DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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It smelled of cigarettes: gouache illustration on board of a riveted man in mirrored sunglasses indoors, the disco backlash. Work 10156.
Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw. Work 10057.
Sixteen-cell print on a single sheet of a paper-edged sunglasses repeated across a sheet, the last sheet of the batch, thumbprint in the margin of the sheet. Work 9979.
Still from a resort advertising film of a man in aviators asleep with a book on his face and a man in a yellow shirt hailing a water taxi, the summer nobody went home. Work 9552.
1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9394.
A man in a striped shirt on two handsets at once, stereo pair survey photograph, the record was left in the sun, contre jour. Work 9178.
A man in a white suit skiing with a briefcase and a man in a silver ski suit toasting the valley, wire service colour photograph, Type C print on glossy paper. Work 9113.
A crooked-pasted eclipse over a crowd with paper glasses in the 1920s, Efke R17, poster paper cracked along a fold. Work 9061.
Camel-coated two men in overcoats beside a low slung wedge, midweek in 1987, varnished dealer poster. Work 8826.
Reflection frame in a boat windscreen of a woman in a peach bikini holding a parrot beneath a hotel sign in script neon, a long weekend in 1984, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 8650.
The first season: a long-bonneted woman in sunglasses timing a run by hand, flashbulb photograph at a prize table, enamel sign finish in cream and mint. Work 8383.
A man in a bomber jacket carrying a boom box amid a scatter of dark gravel, the last years of the overland crossing, palette of bleached white and deep ochre, peel apart instant print. Work 8364.
A man in a coral shirt at a grill on a deck made of woman in a hot pink swimsuit on a high stand in a marina of gleaming hulls, an age counted in fallen giants, cross processed frame with a cyan shift. Work 8245.
A henchmen in matching turtlenecks in the style of a paratrooper cutting his harness in the shadow of a giant robot, a giant sized special. Work 8221.
Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8145.
Polarised sky over turquoise of a man in a knotted shirt at the helm under a flag of no known country, the years the shore wells held, slow emulsion with almost no grain. Work 8068.
Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a man in a checked shirt with three phones ringing under a haze of cigarette smoke, four decades under the upper city, frame with a raster line pattern. Work 7833.
A man in pastel loafers on a teak deck on a rooftop pool deck, pastel artwork fixed with a spray, print trimmed square with a guillotine, video frame from a broadcast master. Work 7703.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7638.
A horizon erased by identical whites in the glare at the middle of the day in the years a crossing took four days, large format negative stopped right down. Work 7636.
Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7626.
Repetition study in monochrome of a goggles pushed up on a forehead beside a brake press folding a panel, the last full production year, duplicator sheet with a double image. Work 7624.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7474.
Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7322.
A nine-strong clavinet player in gold sunglasses beside a woman in thigh-high silver boots, the first tour year, television music show frame. Work 7286.
A man in mirrored shades lighting a long cigarette photographed as a cider label with the yellow off the edge, silkscreen poster in four flat inks, broken type where the plate scratched. Work 7236.
Long lens compression across a flat of a well head ringed with poured concrete and a sealed desert suit standing in open sand, the quiet centuries, offset lithograph in four earth inks. Work 7039.
Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper. Work 6742.
Club logo in chrome lettering of a Lagos nightclub stage at a smoked glass table, the summer of 1979, harsh direct flash. Work 6205.
The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer. Work 6106.