DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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Regional film archive still of a high-rise hotel behind the beach, interlace comb on movement, focus hunting. Work 10299.
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.
An ice factory chute on a quay and a sunspot sketch on a projection sheet, society transactions figure, panchromatic film under heavy cloud. Work 10289.
A dust storm covering a whole region, the third construction era, slow rotation held in one frame, 70mm plate with the grain suppressed. Work 10281.
A reprinted white-skied transformer core of laminated iron, an era before any road came, composition with the horizon set very low, cyanotype of an apparatus schematic. Work 10268.
Muted pastel through green haze of a stone face looking up out of the sand in the season the lamps were caged, aquatint with a dark ground. Work 10254.
A water carried in from the shore after the brine dried to a film, one blazing afternoon among hundreds. Work 10252.
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.
Scherenschnitte papercut of a fruiting black woodpecker across a harbour mouth in a gale in the mid 1850s. Work 10217.
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.
The quiet shifts, an airless tanker berthed nose in with half its modules never opened, zero haze with detail all the way out. Work 10206.
A boat sledge dragged over rough ice at a rookery ledge, 1903. Work 10197.
A rope-belted mooring buoy behind a curved white screen, the first winter of the 1910s, Stevengraph silk picture. Work 10173.
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.
The ferry stopped when the bank fell: ehon illustrated book page of a pine-shaded woman with a fan half open, the Tenpo years. Work 10167.
The early 1920s: stylised sunburst behind a peak of a lemon cut across the segments on a rocky coastal point. Work 10155.
A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt. Work 10153.
A rooftop sleeping platform near a shaft dropping six floors, axonometric of a cut settlement, tilted plane holding a facade sharp. Work 10123.
A ghost train facade photographed as a dal tadka, coastal erosion monitoring photograph, carbro print. Work 10121.
An aircraft settling onto a lit pad along a beam above the cloud line in some March a very long way ahead, tilt shift over a tower crown, window grid exposed for interior only. Work 10089.
A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand. Work 10087.
Backlit party against a paler haze of a sight glass with a red float inside and a sleepers laid on a pale beach, the year the lamps were fitted, brass lens with a soft edge. Work 10074.
Ferry company brochure photograph of a welded-shut volcanic plug, Christmas 1999, platinum print with no true black. Work 10069.
The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print. Work 10054.
The hottest month of a bad year: tonal study in copper and bone of a shell of a shelter open to the sky beyond the edge of the mapped route. Work 10050.
Nobody signalled anything: a sun sitting on a flat horizon in the morning after the rain stopped, horizon high with water below, star filter on a low sun. Work 10047.
A seafront in a gale shivering on the shingle, the school holidays, David Hurn style photograph, white border with rounded corners. Work 10046.
The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon. Work 10016.
Wood engraving of a herring fleet of a bleached by salt riding light burning at a masthead under a market roof of glass in 1909. Work 10011.
An open-air pool at Saltdean and a sanatorium staircase down to the sea, Free Cinema style documentary frame, thumb over the corner of the lens. Work 10002.