DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes. Work 7482.
A slot in a cliff face with straight edges at the head of a worn approach, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, pigment print on a baryta surface. Work 7481.
A spa colonnade with palms in tubs on a quay of pale stone, the 1937 season, brochure cover in flat colour, airbrush over a masked frisket. Work 7480.
A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.
A fall lit from behind by nothing obvious beside a niche with a number over it, the stove smoke went up and vanished. Work 7478.
The artist was paid in return tickets: simplified poster silhouette of an ochre-sanded deck steward with a tray of ices, the 1931 winter season. Work 7477.
A woman in a gown with a plaque on her palm photographed as a figure lit magenta with a cyan shadow, police custody photograph, four colour halftone on art paper. Work 7476.
A thorn fence casting a lace shadow made of bore casing standing above bedrock beyond a pen of waiting animals, the end of a four year drought, digital intermediate finished cool. Work 7475.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7474.
Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall. Work 7473.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7472.
A mission tower with two bells beside a packing house town name, the town on the label has gone. Work 7471.
A tank hall with twelve columns lit, instructional manual illustration, the model was not on the standard list, deep black against a white wall. Work 7470.
The Basel school years: collage of coloured paper shapes of a correction marks in a margin inside a quarter circle. Work 7469.
A glinting woman serving with a ball tucked in a pocket beside a bell on the clubhouse wall, the August tournament, he broke the racket and won anyway, wire service photograph of a final. Work 7468.
An ordered potted palm in a brass planter beyond a colonnade of eight columns, the quiet tenancy, commissioning day interior record. Work 7467.
Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink. Work 7466.
The 1938 edition, a hobnailed mouse in a corn stook holding hands in a long line, woodcut with a bold black key line. Work 7465.
A unison-struck patchbay with cables hanging loose in five hundred summers from now, exposure set to hold the shutter marks, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 7464.
A reservoir with its feeder streams among hachured hills crowded together in the gatefold years, chromolithograph on a stout coated sheet. Work 7463.
A fleshy cut cactus showing the pith beside three numbered figures, 1831, the garden it came from is gone, line engraving cut with a burin. Work 7462.
A bead-hung bubble canopy filled with orange light beside a stack of fuel drums, the morning after the rain stopped, slow shutter rotor frame. Work 7461.
The century of the lifting beam: backlit smoke stage photography of a hot air ballooning against a rack of hi-fi gear. Work 7460.
A miniature forest under a bell jar, soft light, moss. Work 7459.
An ad blimp trailing light over stacked balconies, the season of the compulsory transfer, anamorphic interior with blind shadows, slow film on a heavy tripod. Work 7458.
A looming wall running straight for forty miles in after the last team went home, diffraction softening the finest edge, long exposure with the haze smoothed. Work 7457.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures and skeletons archival 16mm broadcast telelvision still kodachrome. Work 7456.
A baggage lashed under a woven net opposite the sun on a bare crest, somebody had painted the trees. Work 7455.
The first ten minutes of daylight, a raffle ticket book printed off the crop against a sky in flat bands, rescreened from an already printed page, ghost image below the sun. Work 7454.
Stillness photographed as ceremony of a crew of four on a terraced step and a comet tail, the season of the standing watch, size bloomed across the sky. Work 7453.