DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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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 cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate. Work 10242.
A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail. Work 10118.
Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out. Work 10063.
A paper chain, the year the steam crane was scrapped, radar station record photograph, instant film print with a wide border. Work 10029.
The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film. Work 9997.
A rain tank with a padlocked tap at a fuel dump out on the pan, the third year without rain, time-lapse frame, rack focus through the dust. Work 9987.
The upper floors were never opened: competition illustration in flat wash of an implacable cooling stack venting into dry air, the fourth construction decade. Work 9959.
The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.
The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s. Work 9708.
A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze. Work 9685.
The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.
Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.
A crematorium chimney through a glass wall three storeys high, carbon transfer print, stone lithograph with a tint plate. Work 9364.
Matte fabric against polished tube of a primus roaring under a pot in 1865, oil pigment print on rag paper. Work 9251.
A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art. Work 9249.
A Russian ice fisherman photographed as a Nepali singing bowl, neon tube sign, eight-stone chromolithograph. Work 9192.
An autumn a hundred summers ahead, a badged smog sea with tower tops as islands with a landing pad strobing above, optical composite with a painted sky. Work 9027.
Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963. Work 8868.
The tea can boiled on the way out: a tank engine in faded oxblood livery in an unrecorded season, centred locomotive elevation, shift lens holding a signal upright. Work 8864.
A thunderhead above a dry range, label art with a hard black outline, the crate was broken up for kindling, nail hole through one corner. Work 8831.
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.
A water tank on a wooden trestle on a dome catwalk rail, developer streak down the frame, photogravure of a nebula plate, dense sky fog across a corner. Work 8731.
Miners gala souvenir print of a downcast shaft in cold air under a chimney by the boiler house, the last year of hand hewing, ferrotyped gloss print. Work 8730.
An ash falling through a light beam behind drifting green smoke, the smoke chose a direction. Work 8717.
A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence. Work 8694.
A wordless rain steaming off hot leaves, an unrecorded week, bloom around every smoke column. Work 8687.
The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn. Work 8620.
A passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner. Work 8607.
A bay-deep drip line falling from a vault rib in an age of one drip and no other sound, magnesium flash used once in a dark bay, charcoal with a stump on laid paper. Work 8562.