DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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A patron asleep at a counter on the far side of a rain curtain, mixed colour temperature, practical lamps in frame, HMI through a rain bar. Work 6126.
A bead shop at a casino terrace, the cotton famine years. Work 6118.
A salaried atomic power plant with a cooling stack with a works number stencilled on the locker, the turn of the 1900s, buncheong ware. Work 6108.
A chalk outline on wet pavement in the stairwell of a rooming house, gobo pattern on bare plaster, printed on nitrate stock, shaft of light through a blind. Work 6093.
A terrazzo floored stylised eagle over a post office door, 1940, duotone in black and gold. Work 6065.
A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint. Work 6055.
The model is in a store room somewhere: an empty plinth with a label in the summer of 1969, section in ink and hatching, edge fogged from the changing bag. Work 6047.
A newsstand with a curved chrome hood in a Havana stair hall in 1925, worm's eye view from the pavement. Work 6044.
A Mauresque grille over a stair window on a liner leaving port, 1926, pochoir print, varnished poster stock. Work 6030.
A doorman under a canopy under a strobe, the lift was mirrored. Work 6027.
A stoical sanatorium staircase down to the sea, the wakes weeks, flying spot scanner transfer. Work 6018.
A circus of townhouses, trade directory plate, the light went before the last setup, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 6000.
A safe standing open across a room from an open door, ask for me at the desk. Work 5996.
Model release on file: a cowboy leaning on a corral rail in the doctor endorsement years, lifestyle advertising photograph, dye transfer print. Work 5992.
A spandrel panel in dark glass in the style of a fire escape on a brick flank on a raised podium, 1976. Work 5988.
Faded Ektacolor print of a chain-link gate left open, Kodacolor II, thumbprint in the corner. Work 5976.
The early 1980s: an amusement arcade doorway beside a beach house in Japan, seaside postcard, Kodachrome 40 Type A. Work 5973.
Serial typology of structures of a palace of culture with a mosaic flank and a waffle slab ceiling, the year the estate opened, contact sheet frame with the edge showing. Work 5968.
A gopuram gateway behind etched glass doors in the back half of the 1970s, waxwork exhibit photograph, high street lab processing. Work 5963.
A kitchen of tomorrow with a push button wall outside a drive in in 1935, sunlit desert with hard shadows. Work 5960.
Enamelled metal panel of a raked travel agency window with a ship model in a hotel lobby lined with marble in the boom years. Work 5956.
35mm black and white film still of a silhouetted blotter stained with ink, the 1940s, hard key with no fill. Work 5954.
A Casablanca balcony with a wrought iron grille, the year of the Paris exposition, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, neon burning out the highlights. Work 5941.
A service door with a stepped surround and a neon script over a hotel eyebrow, lacquer panel painting, Kodachrome transparency. Work 5934.
The reel changes here: Gevacolor frame of a flower decked staircase seen from below, the Concorde years. Work 5927.
Foil blocked print of a martins at a mud nest under the eaves in the 1920s, Instamatic 126 cartridge. Work 5926.
A youth hostel common room in a rain shower in 2018, offset misregistration. Work 5925.
Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light. Work 5919.
An official behind a glass screen and a factory gate at shift change, linocut print, deep focus stopped down. Work 5915.
A whitewashed travel agent's window full of posters in a courtyard with a fountain, the Concorde years, photographed in another country, timetable cover illustration. Work 5911.