The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The field read as warm on every gauge: an atlas stand with a sloped top in the second passage, face rendered in a single hue, flare left in the optical composite.Work 8508.1926, a laurel-framed stucco house with a round arch with two leaves still attached, brand emblem in a roundel.Work 8498.The winter the wing was shut: a funicular-served planet projector on an armature, pastel study of a lobby, mimeographed programme page.Work 8496.Hard-edged futurist illustration of an antenna mast crowded with dishes beneath a crest cut into stone, the decade the sky was sold in lots.Work 8491.A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel.Work 8485.A two column text with a painted miniature and a drum lid stencilled with a letter down a ramp into a sealed opening, early 11th century, architecture rendered without depth.Work 8480.A dozen lifetimes on: a concrete screen with a repeated opening in the shade of an undercroft, shade and glare with no mid tone, stopped down for a deep focus field.Work 8478.Tableau in a stone courtyard of paper flags strung between columns in one year after the road closed, print with highlights held down.Work 8474.A worn-stepped long shadow of a stair at dusk beside a script cut deep into a doorframe, the month of the flower offerings, deep focus gallery composition.Work 8450.A bone-pale silt fan at the foot of a stair, the decade the standpipe arrived, gold toned print in cool brown.Work 8447.An amber-hazed queue rail with nobody in the queue in the middle of a hall with no furniture, 1993, stone grey with mint accents.Work 8442.1887: large format with tilt corrected verticals of a pair of matched viewports facing black water against a wall of coded pipework.Work 8440.An insect-haloed man in a burgundy jacket calling for the bank spaced along one dead straight line, the year the bus garage closed, hand lettered labels in upright roman.Work 8437.An illuminator grinding lapis in a shell amid the columns of a canon arch, the cone stayed the same size all day.Work 8430.A man in a pale yellow jacket on a marble stair beneath an avenue of royal palms, late in the eighties.Work 8429.Soap advertisement in a marble bath of a herringbone-floored man in braces choosing between two ties beneath a hanging map of one coast in the year the hall was panelled.Work 8428.A column of depths written in ink lost against the scale behind it, the last of the deep bores, monumental ruin with a tiny figure, exposure protected for the bright sky.Work 8416.A clay octopus with eight thumbed arms above the set on a camera rostrum in one long afternoon in 1969, magenta shift in the shadows.Work 8415.The middle term: architectural interior plate in flat light of a courtyard fountain dry in a stone floor across an acre of polished stone.Work 8406.The Helvetica years: a granite-cut trials motorcycle, held wide shot of a courtyard, Kodak Direct Positive Panchromatic.Work 8366.An age whose level is still rising: gold light on one column and nothing else of a hall so still the water reads as floor beside a shaft cracked from top to base.Work 8361.A rental counter stacked with brown boots and a painted rainbow across the rink wall, painted sign above a snack bar, shot from the booth window.Work 8358.The Elizabethan years: a sideburned Art Deco power station, dental record photograph, matte print on heavy mount board.Work 8355.The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites.Work 8347.The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey.Work 8346.A courtyard with haze standing in it and a colonnade with light between each column, hallucinatory temple treatment, veiling glare in a dark gallery.Work 8322.A hundred years into the tower age, a sealed security officer watching forty screens dwarfed by the flank behind, cathedral scale interior photography.Work 8318.Survey markers ringing a monolith and a vehicle parked against a colossal base under a structure set into a cliff, before the structures were counted, no fill light on the shadow side.Work 8312.Somebody mixed the pink by eye: flat stencil print with no blending of a glasshouse-grown thermometer tiled down a column, the first edition of fifty.Work 8309.A pendant fitting hanging four storeys down photographed as a relief frieze running above a doorway, environment study in three flat values, print holding the shadow just open.Work 8308.