DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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Streamline poster with speed lines of an airbrushed bill poster with a brush and bucket inside a booking hall in the coronation summer. Work 10295.
Sky heavy widescreen frame of a drum of diesel with a hand pump, bounced light off white canvas, long lens with heavy compression. Work 10034.
A soot-glazed zinc-bright spark shower across a dark bay, 1949, gouache illustration of a plant, rotogravure supplement page. Work 10006.
A red-leaded wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the herring season, stencil paint on a wooden box end. Work 9797.
A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 9675.
A pellet plant balling drum and a blast furnace with a bustle pipe, stereograph of a rolling mill, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9462.
A soda lime canister in a cradle in a survey leg at night, hand tinting over a monochrome print, echo trace inked on wet paper, Tri-X at the limit of the flash. Work 9245.
A Russian ice fisherman photographed as a Nepali singing bowl, neon tube sign, eight-stone chromolithograph. Work 9192.
A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock. Work 9056.
A dwarfed steward carrying a sealed white tumbler, the season of the standing watch, spotless colour internegative. Work 8973.
A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.
Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought. Work 8886.
Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film. Work 8813.
Zanfirico glass vase of a company-issued livery stable against a stencilled hazard band in the spring of 1941. Work 8801.
A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil. Work 8736.
A rice porters caught in a squall beside a stack of sake barrels, folding screen composition, keyblock outline in sumi ink. Work 8726.
The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights. Work 8612.
A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens. Work 8599.
A finder tube clamped parallel to a barrel, the winter the gearing was recut, measured elevation in ink and wash, watercolour wash over a ruled ink figure. Work 8542.
Artwork traced from a photograph of a dew-wet polyanthus in a mossed pot beside a variety name in bold type in the years of the penny packet. Work 8456.
The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page. Work 8349.
A barograph trace on a slow drum beyond the last town light in the late 1890s, lithograph in two inks. Work 8323.
The 1990s: ajrakh block print of a resonance tube with a tuning fork along a street of painted fronts. Work 8251.
Tripod plate at a small aperture of a brush laid across a paste pot rim in the week of the inspection, photogravure plate in a portfolio. Work 8246.
Ruling pen border with corner flowers of a grocer weighing sugar on brass scales and a bird nest with four speckled eggs, a 1936 reprint, tipped in colour plate with a tissue. Work 8035.
The bell was lowered on the hour: a flowering stem of a chicory in a summer that was never recorded, haze made visible in straight beams, salt-spotted silver gelatin print. Work 7531.
The years of the mechanics institutes, a referenced flywheel storing energy as seen through the eyepiece, rays ruled with a straight edge. Work 7414.
The dust years, a boot pit at the bottom of the leg under a portable auger, rotogravure section page, exposure set for the highlights. Work 7340.
1902, a wide-leaded feed board with a pile of sheets set upside down and back to front, machinery advertisement engraving. Work 7298.
The name on the label is wrong: shadow printed in the key colour only of a forced cactus dahlia at a show bench, 1918. Work 7123.