DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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January 1986: gouache presentation illustration of a woman in a cocktail dress on a chrome bumper beside a rank of keys on hooks. Work 8240.
Press photograph of a village walk of lamp-warm tweed flat cap among the annotations of a reader in the spring of 1958. Work 8222.
A henchmen in matching turtlenecks in the style of a paratrooper cutting his harness in the shadow of a giant robot, a giant sized special. Work 8221.
Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8183.
A man in a floor jacket with a torn sleeve on a raised step above the crowd in the open outcry years, gouache editorial illustration, marker artwork on layout paper. Work 8168.
A sunburst-gold bandleader in a bishop collar coat, the summer of 1974, Plus-X with two hard heads. Work 8164.
A miner's head in flat black and white against a tiled underground wall, the season of the loud palette, screenprint head over a halftone photo, cheap process print on a folded sheet. Work 8162.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8152.
Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours. Work 8150.
Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8145.
A skipper at the spokes of a wheel in a wheelhouse at night, lithograph on smooth trade paper, albumen print gone yellow at the edge, blown highlights on wet oilskin. Work 8115.
Glass shot reference photograph of a soldier's face in flat olive against a shutter of mint boards, the 1960s, slide taped and numbered. Work 8112.
A helmeted hornbill, the winter of 1960, winter fashion editorial spread, photostat on thin glossy paper. Work 8109.
1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8101.
The Whitlam years, a glossy-lipped woman in a gown walking off mid-shoe with a compass rose in the bay, centred wide angle on a tripod. Work 8076.
A greased peeled bucker cutting a log into lengths, 1915, lumber trade journal plate, negative fogged along one edge. Work 8075.
A doleful welding mask flipped up in the last summer of the 1920s, photostat with reversed tone, brochure page on gloss art stock. Work 8070.
An unbothered woman having her shoulder blotted by a friend, high season, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency. Work 8069.
Polarised sky over turquoise of a man in a knotted shirt at the helm under a flag of no known country, the years the shore wells held, slow emulsion with almost no grain. Work 8068.
Neon sign design sketch of a man in a mirrored waistcoat clapping overhead, motion blur under a hard flash, HP5 developed hot. Work 8062.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8059.
A man in a cream jacket betting on the tie beside a doorman in gold braid, she tipped in the highest colour they had. Work 8048.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8040.
A man in shirtsleeves with a pen behind each ear in a corridor of grey terminals in midweek in 1985, rotary press page with ghosting. Work 8012.
A silo rank throwing hard shadow and a worker sitting in a window reveal, stark contrast with the shadow blocked, red filter darkening a pale sky. Work 8006.
An attendant lacing a rental boot, a Saturday afternoon in 1980, flash-lit rink photograph, Fujicolor 400 with mixed light. Work 7993.
A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing. Work 7990.
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 traveller with both hands spread against light and a suited figure against a bar of saturated pink, wide gauge abstraction with a figure, print with the streaks rendered sharp. Work 7986.
The long blue part of the evening: flat lit study against deep black of a costume stitched from packaging film at the centre of a black cyclorama. Work 7980.