DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A hot violet balloon tiled in clashing primaries, an unnumbered proof run, gloss patch where the ink pooled. Work 10301.
The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern. Work 10300.
A coal burning trawler with a tall funnel up a harbour on a rising tide, the herring season, pen study of a net mender, grey scale with no white in it. Work 10297.
A matting-floored crewman in a beaded collar leaning out black against an enormous sun, the tail of the 1960s, telephoto compression of a formation. Work 10296.
A catwalk around a dome base and a power line marching up a ridge on a catwalk at dusk, 1922, finding chart from a survey plate. Work 10294.
1836, an atlas stand with a sloped top through a yard in fog, underexposed foreground ballast, warm-toned bromide print. Work 10291.
A manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration. Work 10282.
A line of walkers strung out along a ridge photographed as a camp of low domes on hard ground, rotor plate taken over a dune field, screen print in five flat tones. Work 10273.
Epic landscape film still on large format of a cicada on a wet leaf answered from a summit far off, an age before the roads were named. Work 10269.
A crowd watching something out of frame, black and white, 35mm, grain. Work 10264.
A laid down on canvas magnetic variation lines across an ocean standing where the light ends, the second state of the plate, high contrast black and white. Work 10247.
A half-poured silo rank throwing hard shadow in the fourth construction decade, split-toned print with cool shadows, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 10244.
A cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate. Work 10242.
An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame. Work 10237.
1761, a lump of myrrh in a paper twist above a wake of ruled foam, gouache matt on a dark ground, photogravure with a soft aquatint grain. Work 10218.
Scherenschnitte papercut of a fruiting black woodpecker across a harbour mouth in a gale in the mid 1850s. Work 10217.
An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted. Work 10216.
A gravel spit running into a pan four days from either shore, the short season of good crust, 70mm widescreen plate on a white pan, five perf stock pulled one stop. Work 10207.
A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel. Work 10202.
Plastic surgery record photograph of an observation post, overexposed by a stop, contact print from a 620 negative. Work 10189.
A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s. Work 10184.
A well of dark air in bare rock beside a sailmaker's bench in the second survey era, vanishing point held on a straight edge, transparency on a light box. Work 10180.
Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper. Work 10179.
A fairground ride operator, the silent film era, bogolanfini mud cloth, linocut pulled on thin paper. Work 10176.
The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.
Two hundred years after the pour: a vent hood the size of a house beneath a walkway bridging two blocks, survey frame with the horizon level, photochemical print with a grey base. Work 10171.
The Taisho years: a cormorant fishing by torchlight inside a circular medallion, flat colour inside a firm outline, woodgrain showing through the sky. Work 10169.
A fledged moorhen stepping on a lily pad with the bill open in song, the age of the folio, wood engraving in the vignette manner. Work 10165.
A chain-wrapped carcass of a burnt-out sedan in the decade the roads went quiet, red filter darkening a grey sky, silver gelatin print on fibre paper. Work 10163.
A wet night in 1985: an organ bench with nobody on it beside a marquee on a lawn, motoring magazine road test frame, halftone at 175 lines on art stock. Work 10160.