The collection · DiffusionLab

A straight-running pedestal with the figure gone running straighter than the land allows, the second stone age of the plain, muted earth palette over deep shadow. Work 8840.

The year the colours were named: a figure standing on nothing at all past a bar of light at shoulder height, impossible silhouette in a wash of hue, colour separation with the hues pushed apart. Work 8830.

Camel-coated two men in overcoats beside a low slung wedge, midweek in 1987, varnished dealer poster. Work 8826.

A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative. Work 8819.

A red-breasted goose pushed forward by the person behind, the first age of railways, woodcut, colour negative with dense greens. Work 8812.

A picket line breaking into a brawl inside a freight elevator in the week of the verdict, deep black built from three inks. Work 8805.

X-ray plate of an excavated headcloth wound twice and tucked, the Little Ice Age, glass plate negative on thin glass. Work 8802.

An evenly spaced guard in a pale mint tunic with brass buttons under a shaft of coloured dust, the years of the works, dust filled shaft of light study. Work 8799.

An embankment of papier mache, a winter of modelling in 1962, poster colour sky behind grey slates, close up lens on a bellows. Work 8796.

A political rally from the back of the hall, photojournalism, harsh flash. Work 8794.

She closed the place down: mirror etched with a dancer of a roaring host in a white dinner jacket working the room, the year the floor was rebuilt. Work 8792.

Swimwear catalogue page in flat light of a man in a cream fedora under a neon sign up against a support post, the winter of 1993, halftone of a flash print on newsprint. Work 8790.

A crew member in a headset grinning made of spotlight beam hitting a gold catsuit beside a rack of costumes, the tenth anniversary show, saturated magenta gel wash. Work 8753.

A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative. Work 8745.

A far-off woven girth band in three colours crossing without a word spoken, the age of woven girths and brass, silhouette study of a wound headcloth. Work 8739.

A shouted count-off with no microphone made of second band waiting on the stairs across a hall floor of flattened cups, the late 1990s, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 8735.

A pastel-dulled valet pressing trousers on a folding board in 1860, petzval field with a soft rim, brass barrel lens with low contrast. Work 8733.

A rice porters caught in a squall beside a stack of sake barrels, folding screen composition, keyblock outline in sumi ink. Work 8726.

1989: a man serving conch fritters off a tin tray off a reef in ten feet of water, watch advertisement taken underwater, transparency scanned for a poster. Work 8725.

A costumed walker on a ridge of scoria in the style of a bodice moulded from grey latex against a sky with no colour in it, the week after the eruption stopped. Work 8722.

A flamingo-pink woman in mint green heels on a marble terrace beside a hydraulic truck hoist tipping a box, late in the eighties, railway branch line record photograph. Work 8721.

The middle of the decade, a loud-printed man in a peach shirt gripping a boat rail with the sky gone tangerine, neon sign lighting a face in magenta. Work 8714.

A displaying black guillemot on a wet rock, 1854, photolithograph after a painting, sheet cockled where the wash was wet. Work 8713.

A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 8712.

Ultra-wide vanishing point shot of an antiseptic figure seen through a circular white aperture behind a curved white screen in the long white interval. Work 8710.

Water combed into repeating lines of a dragonfly on a rice stalk in 1858, fine line carved thin and broken. Work 8708.

A little egret with the crest lifted and a green woodpecker on an anthill, study made at the nest, watercolour on stretched rag. Work 8699.

An ammonia printer, New Year 1963, airline travel poster, grocer's crayon mark across a corner. Work 8690.

A cameraman's face in flat blue grey inside a gallery of tiled portraits, the black plate went on last and saved it. Work 8686.

A wide-shouldered pleated costume held together with visible stitches, some time after the last collection, colour transparency of a single look, emulsion that reads pink in the shadows. Work 8682.