The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cairn of stones on a bare rock shelf along an arcade receding into haze, platinum print on smooth heavy paper, ink wash on damp-stretched paper, lamp light held for a full minute.Work 6750.The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows.Work 6744.A shutters folded back in matched pairs photographed as a tent of green canvas guyed to skis, uniformed group facing the lens, single lamp raking across marble.Work 6743.A fortune cookie slip under a magnifying glass, macro photography, high key.Work 6729.A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground.Work 6715.A flowering branch of a magnolia beside a collector's pencilled note in the 1840s, silver in the dark tones going brown.Work 6704.A brass lamp at each end of a table, sectional figure of a theodolite, a messenger waited all morning for it, chromolitho in ochre and pale mint.Work 6695.A crust flaking under a slow footfall in the margin beside its own paragraph, the plate was numbered out of order.Work 6689.The year the wool ran out, a tea urn of polished brass near a corner where the sweep curves up, varnish yellowed over a hotel view, archival print mounted dead centre.Work 6652.A petrol pump in four colourways and a subtropical glasshouse, over the shoulder of an examiner, letterpress plate with a caption block.Work 6641.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.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 repeated courtyard with a single tree beside a long dining table in a cold room, 1971, widescreen anamorphic frame.Work 6609.Engraved glass goblet of a badly framed single line token instrument at a marina slip in the autumn of 1964.Work 6595.Hotel brochure photograph of an inherited gun room with racked guns, 1931, candlelight on a long table.Work 6587.A funnel raked back against the sky on a rooftop terrace, demolished the following spring.Work 6585.Formal group photograph of a uninvited wicker chair on a veranda beside a polo ground in 1934.Work 6579.An uncorroborated index slip with a sighting number beside an overhead projector transparency, the summer of 1967, cropped and blown up frame.Work 6575.Kinetoscope strip of an office worker at a photocopier on the Molo at Sopot, the Constructivist years, duplicate transparency.Work 6563.A certificate of authenticity in a frame and a filing cabinet as an exhibit, institutional critique wall text, tripod at a fixed height each time.Work 6561.A model of an atom on a plinth photographed as a robot's chest with a printed meter, toy box lid illustration, ink flaking at the folded edges.Work 6555.The filter tip years: an expensive looking martini with two olives on a pick, progressive proof sheet, hand spotted dust on a print.Work 6552.Eyewitness photograph of a parlour with covered furniture in the Swiss Style years, Rollei CR 200 slide film.Work 6550.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 high contrast toy maker in the Art Deco years, mechanical vignetting, Polaroid SX-70.Work 6533.Saturated colour brochure photograph of a pavement cafe under an awning with fruit speared on a stick, the Concorde years.Work 6511.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.A glass of whisky on a case file on flat farmland, a night in the coming century.Work 6489.One inch Type C tape transfer of a sponsor approved vision mixer desk in a gallery, 1977, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6478.A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera.Work 6474.