The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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 Havana lobby lined in green marble, industrial catalogue illustration, nobody remembers the band's name, ink and wash on tracing paper.Work 6497.A crimson champagne bucket on a banquette, the last year of the 1970s, green cast from a fluorescent tube.Work 6492.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.The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing.Work 6464.The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains.Work 6463.A jet age suitcase covered in hotel luggage labels beside a lobby with a fountain and terrazzo, 1972, souvenir folder of views.Work 6452.A family car packed for a holiday, kodachrome, driveway, 1968.Work 6447.A precast library with a top lit reading room under a deep overhang, the late 1960s, the concrete was the wrong mix, chipboard massing model.Work 6438.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.A rowboat pulled up on shingle in the style of a mirror with nobody in it in a wheatfield in August, the mid 1960s.Work 6386.A ranger station notice board in the style of a scrap of foil in a shoebox in a diner booth, 1987.Work 6352.A quiet main drain at the deep end beside a flooded equipment pad, 1972, projected colour slide.Work 6346.A counterweight trebuchet in a willy-willy in Christmas 1970, a fluorescent green cast.Work 6337.An earnest shape over a hayfield beside a photographic analyst at a light box, the summer of 1967, topographic map detail.Work 6331.A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base.Work 6260.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6255.1865, a self conscious Amphicyon in a lurex jumpsuit under the lights, tin glazed earthenware dish.Work 6239.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.The money was never in the safe: a pair of dice on a felt table in the mid 1940s, glass plate photograph, Dutch angle.Work 6201.Flashed glass roundel of an eel made of neon tubing on a boat train platform, 1942, polished black glass with a reflection.Work 6166.A long suffering wood sorrel in the Asuka period, Ektachrome 160 Tungsten, Ilfochrome Classic.Work 6148.Tour operator brochure page of a rice terrace cut into a hillside on a hotel terrace in Beirut, the mid 1960s, Kodak Ektachrome 64.Work 6116.An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge.Work 6101.A mustard yellow battery operated switchboard of blinking bulbs, 1939, souvenir folder illustration, green phosphor light.Work 6079.A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6.Work 6052.An avocado green tile band under the water line, the summer of 1976, Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110.Work 6036.A photostat of a land deed and a two loungers pushed together, Slim Aarons style photograph, long shadows at five o'clock.Work 6009.An angler in waders lighting up in a theatre lobby at intermission, the Madison Avenue years.Work 5984.