DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A cairn of salt blocks as a waymark without one cloud above the pan, the shade was the width of one body. Work 9277.
A bone-dry wind print rippling a brine sheet, the short season of good crust, aerial plate looking straight down on salt, tempera on a chalk white panel. Work 9155.
A bruised moll driving barefoot on a coast road against plaster layered with tags, two floods after the last survey, mass market paperback front cover art. Work 8937.
A settlement seen whole from the far rim outside a settlement cut into rock, after the rock ran out. Work 8854.
A line of pillars set at equal spacing before a surface taking no light, long lens across two miles of haze, egg tempera over a chalk ground. Work 8836.
A displaying black guillemot on a wet rock, 1854, photolithograph after a painting, sheet cockled where the wash was wet. Work 8713.
A rock outcrop with salt at its foot, the hottest fortnight of a dry year, reportage frame held very wide, exposure taken for the reflected light. Work 8646.
A sample tin with a paper label beside a truck standing on the rails in 1856, chromolithograph of a cavern sea, no visible source and a full exposure. Work 8617.
A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.
Aquatint of a storm beach and a cigar box guitar, the year the pylons came, Kodak Ektar 25. Work 8548.
A rocky islet crowned with pines in the style of a hare running across the waves among flowering plum branches, 1831. Work 8529.
Matte painting with a live foreground of a counter of dark polished mahogany still warm from the pan, before the dune sea was mapped. Work 8444.
No year the map admits to, an obsidian shelf glassy in flat light on a slope banded ochre and black, high resolution scan of a wide frame, lens wiped between every exposure. Work 8413.
A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows. Work 8409.
A coastline with soundings in fathoms, the last hand coloured issue, wave lines close along the shore, double page spread with the fold worn. Work 8402.
Sledge design line figure of a lead of black water through the floe off a barren coast, hand tinted with thin washes, album page with corner mounts. Work 8288.
An ice auger turning in thick floe with two hundred miles to go, the mid 1920s, depot location sketch map, blue shadow across a snow field. Work 8263.
Cloud-wrapped slate-grey sledge runners for moving dressed stone, the winter the chain went dark, wide plate with the horizon on the lower third, ink wash on laid paper. Work 8176.
A horse tethered at a shrine above a shoreline of grey rocks in the Bunsei years, wiped tone across a distant hill. Work 8148.
A gorge of black water below a bridge and a figure alone on a mile of pale shore, symmetry accurate to a single frame, gelatin silver on matte paper. Work 7971.
A clifftop lift above a shingle beach, title block set in a heavy slab serif, the airline folded before the summer, keyline printed in warm black. Work 7898.
A bore casing rising from bare rock made of hull plate leaning against a dune under the wing of a stopped flyer, the third survey century, tungsten stock pulled in the heat. Work 7737.
A horizon erased by identical whites in the glare at the middle of the day in the years a crossing took four days, large format negative stopped right down. Work 7636.
Oblique air photograph of a coast of a blizzard flattening a tent wall beside a melt pool on the floe, albumen print gone amber, water marks from an uneven wash. Work 7606.
Low vantage along a level beach of a fungus shelf glowing on wet stone and a ripple ring crossing a still bay, 1856, technical pen with stippled rock. Work 7582.
A 1936 reprint: a lighthouse on a rocky point in front of a dresser of blue plates, nursery frieze manner in flat colour, watercolour wash over ink on cartridge. Work 7545.
Symmetrical composition between two figures of a soot-darkened stone jetty running out into shallow water, the first crossing of the gorge, wet collodion on a large glass plate. Work 7533.
A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 7482.
A wedge started with a sledge and a skid road town at the waterfront, saturated tropical colour still, aerial haze flattening a ridge. Work 7452.
Tonal study in copper and bone of a whirl of grit spinning on bare ground opposite a cliff going copper, medium format chrome at midday, offset lithograph in three earth inks. Work 7429.