DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.
A glove in six clashing colourways across a proof with a cell missing in the first edition of fifty, staple holes at the top corner. Work 7823.
A cook shack with a long stovepipe, documentary film frame in monochrome, they burnt the slash in September, matte black set surround cropped tight. Work 7820.
A long-standing hollyhock against a fence, just after the war, letterpress on unbleached stock. Work 7819.
A pilgrim resting on the lowest step below the broken roof of a tower in the time of the nine towers, perspective set on the road's centre line, pigment print on cotton paper. Work 7809.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7802.
Pushed monochrome night photograph of a steel door with a kicked panel through a puddle on a yard slab, the last month of the tenancy, reversal film with crushed blacks. Work 7800.
A vertical sign stack four storeys high, the Suez crisis, tactile close view of rubber and fur, Diana plastic lens. Work 7798.
1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7789.
Forty generations out: survey photograph made from the air of a camp of low domes on hard ground into a wall of advancing dust. Work 7778.
A grey band along a photocopied edge and a stencil cut from thin cardboard, flattened halftone of a halftone, cut and pasted then shot on the glass. Work 7774.
A hoof-printed marker of stones on a crest, the age of the loaded animal, figure rim lit by a distant lamp, grain lifting in the shadow side. Work 7771.
A driver in a short sleeve shirt at speed inside a canvas paddock tent in high summer of 1963, long lens at 400mm on a hairpin. Work 7764.
Canopy treated as architecture of a bowl passed from hand to hand, sepia ink wash on laid paper, box splinter stuck to the reverse. Work 7762.
The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.
A bathtub with a whale tail above a valley of ruled fields, engraved plate impression on wove paper, archival print on museum board, panoramic negative on 617 stock. Work 7742.
Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 7741.
Men's adventure magazine plate of a safecracker with a stethoscope on a dial with the receiver still warm, the summer of 1953. Work 7740.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7739.
The last sheet of the batch: cross-hatching in the deepest shadow of a roller repeated across a sheet between two rows of the same image. Work 7732.
Black and white lineside snapshot of a work-stained coaling tower over a tender on a colliery branch in 1788. Work 7731.
Closure record photograph of an alien cathedral grown from bone-white coral on the lip of a quiet crater, the flared trouser years, broadcast frame with chroma bleed. Work 7728.
Silhouette vignette with a thin rule of a halogen-lit man in a tailcoat serving from a silver dome, early eighties, flash fall-off into deep black. Work 7726.
An unjustified kiosk column with three sheets at forty-five degrees to the edge, 1919, nobody kept the original layout, constructed photogram. Work 7720.
1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 7717.
A rose patterned shadow of a tower across a courtyard in the winter of 1961, matte bromide print, Fujichrome with the greens forward. Work 7712.
Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light. Work 7709.
A pit boots left by a doorstep with a snap tin on a prop, the year of nationalisation, picture magazine photo essay, platinum print of a pit yard. Work 7708.
Rim lit steelwork study of a toe board along a walkway below a strobe strapped to a truss, toner blown photocopy on thin stock, ink on linen with stencilled titles. Work 7702.
Wide view of a town two metres across of an order form with pencilled quantities along a trial ground in bloom, four months of evenings in 1969, off air recording of a model feature. Work 7700.