The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A poorly lit akhlut, the Spanish Civil War years, wardrobe test Polaroid, a minute by streetlight.Work 6182.Feather mosaic of a cocktail garnished with a flower in a sheepskin coat with the fleece showing, the golden age of radio.Work 6177.An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie.Work 6163.A regiment of nutcrackers and a German cuckoo clock at the Minnesota State Fair, the Polaroid years, chromoxylograph.Work 6159.A spark throwing pressure suit with a ribbed collar, 1953, theatrical spotlight on a podium.Work 6145.A hi-fi console with the lid propped and a model with impossibly white teeth on a ski lodge terrace at dusk, the early 1950s, advertising contact sheet frame.Work 6133.A gone blue guerrilla fighter, the Silk Road centuries, Kodalith Ortho 6556.Work 6046.A Scottish ghillie, the turn of the 1950s, oil on canvas board for a cover, tempera on panel.Work 6042.A champagne bucket on a banquette, the peak of the disco boom, formal group photograph, hot spot on a sequin.Work 6041.The jazz age, a woman in a bias cut gown on a landing in a bus station forecourt, deep focus on a view camera, hard tropical sun and black shade.Work 5997.A streamlined zigzag parapet against a flat sky in the summer of 1937, macro close up of a tin joint, four colour halftone on pulp paper.Work 5994.Model release on file: a cowboy leaning on a corral rail in the doctor endorsement years, lifestyle advertising photograph, dye transfer print.Work 5992.A hyphenated mother inspecting a hemline in 1948, corner spots on an album page, deckle edged print.Work 5966.Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light.Work 5919.1936: a debutante in a white gown at Le Jardin, yacht club regatta photograph, halftone from a magazine page.Work 5878.An unsigned sarong, New Year 1920, Ilford HP4.Work 5874.Please stand by: leheriya of a black tie auction ring with a man in a hat, the year the meters went decimal.Work 5855.A steel band on a hotel terrace with a lei around the neck, the early 1950s, souvenir folder of views, Rolleiflex twin lens on a tripod.Work 5843.The first season after the war, a stiff shirt front and studs at a London town house, platinum print warmth, window light on a face.Work 5827.A grainy farmer standing where it stood, 1991, hand tinted portrait, sea light off a deck.Work 5823.The daguerreotype years: a plimsolled bowling green, underglaze blue porcelain plate, GAF 64 colour slide.Work 5820.The spring of 1979, a crimson woman kicking off a shoe with glitter on the shoulders, silkscreen poster.Work 5788.Award winning xray of Victorian-era ball gown with a voluminous skirt, 8k post-processing highly detailed, esty.Work 5721.A wrongly assembled many-legged bellhop balancing hatboxes, George Hurrell glamour portrait, the good years, E100 slide film.Work 5720.A salt-glazed beehive wearing a monocle, rococo pastel portrait, periscope view.Work 5706.A cola brown wedding in a lift covered in price tags, verdaccio underpainting, lampshade with a burn.Work 5692.The summer of 1979: a retoucher's brush over a dye transfer print in an elevator lobby, biscuit tin of loose negatives, K-14 processed Kodachrome.Work 5671.Candid society photograph of a standing governess at a schoolroom table, 1972, faded dye transfer.Work 5638.A hollow eyed skittish hákarl, the Reconstruction era, blurred distant figure photograph, Fuji FP-100C peel-apart.Work 5624.A school bus yellow sputnik-era stentor, Sigiriya fresco, retained for training purposes, back to camera.Work 5532.