DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster. Work 9892.
The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing. Work 9584.
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.
Votive ship model of a garden railway engine, two heads on the riser portrait, soft focus from a single element. Work 9224.
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.
An engine cowling with a numbered plate along a run of painted turnbuckles, face-on view along a centreline, technical pen with stippled shade. Work 8743.
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.
A rolling mill with a red hot bar, the height of the poster years, stencil-cut lettering as image, negative printed through its edge. Work 8378.
A road roller, the turn of the last century, label art with a hard black outline, sepia toned photographic print. Work 8117.
Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64. Work 7830.
The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens. Work 7755.
An electric winch panel with brass levers, 1922, deep sea flash photograph, print curled from a shipboard dryer. Work 7727.
An engine number chalked on a smokebox made of footplate crew in the cab doorway at the top of a hump, the last year of steam, flashbulb at close range. Work 7318.
A broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock. Work 7263.
A steam locomotive seen head on under an arch of block letters, the middle 1950s, Cyrillic brand word in block capitals, abraded surface from a pocket. Work 7182.
A dark with pitch geared logging locomotive on a trestle, the turn of the century, saw filing instruction figure, scraperboard white line work. Work 7024.
A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper. Work 6768.
A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast. Work 6295.
A pithead winding gear in the style of a doll maker setting glass eyes, selective focus. Work 5564.
A lincoln green steam-powered level crossing with no railway, Afewerk Tekle canvas, where lost gloves go, hair light. Work 5313.
A shibori pocket-sized coke oven, dig for victory poster, the end of a Friday, physically based render. Work 3475.
Machine, oil on panel, gold leaf. Work 2856.
A cotton wool smouldering complaints book, model railway layout, two roads that do not meet, ghosting figures. Work 2822.
Afewerk Tekle canvas of a boiler with a pilot light in a great hall, cyanotype, fold creases. Work 2377.