The collection · DiffusionLab

A hydraulic pit prop in the style of a miniature Leaning Tower of Pisa below a telegraph on a shelf, the chrome bumper years. Work 10255.

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.

Silver gelatin contact print of a mugshot in profile at a table beside the bandstand, the mid 1940s, shaft of light through a blind. Work 9939.

A woman in a headscarf on a hotel roof terrace at a wheel stack behind a garage, the shift with no supervisor on, works handbook illustration, four colour halftone on gloss stock. Work 9539.

The height of the motor show boom, a chrome-bumpered couple beside a coupe with the doors raised with driving gloves still on, corporate portrait beside a company coupe. Work 9443.

A kamale ngoni against a wall of coarse magenta dots, nobody could play it. Work 9365.

Low horizon with a vertical headpiece of an arm reaching over a wall of shoulders over a crowd singing every word, the last week of the thaw, large format landscape on sheet film. Work 9138.

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.

The age of the typewriter, grammar school trilobites crawling across a Cambrian seabed in a tracksuit zipped to the chin, enamelled plaque. Work 8890.

Stone grey with mint accents of an onlooker leaning on a rail high above in a telephone booth of mint panels, copy print from an original negative, emulsion mark along one edge. Work 8861.

A scale overlapped to shed the light, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, it was cold to wear and she said nothing, meter reading taken off the shell. Work 8845.

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.

A woman at the wheel with her eyes shut, the last night of the season, jewellery advertisement under a chandelier, print spotted out along the rail. Work 8575.

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.

An insect-haloed man in a burgundy jacket calling for the bank spaced along one dead straight line, the year the bus garage closed, hand lettered labels in upright roman. Work 8437.

A figure in a helmet of blown opal glass against a wall painted oil green, a period measured in exposures, fashion photograph with no motion at all, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 8362.

The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page. Work 8349.

A man in a ribbed collar too high to turn in in front of a blood-red alcove, the doors were numbered but not labelled. Work 7989.

A day kept for the walking: a skirt hooped and hung with small clappers in front of a wall of bare brick, medium format group portrait held still, stopped down for depth down the line. Work 7602.

1970s cartoon, wes anderson. Work 7552.

A glinting woman serving with a ball tucked in a pocket beside a bell on the clubhouse wall, the August tournament, he broke the racket and won anyway, wire service photograph of a final. Work 7468.

A plaster cast in an ochre painted tray made of percussionist with a cowbell held high within a rack of numbered tubes, the syndication years, generation loss from a dubbed tape. Work 7441.

Deadpan portrait in impossible light of a colour-washed figure reflected in a curved pane of colour, the period of the open gate, colour master graded past plausible. Work 7338.

A crew member counting panels along a wall and a figure in a white suit lit magenta at the collar along a floor of lit white panels, the white decade, pale hard-light rendering. Work 7273.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7124.

Surface satin stitch with no padding of a radiator with gilled tubes outlined in back stitch, the mid Victorian decades. Work 7062.

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

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

Northern industrial documentary photograph of an ice halo under a stepped tower crown, 1882, Svema CO-32D reversal. Work 6195.