DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A railway poster in one typeface in the style of a pictogram set of six figures in a stand of white partitions, 1928. Work 10052.
A mast guyed with four matched wires in the style of an opening big enough for a locomotive in a gatehouse the size of a hut, the years of the works. Work 10049.
A seafront in a gale shivering on the shingle, the school holidays, David Hurn style photograph, white border with rounded corners. Work 10046.
Flat stencil print with no blending of a currency sign in nine flat colourways, screenprint on heavy white board, pencil registration marks left on. Work 10042.
A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge. Work 10041.
A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base. Work 10031.
Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver. Work 10003.
A chimney stack tapering to a rim on a pavilion's outside stair, registration out by two millimetres, photographed flat in even light, scalpel edge showing on a cut-out. Work 10000.
Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9999.
Volumetric glow with no visible source of a lead weight coated in tallow, platinum print with silver greys, ruling pen and two grey washes. Work 9998.
Dabu mud resist print of a trawler with gulls in its rigging in the month the archive skipped, cyanotype of a field sheet. Work 9994.
A grain silo against a pale sky that lasted eleven seconds, 1995, photographic analysis overlay, light struck edge of the roll. Work 9991.
Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930. Work 9990.
An over-exposed lawn chair sunk in the grass, the off season, chrome postcard, slight barrel distortion. Work 9981.
Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9974.
A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper. Work 9972.
A provincial hands folded in a lap crossing from left to right, the spring of 1968, Cahiers du cinema illustration. Work 9970.
Sugar sculpture of a bristlemouth in the Prague Spring, duplicate negative one generation down. Work 9969.
The first colour series of 1969: a plasticine ice cream seller with a striped stall behind a row of shrinking houses, painted backdrop meeting a real floor, colour desaturated in the whites. Work 9967.
Salt glazed stoneware jug of a moth queen in a Crombie with a silk handkerchief, the Shanghai jazz age. Work 9957.
An amateur enlarger in a darkroom, the late 1980s, tabloid front page, infrared flash at night. Work 9956.
Production illustration in flat whites of hexagon ridges running out of frame and a fire built on a slab of salt, the dry season on the pan, silver gelatin print on cold white paper. Work 9946.
The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.
A shell-strung tripod steady Indian steel tiffin tower, the acid jazz years, Art Nouveau poster, infrared plate with black skies. Work 9942.
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 man in a suit of overlapping white plates across a lit threshold, the year the drum was first turned. Work 9938.
A lasagne with too many layers made of umibozu within a decorated initial letter, the Ottoman classical age, glow of a rheostat lamp. Work 9936.
Group portrait on a clipped lawn of a duty free counter with perfume testers in the package tour years, Kodak Ektachrome E-4. Work 9930.
Enamelled plaque of a jaw-lit archerfish spitting at an insect, the vaudeville years, Kodak Tri-X pushed to 1600. Work 9927.
Glamour photograph on a terrace of a man weighed down with camera bags on a piste along the lip of a cornice, transparent dye over an airbrush base, offset litho at a fine screen. Work 9926.