8012.

A silo rank throwing hard shadow and a worker sitting in a window reveal, stark contrast with the shadow blocked, red filter darkening a pale sky. Work 8006.

A man in a ribbed collar too high to turn in in front of a blood-red alcove, the doors were numbered but not labelled. Work 7989.

A thorn-fenced couple in matching towelling on a stone step in the Chilean Unidad Popular years, anamorphic print with a soft edge, Polaroid 669 peel-apart. Work 7952.

A butcher's head in flat pink printed again in a worse pair of inks, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait print with an overprinted edge, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 7948.

A movie poster for a film with no dialogue, minimal, one object. Work 7929.

Landscape with a thin line of figures of a chalk-white figure with cymbals tied to the knees past a stone trough full of rain in the week the fog stayed down. Work 7920.

Environmental portrait in leathers of a grease-blacked astronaut on a red desert plain, the August number, solarised print from a lab error. Work 7908.

A volcanologist beside a wheel coming slowly to rest, line plate with mechanical tint, yellowed groundwood paper. Work 7906.

A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 7899.

A figured zodiacal band above a ridge in 1904, fixer staining a border, paraffin lamp light and long shadows. Work 7892.

1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 7869.

Stereograph pair of a threshing crew of a grain price chalked up on a board beneath a run of taped cable, screen frame with a phosphor smear, slow film in bright prairie light. Work 7852.

Stillness treated as the whole content of a spear leaned against a root buttress in the long dry year, charcoal with bread crumb lifting. Work 7851.

Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of a rope-tended silt cloud raised by one boot, 1896, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp. Work 7841.

Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a man in a checked shirt with three phones ringing under a haze of cigarette smoke, four decades under the upper city, frame with a raster line pattern. Work 7833.

A camel led by a turbaned figure photographed as a sower scattering grain for October, grisaille miniature with touched colour, mosaic gold of tin and sulphur. Work 7831.

A pilgrim resting on the lowest step below the broken roof of a tower in the time of the nine towers, perspective set on the road's centre line, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 7809.

Atmospheric layering cinematography of a boatman standing with one pole among buttress roots, negative developed by inspection, still photographer's colour negative. Work 7775.

1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7761.