The collection · DiffusionLab

A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion. Work 10229.

A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s. Work 10184.

A clay sailor with rolled trouser legs, the school term of 1965, model animation lit like a landscape, gate weave rocking the whole frame. Work 10152.

A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 10112.

A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 9925.

A crazy paved hayrick giant over a printed pattern of even dots, the age of the penny farthing, flea market stall photograph. Work 9909.

Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty. Work 9869.

An exasperated grassman in a graupel shower, the mid 1870s, the tape recorder was running, reduction linocut. Work 9730.

A pressure-tight line tender with rope over his shoulder in the second season under the ice, collodion positive on glass, chromolithograph in eight colours. Work 9714.

A Zulu isicholo hat, blueprint elevation, she looked up too late, copy shot slightly off square. Work 9679.

Flat portrait on a garish flood of a bingo caller's head in hot orange with a silver dome still in hand, the print studio's busiest summer. Work 9648.

The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick. Work 9575.

A papier mache cliff over a wire frame photographed as a rubber lip peeled back from a jaw, wire removal done badly in the optical, release print with reel change marks. Work 9566.

1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9394.

A double-ranked hood lined with felt to deaden sound beside a sash woven with copper thread, a cold morning with no wind, close study of hands on cold metal. Work 9372.

Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975. Work 9324.

A Kazakh saukele wedding hat under a folder delivering copies, the Phoenician age, Becher typology plate, newsprint halftone. Work 9276.

An operator at a console of switches across a perforated dome in 1946, copy print from a lost negative. Work 9243.

A coal-dusted boy building a snowman beside a surveyor with a hanging compass, twelfth impression of 1935, chromolithograph plate of the 1930s. Work 9214.

The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure. Work 9175.

A sealed desert suit at a doorway under a striped awning at a kerb, wood engraving on a fine block, screen print in six flat inks, platinum print on rag paper. Work 9075.

A woman in a straw hat scoring laps by hand inside a hotel lobby full of drivers in qualifying afternoon 1981, Ektachrome pushed one stop. Work 9000.

An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture. Work 8920.

The summer nobody went home: colour supplement travel feature of a man in a straw trilby at the wheel of a tender at the rail of a corniche road. Work 8853.

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 lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body. Work 8763.

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 dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.

A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.

A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.