DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion. Work 10229.
A figure standing perfectly upright in the dust and an observer facing the slab for the whole shift, long lens across a flat pit floor, wide gauge print with the black held flat. Work 10148.
A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light. Work 9925.
Deadpan interior portrait of a brass-plated figure standing inside a ring of white tubes beside a corral rail in the third rotation season. Work 9296.
The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure. Work 9175.
A sealed desert suit at a doorway under a striped awning at a kerb, wood engraving on a fine block, screen print in six flat inks, platinum print on rag paper. Work 9075.
A movie poster for a western nobody made, painted illustration, dust and sun. Work 8930.
The summer nobody went home: colour supplement travel feature of a man in a straw trilby at the wheel of a tender at the rail of a corniche road. Work 8853.
Swimwear catalogue page in flat light of a man in a cream fedora under a neon sign up against a support post, the winter of 1993, halftone of a flash print on newsprint. Work 8790.
A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all. Work 8503.
A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.
Ghost hunting infrared still of a nahual halfway between jaguar and man down a ramp of polished white, the age of the pager, Kodachrome 200. Work 8422.
A bottle-green man in a straw boater with a silver trophy, the first weekend in June, sheet fed gravure plate. Work 8345.
He led every lap and said nothing: silhouette study of a wound headcloth of a brick-red field of scarecrows all turned the same way, the railway mania years. Work 8135.
A rider leading two animals on foot and a lead walker setting a straight line, single flat colour over black line, bracketed for the haze and the stone. Work 8050.
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.
Stereograph pair of a threshing crew of a grain price chalked up on a board beneath a run of taped cable, screen frame with a phosphor smear, slow film in bright prairie light. Work 7852.
A taotie, study of one silhouette lit from behind, the guard blew the whistle and laughed, film pushed in the tank by guesswork. Work 7633.
Portrait print with the colourway wrong of a cowboy actor's head in poison green in a portrait sitting of ten minutes, registration cross left in the margin. Work 7518.
Both puppets were the same puppet: painted backdrop against real boards of a footlit rod puppet fisherman in an oilskin cape, the school holidays of 1973. Work 7499.
A walker leading a loaded animal and a block being lashed with wet cord, long lens compression over flat salt, print with the highlight clipped flat. Work 6937.
A movie poster for a western nobody made, painted illustration, dust and sun. Work 6856.
The front room before the move: Hyalotype lantern slide of a lace edged tombstone carver, harvest time 1968. Work 6632.
An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400. Work 6325.
Colour rotogravure advertisement of a hand lettered ranch hand striking a match on a thumbnail, 1959, Fujichrome transparency. Work 6286.
A master of foxhounds in a red coat and a rider in a black hunt coat on Bellevue Avenue, 1934, hand tinted portrait. Work 6250.
Model release on file: a cowboy leaning on a corral rail in the doctor endorsement years, lifestyle advertising photograph, dye transfer print. Work 5992.
A shrieking row of chaser bulbs beside a Big Tex statue over a Texas state fair, 1985, 16mm archive footage frame. Work 5892.
Magazine back page in gravure of a salesman fanning three packs on a counter at a corral rail in early light, large format studio strobe, bank of hot tungsten lights. Work 5865.
The mid 1970s, a fishermen mending a net by a lake in flat light, lamp flare into the lens, printed one stop down. Work 5715.