The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A woman in a wrap dress, Warhol style silkscreen portrait, the bar stopped serving at four, harsh direct flash.Work 6475.A gun room with racked guns by a hand-painted depth marker in 1931, rotogravure ink.Work 6449.The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light.Work 6422.Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear.Work 6412.The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948.Work 6404.A presentation rendering pinned to a board and a terracotta panel with a stylised palm, pencil and wash study, tempera on panel.Work 6402.An autumn thirty years from now: a chrome-trimmed records office of paper stacks, gouache concept rendering, venetian blind gobo across a wall.Work 6396.Graphite marks on a wall of a site specific slide projector on a stand, 1966, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6374.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 6364.A perfume bottle with a frosted stopper and a floor mosaic with a zigzag border in a first class dining hall, 1938, airbrushed travel poster.Work 6361.Aircraft register photograph of a knitting machine with a half sock on New Year's Day, the year the signal box closed, wallet print.Work 6343.A feathered woman in a Halston dress in the first months of 1981, 35mm lens close to the subject, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6336.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.Gouache advertising illustration of a frost rimmed register marks in the trim margin at a country club bar in 1957.Work 6326.An organ player on a jingle session and a razor pulled through shaving foam, network feed frame, varnished poster stock.Work 6322.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.1965: a ring binder of typed pages in a seminar room, site photograph with a scale figure, Kodak Plus-X print.Work 6296.A sweating shoe left under a table in a nightclub bathroom, the summer of 1980, Tod Papageorge style photograph.Work 6290.Photo of a flying Guitar, Clementine Hunter painting, peeling paint, single window.Work 6282.A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam.Work 6249.Liner company brochure illustration of a cocktail bar with a backlit onyx panel and a barber pole beside a chrome doorframe, 1925, perspective corrected verticals.Work 6245.A row of fruit machines, 1978, town guide photograph, tape dropout across the frame.Work 6210.1935: a chromed tentacled thing behind a saucer port, tabletop model photograph, coloured gel on the background.Work 6209.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.Nobody says why they came: a soldier checking papers in 1965, handheld 16mm frame, available light at dusk.Work 6165.An enlarged tape recorder on a kitchen table, 1995, stereo pair comparison plate, blown up past the grain.Work 6153.A spark throwing pressure suit with a ribbed collar, 1953, theatrical spotlight on a podium.Work 6145.An off duty soda fountain with a rocket mural with a lit dome for a head, the space race, plaster cast documentation photograph.Work 6136.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 patron asleep at a counter on the far side of a rain curtain, mixed colour temperature, practical lamps in frame, HMI through a rain bar.Work 6126.