The collection · DiffusionLab

The spring of 1952: a cedar-shadowed Iznik tile, teal shadow under a viaduct arch, minilab balance gone warm. Work 7842.

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.

A dog eared spleen with the trabeculae shown, the Edwardian reissue, two colour printing in black and red, India proof on a thin sheet mounted down. Work 7840.

Ink painting manner on soft paper of a frost-rimmed stack of sacks roped onto a frame, the age before any track came, hand-rubbed with a bamboo baren. Work 7839.

A control room of lit buttons against a flat cyan ground, comic art thickened for a coarse screen, tape marks along two edges. Work 7838.

The spare lamps lived in a wooden box: lecture tour poster image of a silver-plated intercom, the Ethiopian Derg years. Work 7837.

A mainframe room with the doors open, fluorescent light, tape reels. Work 7836.

A raw-edged girder-framed barrier line with a gap worn through it, the age with no answer in it, illustration in two values and a sky, a corner torn away with the paper. Work 7835.

An arctic coast sketched from a ship and rhumb lines radiating across a chart among place names set in three sizes, 1822, engraved script for rivers and bays. Work 7834.

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 void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate. Work 7832.

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.

Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.

A light curve plotted point by point in the style of a dust devil over a valley floor at a lifting sling, the late 1890s. Work 7829.

Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones. Work 7828.

A stair cut into living rock moored to a ring driven in rock, the summer of the deep survey, diorama built in a museum case, ink on tracing linen with a title panel. Work 7827.

A late sun striking one column only and a fresco fragment above the water line, boat placed small for scale between columns, exposed for the shadow under the vault. Work 7826.

The century of the cut settlements: a crane standing over a half-built block through a portal squared out of rock, one point perspective down a colonnade, large format sheet film at f45. Work 7825.

A mile-deep sculptural headcloth snapping in a rising thermal, the age of the walking routes, architectural scale applied to a person, gate weave on a very long hold. Work 7824.

A glove in six clashing colourways across a proof with a cell missing in the first edition of fifty, staple holes at the top corner. Work 7823.

Brochure halftone of a sidereal dial with a single hand cleaned once a month, 1935. Work 7822.

A mooring block with a shackle in it between two matched lifting eyes, 1864. Work 7821.

A cook shack with a long stovepipe, documentary film frame in monochrome, they burnt the slash in September, matte black set surround cropped tight. Work 7820.

A long-standing hollyhock against a fence, just after the war, letterpress on unbleached stock. Work 7819.

A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash. Work 7818.

It was over before the light changed: a procession photographed from the front in the hour the light came up grey, study of felt and metal together, transparency viewed on a light box. Work 7817.

Charcoal study with a blocked mass of a lift lobby faced in rough concrete, casein on a prepared board, architectural transparency on daylight film. Work 7816.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7815.

An acid yellow skyline broken by one tall headpiece, the third winter of the survey, print with a matte black border. Work 7814.

The season of standing water: a hand print in clay on a trunk within a column of green smoke, silhouetted tower composition, warm filter on grey stone. Work 7813.