The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate.Work 6706.The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre.Work 6702.A simplified bevel gears at right angles, 1919, spearfishing magazine cover, linen tracing with the ink still glossy.Work 6698.A tide dropping a trawler in a berth under a lighthouse on a pier, orthochromatic plate in sea haze, thin underexposed negative, litho poster in flat greys.Work 6665.The geophysical year of 1958, an unlit air hose tended by hand recovered on the second attempt, cine film frame enlargement.Work 6659.Relief carving rendered in flat light of a water lying level on both sides of a road along a band of colour running to a point, colour negative with no correction at all.Work 6658.Steel engraving with a ruled sea tint of a pencil marked isotherms across a continent, 1839, sheet with an old library label at a corner.Work 6637.A rocks glass with a twist of lemon peel laughing at something off camera, the filter tip years, full bleed magazine page, two point perspective from the corner.Work 6628.A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement.Work 6620.Watercolour of a country house of a society photographer with a Rolleiflex on a hotel terrace above the sea, the early 1930s, deckle edged print.Work 6619.A first class hydrofoil crossing a bay, the package tour years, luggage label design, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon.Work 6618.The camera ran out: an ice cream van on the promenade in 1985, Soviet sanatorium poster, back-lit by the sea.Work 6602.New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s.Work 6578.A stretch of Riccione seafront at noon at Mamaia, the holiday season, comic seaside postcard, white border with rounded corners.Work 6570.Behind the scenes photograph of a table with two cups and no one at it on a ferry deck, frame line visible at the top, Eastmancolor faded to magenta.Work 6538.A movie poster for a disaster at sea, painted illustration, 1956.Work 6514.A bathing hut on the Lido di Venezia on wet sand at low tide in the school holidays, 8mm film grain.Work 6509.A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows.Work 6508.Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3.Work 6505.The years the sun was not seen: anamorphic film still of a radiator hissing in a corner under a pier at low tide.Work 6495.A porter carrying two cases up steps aboard a liner at sea in the first season after the war, web offset brochure printing.Work 6487.A cheerful stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a concrete balcony above the sand, the school holidays, public information film frame.Work 6481.An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element.Work 6467.A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky.Work 6465.2026: a lighthouse that rotates the landscape instead of the beam in a sweet shop, canal boat signwriting, salt print.Work 6454.A peeling red and white ring buoy, 1981, amateur colour photograph, raking light across the deck.Work 6444.1932: a formwork stripped from a column at a mullion joint, conservation survey photograph, flat even overcast light.Work 6434.A cheese cave, constructed narrative photograph, it faded where the sun hit, Agfa Brovira paper.Work 6431.A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam.Work 6425.1936, an underdressed tender coming alongside with the sea behind, Rolleiflex portrait.Work 6424.