The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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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.The summer of the long mooring: a beam-lit line of eight stewards facing the lens, dead centre one-point interior exposure, rotogravure in a single brown ink.Work 7181.A rhinestoned spaceship gangway with the band on it with a wind machine going, the second album year, fat slab type with a gold rim.Work 7180.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7179.Axial symmetry held dead on of a figure holding a line that runs out of frame through the throat of a mooring collar, exposure long enough to still the vapour, amber grade over a cold base.Work 7178.A family car packed for a holiday, kodachrome, driveway, 1968.Work 7177.The week the shells arrived, a glassy figure with the hands hidden in shell finished in six coats of lacquer, study of texture at three distances.Work 7176.A narrated concentric rows of seats under a dome, 1956, copperplate figure of an armillary, star images spread by movement.Work 7175.Cordon apples in a single row in a basket carried on one arm in 1907, soil thumbed into the margin.Work 7174.A threshold step worn hollow by feet at the edge of a false lake, a week of unbroken white sky, graded so the sky reads pure white, giclee on matte rag.Work 7173.A tiered terrace with a single doorway and a survey peg beside a wall, high angle over a complex, underexposed for a stone interior.Work 7172.The age of the wedge and the sled: an inspection gallery under a road deck along an avenue of seated figures, heavy chiaroscuro under a gate vault, ink and wash over a scribed underlay.Work 7171.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7170.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7169.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7168.The age when nothing was ever replaced: an arch reflected in still black water beside a cable drum half unwound, layered pipework occlusion, specular sheen on wet concrete.Work 7167.A caravan park in the off season, kodachrome, flat light.Work 7166.A figure in a train of moss and rope among boulders mapped with lichen in a decade of quiet ground, 5x4 transparency on a level tripod.Work 7165.Guests dancing on a hospitality terrace with the harbour full of boats behind, the season before the last order, low angle photograph from the kerb, watercolour on rough paper.Work 7164.Rolling stock elevation illustration of a brake test rig bolted to a floor, half plate negative in flat light, gravure plate in a company album.Work 7163.A portcullis of iron-shod timber and a hawk circling below the tower floor beneath a hanging valley, the long peace under the towers, vertical composition emphasising height.Work 7162.A chipped enamel whitlow bandaged with tape in the seventh transit, print struck for a single dominant hue, all middle tones and no black.Work 7161.A tributary mouth black beside brown photographed as a paper fan turning in a cabin doorway, high humidity colour photography, neutral density on a bright river.Work 7160.Oil sketch of a prize vegetable of a carrot pulled with the top still on under a wooden label in pencil, 1900, cover foxed at all four corners.Work 7159.The years of the sixty figures: full page miniature with a bar frame of a corbels holding a road over a drop under an arcade of slender columns.Work 7158.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 7157.A spectroscope with a collimating tube through a bead curtain into red light, the ninth year of the long monsoon.Work 7156.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7155.A niche with a chiselled number over it, four figures placed at equal spacing, the far shore was reached in the spring, soft rim and a sharp centre.Work 7154.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 7153.