The collection · DiffusionLab

A hat box stacked on a leather case photographed as a service bell push beside a bed, staff portrait on a grand staircase, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 6759.

Photo story with invented captions of a woman in oversized pearls at the pool steps mid-laugh with the head thrown back, August on the coast. Work 6740.

The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges. Work 6733.

A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun. Work 6693.

A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print. Work 6691.

The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon. Work 6681.

Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied. Work 6675.

Late in the eighties, a man in a peach jacket at a neon pool bar against a pastel stucco wall, title sequence frame with a lit grid, six by six transparency. Work 6660.

A ragwort lined out by hand in one colour, the shag pile years, frame with the flash not quite recycled, grade with the shadows pushed to cyan. Work 6653.

A crew member in white boots on a white floor and a parasol with lace, advertising still for a hi-fi leaflet, copy shot slightly off square. Work 6636.

Visas arranged by the agency: timetable cover illustration of a straw hatted lacquered tray of tea things, 1960. Work 6605.

A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400. Work 6566.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 6557.

The early 1950s, an undocumented Guess Your Weight scale dated the day it was made, closed circuit camera image. Work 6491.

A woman in a wrap dress, Warhol style silkscreen portrait, the bar stopped serving at four, harsh direct flash. Work 6475.

An orange and brown long black, the summer of 1913, 828 Bantam format. Work 6458.

A gentleman in white tie made of marquee on a lawn at Newport in the season, the first season after the war, slight motion in the hands. Work 6432.

1936, an underdressed tender coming alongside with the sea behind, Rolleiflex portrait. Work 6424.

An enforcer in a double-breasted suit in a pawnshop window in the mid 1940s, monochrome film still, Cooke Speed Panchro lens. Work 6400.

Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands. Work 6349.

A feathered woman in a Halston dress in the first months of 1981, 35mm lens close to the subject, Ilford HP5 pushed. Work 6336.

Matchbook illustration of a man in a white three-piece suit in the last light of a strobe, the first months of 1981, bare bulb flash head. Work 6318.

Fluxus printed multiple of an attendant standing by a door in the late 1970s, print trimmed square. Work 6302.

Colour rotogravure advertisement of a hand lettered ranch hand striking a match on a thumbnail, 1959, Fujichrome transparency. Work 6286.

Yacht club regatta photograph of a long white glove past the elbow in a red coat, 1926. Work 6266.

Ancestral portrait of an unamused debutante's first waltz, 1924, tungsten light in a studio. Work 6253.

1865, a self conscious Amphicyon in a lurex jumpsuit under the lights, tin glazed earthenware dish. Work 6239.

A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare. Work 6237.

A night shift museum of curiosities, the Ptolemaic years, Adox NC 17 colour negative. Work 6225.

A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead. Work 6188.