DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A line walked into a field of grass left to weather, 1984, measured site plan, bare bulb in a basement. Work 10262.
A courier riding a straight road at dawn, the long flood age, monumental emptiness on a paved road, orthochromatic plate with a deep filter. Work 10231.
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 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 bagel with a cloud of cream cheese after the wind dropped to nothing, signal station photograph, cold-toned print in a blue grey. Work 10141.
A gang of six hauling a cable drum under a vault streaked with salt, two floods after the last survey, torch beam as a compositional line, volumetric beam from a single hand lamp. Work 10110.
A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain. Work 10109.
A fuller's earth blown over a set made of flash trimmed off with scissors in a landscape two metres across, a fortnight in 1964, flicker under unmatched photofloods. Work 10099.
A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge. Work 10041.
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 stripped back hill town with a church on top with a balloon on a string, the grunge years, factory inspectorate record photograph. Work 10028.
A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground. Work 10010.
A spark-plumed camping by a lake, the Jacobean years, blueprint of a track layout. Work 9995.
The subject was changed: hand painted bus livery of a Dralon chirashi bowl, glasnost. Work 9928.
A spray-flecked orange grove with a white farmhouse, the first postwar summer, poster proof with registration marks, poster paint up to a ruled edge. Work 9904.
Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border. Work 9868.
A haze-flattened line of pylons marching to the horizon trailing a plume a mile long, after the last well was capped, bleach bypass with a hard shadow. Work 9820.
It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge. Work 9756.
The second station generation, a capsule rising past a station flank against a stencilled hazard band, film exposed for the sunlit hull, print developed for maximum black. Work 9739.
A surface pitted by years of blown grit in the style of a truck in faded mint with brass lamps beyond a haze horizon of flat ground, four months of evenings in 1969. Work 9736.
A road cut through a rock spur under sand drifted over paving, graduated filter across the far mist, oil on panel with thin glazes, slight halation around the lit edge. Work 9682.
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 freshly painted red grain truck alongside a combine, 1942, orthochromatic sheet film. Work 9665.
A cloisonné hairpin and a Quaker meeting house, long lens shot from the gallery window, flaking emulsion. Work 9647.
A slab burner cone against the sky among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1944. Work 9602.
The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.
A petrol station in the middle of nowhere, kodachrome, heat haze. Work 9558.
A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky. Work 9500.
A level crossing gates of matchwood and tweezers holding a tiny sign, wide view of a town two metres across, lettering printed onto the frame. Work 9454.
A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.