The collection · DiffusionLab

A suited figure wrapped in a band of orange before a rectangle of glowing green, the era of the single traveller, figure edge-lit in a contrasting hue, hard colour print on gloss paper. Work 10154.

A movie poster for a spy film set in one hotel, 1963, geometric. Work 10146.

An elevator operator with a slack jaw, the turn of the 1970s, comprehensive layout in marker, magenta out of register by a hair. Work 10077.

An air hostess pointing to an exit with the sound word lettered across it, the hundredth issue, dotted illustration with no grey in it, two flats meeting with a white gap. Work 10060.

Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw. Work 10057.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 10017.

A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper. Work 9972.

An escalator ribbon inside a glass flank along a corridor of identical doors, monolithic forms in flat light, sepia warmth in the highlights. Work 9866.

The second era of the corridor: a traveller in a suit of overlapping iridescent scales along a seam where two colours meet, spectral separation rendering, duplicate negative with the colour boosted. Work 9580.

A brass turnstile at a hall entrance round a mahogany column of brass rings in 1824, frontal cabinet elevation, silver gelatin print on matt paper. Work 9331.

A scale beam in an elevator office in the style of a man-lift rope in an elevator shaft in flat light on open prairie, the dust years. Work 9196.

A lift bank with eight illuminated doors among a shift crossing the concourse in the decade the sky was sold in lots, large format transparency on a light box. Work 9156.

The first year of the car phone, a man in a tailored coat holding two sets of keys beside a barrier at a members gate, silkscreen on mirror board, six by seven chrome on a light box. Work 9064.

Summit panorama joined from plates of a knife edge test in a dark corridor down a long spectrograph well, the late 1890s, halation halo around a bright star. Work 8818.

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.

Society page frame at a hotel door of a woman in a silver coat beside a chrome exhaust, tape still with a soft magenta edge, print with the black gone slightly green. Work 8652.

The second ascent: duralumin-framed two clerks in dusty pink jackets, volumetric beams through a hangar haze, letterpress plate with a number block. Work 8630.

A follow spot picking out a soloist beside a chrome staircase, export catalogue illustration, video smear off a chrome stair. Work 8627.

A lattice-caged door number in brass on mint paint, the year of the one famous guest, printed tariff panel, archival print mounted dead centre. Work 8369.

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.

A row of six identical heads inside a lift of mirrored panels, high contrast portrait in two tones, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground. Work 8273.

An inflatable dome and an elevator being pulled down by cable under fluorescent tube lighting, the second half of the century, moiré patterned halftone. Work 8228.

1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8101.

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.

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 doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks. Work 7943.

Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7780.

A bar door letting out red light made of porter carrying a crate on his head along an avenue of clipped yews, the middle of the synthetic boom, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 7692.

1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7556.

Tour programme photograph of a couple squeezed together in a mirrored lift in the year the floor was rebuilt, airbrush lacquered to a high sheen. Work 7427.